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• 05 jui 2019

  Call for papers - Modern

  Killing the fathers: Women behind the camera on home movies

  The Study day « Killing the fathers : Women behind the camera on home movies » proposes a collective reflection on amateur images produced by the family.  By affirming and perpetuating the family institution in its patriarchal, nuclear and heterosexual configuration, the home movie has thus contributed to reproduce the bourgeois codes and hierarchies of gender and sexuality. By conceiving amateur cinema as a “technology of gender” (De Lauretis, 1987), we welcome papers on amateur images made by women to uncover and analyse their own “familial gaze”.

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