Screening Sex

Series Editor(s): Darren Kerr, Donna Peberdy

Screening Sex is a series of monographs and edited collections exploring the relationship between sex, culture, politics, identity and screen representation.

The series aims to be a public-facing academic collection that is aware of the commercial value of accessible discourse and debate when exploring the politics of sex on screen. The series builds on and extends the valuable work undertaken by the Screening Sex network (https://screeningsex.com), while also supporting the development of original work and perspectives on familiar topics from new writers and early career researchers.

The series scope and approach encourages a broad range of critical, contextual and cultural methodologies relating to sex on screen, drawing on cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research as well as encouraging intersectional observations and approaches. The range of critical approaches covered across the series will often be determined by the proposed theme. Besides analytical considerations of representational strategies, the series also gives space to examine the scope and change seen in industry practice, spanning production techniques, changing modes of exhibition and new strategies of distribution. The central argument throughout the series is to address the importance of confronting, examining, challenging and re-framing social and cultural perceptions of sex in a meaningful and engaging way.

Length:

Titles in the series will be between 60,000 and 80,000 words.

Format:

Both monographs and edited collections will be considered for the series. Most of the books in the series will be somewhere between a textbook and a monograph in that they will introduce or synthesise (and may also intervene in relevant ways in) a subject area aimed at students with little or no prior knowledge of the subject, whilst being based on original scholarly research which makes a notable contribution to the subject. Books in the series will take the title format, Screening Sex: [Book topic]

Editorial Board:

Peter Alilunas, University of Oregon
Clara Bradbury-Rance, King’s College London
Lynn Comella, University of Nevada
Elena Gorfinkel, King’s College London
John Mercer, Birmingham City University
Mireille Miller-Young, University of California Santa Barbara
Gary Needham, University of Liverpool
Hoang Tan Nguyen, University of California San Diego
Susanna Paasonen, University of Turku
Julian Petley, Brunel University
Clarissa Smith, University of Sunderland
Linda Williams, University of California Berkeley

Submit your proposal:

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