[ecrea] Call for Papers: Cine-Excess VI: Transglobal Excess: The Art and Atrocity of Cult Adaptation - 24th-26th May 2012

Call for Papers



The 6th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film 
Traditions Presents



Cine-Excess VI:

 TRANSGLOBAL EXCESS: THE ART AND ATROCITY OF CULT ADAPTATION



24th-26th May 2012,

Odeon Covent Garden & The Italian Cultural Institute, London



Over the last 5 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference and 
Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with global 
cult filmmakers. Cine-Excess comprises of a 3 day conference alongside 
plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and 5-7 UK theatrical premieres of 
up and coming cult releases. The event also features its own dedicated 
DVD label, with recent releases including the official UK Blu-ray 
release of Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977). More recently, Cine-Excess 
staff assisted with the new director’s cut of Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal 
Holocaust (1979), in conjunction with UK distributor Shameless Films.



Previous guests of honour to the annual Cine-Excess event have included 
John Landis (An American Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers, Trading 
Places), Roger Corman (The Masque of the Red Death, The Little Shop of 
Horrors, The Intruder, The Wild Angels, Bloody Mama), Stuart Gordon 
(Re-Animator, King of the Ants, Stuck), Brian Yuzna (Society, Beyond 
Re-Animator, The Dentist), Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno) 
Joe Dante (The Howling, Gremlins, The Hole), Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, 
Die Hard II), Vanessa Redgrave (Blow Up, The Devils, Julia) and Ruggero 
Deodato (Last Cannibal World, Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of 
the Park).  Previous keynotes to Cine-Excess have included Sir 
Christopher Frayling (Head of the Arts Council), Professor Mark 
Jancovich (University of East Anglia), Professor Martin Barker 
(University of Wales, Aberystwyth), Matt Hills (University of Cardiff), 
Professor Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University), Professor Chris 
Jenks (Brunel University) and Professor Richard Dyer (Kings College, 
London.)



Papers from Cine-Excess III are currently being developed into the book 
Screening the Undead to be published by I.B. Tauris. A peer-reviewed 
Cine-Excess E-Journal is also being launched in Autumn 2012, and will 
publish a selection of papers from the event on a twice yearly basis.



Cine-Excess IV focuses on global adaptations of cult narratives, genres, 
themes and icons across a broad range of media and fiction formats. From 
pulp novels into pulp horror films and recent big budget blockbuster 
remakes of marginal midnight movies, to nationally defined 
interpretations of the pre-established extreme, the cult image remains a 
fascinating index of adaptation, whose wide array of remakes, renditions 
and realisations  frequently reveals fascinating issues of nation and 
narrative, as well cultural, regional and historical distinction.



In order to investigate this concept further, Cine-Excess VI will 
consider global case-studies of cult adaptation, with a particular 
focussing on differing national and narrative conceptions of the 
outlandish and the extreme. The event will consider the concept of 
adaptation in its broad theoretical remit, focusing on a range of cult 
re-mediations across a wide range of written and visual media, including 
film, television, literature, games, comics, and digital media. 
Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following topics and 
areas:



·         Pulped Priming: Cult Renditions from Literature to Film and Beyond

·         The Art and Atrocity of Adaptation: Studies of Cult Narrative 
and Style

·         Violence, Vengeance and the Seductive: Cult Cycles From 
Culture to Culture

·         The Years Without Lead: Historical Trauma, Sexuality and the 
Euro-Extreme

·         Eugenics and Exploitation: Adapting National Fears Through the 
Cult Image

·         Harlots, Howlers and Hobos: Case-Studies in Canadian Excess

·         Trans-European Excess: Cult Controversies from the European 
Margins

·         Gimmie Slaughter: Celluloid Adaptations of the Mansion Cult

·         Skin Flicks and Perverse Surgery: From Eyes Without a Face to 
The Human Centipede and   Beyond

    *   Outback Outrages: Recent Renditions of the Australian Extreme
    *    From Nazi to ‘Nastisploitation’: Cult Adaptations of Filmic 
Fascism
    *    Institutional Excess: Exploitation Outfits from Troma Films to 
The Asylum
    *     DIY Cults: Fan Films and Subcultures of Adaptation
    *     Adaptation as Arousal: Erotic Renditions of Film and Literature
    *     Female Avengers: Controversial Cult Femmes Across Cultural 
Borders
    *    The Devil Within Her: The Cult Possession Movie Across 
National Boundaries
    *     Adapting Excess: Case Studies of the Cult Performer
    *     The Trans-Global Extreme: Adapting the Iconography of Weird 
World Cinema
    *     Islamic Exploitation Cinema: Race, Religion and Cult Iconography
    *    Grindhouse Grooves: From Visuals to Vinyl
    *       Last Screenplay on the Left: Blockbuster Renditions of the 
Extreme
    *     Look Back in Ankara: Turkish Trash Cinema Traditions
    *     Sun, Sex and Sadism: Case Studies in ‘Greeksploitation’
    *    Cult Across Categories: Multimedia Re-mediations of the Marginal
    *     Chrome, Metal and Cult: Cult Biker, Cop and Gangs from Cinema 
to TV



We welcome individual paper submissions, panels and roundtable 
proposals. Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. 
by Wednesday 21st March 2012 to:



Xavier Mendik                                                 Filippo 
Del Lucchese

Director of Cine-Excess                                   Co-Director of 
Cine-Excess

The School of Arts                                          The School 
of Social Science

Brunel University                                             Brunel 
University

Uxbridge                                                         Uxbridge

Middlesex                                                       Middlesex

UB8 3PH                                                         UB8 3PH

United Kingdom                                               United Kingdom

(xavier.mendik /at/ brunel.ac.uk)                              
(filippo.dellucchese /at/ brunel.ac.uk)





For further information and regular updates on the event (including 
information on guests and screenings) please visit www.cine-excess.co.uk


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