ModaPalavra: Fashion and Iberian-Latin-American Cinema (Nov 2018)

Website: ModaPalavra
Deadline for submissions: 16 November 2018

Guided by gender and postcolonial studies, this dossier is an invitation to value the representation of the latin Other in the globalized intercultural dialogue, reproduced and/or re-signified within fashion and film cultures contemporary art. Latin America - including socio-cultural, political and economic contexts linked to Iberian-Latin-American visual culture - historically constituted as a space perceived as relatively homogeneous by Europe and the United States throughout the 20th century, mainly through forms of display and stylization of identities that are pretentious to recognition,  as well as collective representations incorporated into the individuals divisions of the social world and organized, through of body and symbolic appearance, perception schemes based on certain racial, ethnic, generational, class, gender and/or sex. In this sense, works that are in tune with all the primacy of contemporary fashion in the era of the image and with the rich Ibero-Latin American cinematographic production will be welcomed, fields that can approach to reveal how hierarchical and unequal cultural models of identification they enter the scene to (de) construct imaginaries and challenge mentalities in the light of new looks, places and other perspectives.

Organization: Alberto da Silva (Paris-Sorbonne) and Daniela Novelli (UDESC)

Publication will occur in July 2019.

We accept articles in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Further details are available at the website.