Please Post. > The Velvet Light Trap > CALL FOR PAPERS > >TRANSGENDERED MEDIA >Recently, transgender studies has made its way into the academy as an area >of inquiry. What are its connections to cultural studies, gender studies, >queer theory, social activism, studies in human sexuality and medical >discourse and technology? How is this new field of inquiry taken up within >the discipline of media studies? How might transgender articulations be >dependent upon the convergence of emerging genders and media technologies? >Reconceptualizing media technology and gender in this age of convergence >seems to be crucial to the discussion of transgender. Transgender studies >may indeed be about developing discourses around new media, new bodies and >embodiments, forms, spaces, interfaces . . . > >Submissions might address questions of representation of transgendered >people and production of transgender media. Topics include, but are in no >way limited to: (trans)gender in cyberspace = cybersex + phone sex = >interface theory = gender b(l)ending = cross gender identification and >spectatorship = phallic women and "deadly dolls" = Hollywood crossdressing >= tomboys and family tv = new arts/new genders = transgender activism and >alternative technologies. > >The Austin editors of The Velvet Light Trap >are also planning a future issue on: > >FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVALS >Approaches to this subject can be various. We welcome papers from film and >video makers as well as from film and video scholars, and embrace the >prospect of an eclectic mix of submissions. > >Possible topics include: >women's film festivals and feminist praxis = the impact of film festivals >on film canons = Cannes and post-war Europe = queer film and video-beyond >the ghetto = festivals, the independents, and Hollywood = video festivals >and television = festivals and "Third World" cinema = reframing diasporic >cinema = showcasing multi-media = festivals as a social event = the >politics of jury prizes = festivals and film and video distribution = the >history of festivals. > >Deadline for submissions is February 15, 1997 > >Please submit three copies of a >publishable manuscript in MLA style to: > > The Velvet Light Trap > Deptartment of Radio-Television-Film > CMA 6.118 > University of Texas > Austin, TX 78712 > Janet Staiger Professor of Radio-Television-Film Director, College of Communications Senior Fellows Program University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712 USA 512-471-6653 (office) 512-329-5104 (home) 512-329-5144 (home fax) [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]