CFP::" Freaks" in Comparative Male Cinematic Portraiture. (09 15 2001;
NEMLA 04/ 12-13 2002)
Chair:: William Alejandro Martin
Type of Session: Traditional Panel (3-4 participants)
Listing:: Comparative Film as Text for Male Portraiture.
One sentence description: The parade of male heterosexual freaks which
have come to the fore in many contemporary Western films is a motley crew
unified in their search for male identity through obscene fixations with
ontological objects that substitute for real emotional exchange or, actual
dialogue about what forces shape and control the way males produce, as w
ell as, document what male portraiture is.
Rationale:
The ideological potentiality inscribed in the cinema of, among others,
Godard, Lynch, Tarskotsky, the Coen Brothers and Cronenberg, has already
been examined by critics as varied as Frederic Jameson, Gilles Deleuze,
Joan Copjec, David Leverenz, Linda Williams, Slavoj Zizek, Theresa Mulvey,
and Lawrence Grossberg. What has been of less importance in contemporary
cinema dialogue is hypothesizing about the importance of what might be
categorized as the parade of male heterosexual freaks standing at the core
of films such as Fight Club, American Beauty and Snatch which personify
the dysfunctional symptomology of contemporary male representation. A
conundrum of male personae unified by virtue of their despairing pursuit
for an identity that has been erased, that has, for one reason or another,
become impossible.
Of interest to this panel are investigations of male portraiture which
empathize obscene male fixations with ontological objects which substitute
for genuine emotional exchange. And how prejudicial meta-dialogues shaping
and controlling Nationalistic mythologies effect what constitutes male
portraiture as such. Papers dealing with the cultural approaches of
critics such as Mark Kingwell, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze (& Felix
Guattari), Theresa de Laurentis, Elizabeth Grosz, Peter Murphy, Slavoj
Zizek, Pierre Bourdieu and David Leverenz are especially welcome.
Contact information: William Alejandro Martin
Office Address: Dept of English, McMaster University (CNH 320)
1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - L8S 4L9
Academic Affiliation: McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Phone: (905) - 525 - 6739
E-Mail: martinwa@mcmaster.ca, grammar23@hotmail.com
FAX: (905) - 777 - 8316
William Alejandro Martin
Doctoral Candidate, Dept. of English
McMaster University
905 - 525 - 9140 ex. 24491
Vice President, McMaster Un. Graduate Student Assn.
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