[ecrea] CFP: Cine Excess VII: European Erotic Cinema: Identity, Desire and Disgust

Call for Papers

The 7th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions



B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies

& The Faculty of Art, Design and Media at Brighton University present



Presents



Cine Excess VII

European Erotic Cinema: Identity, Desire and Disgust



Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham

15-17 November 2013



Over the last 6 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), Ruggero 
Deodato (Last Cannibal World, Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of 
the Park) Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, The Inglorious Bast***s) and Sergio 
Martino (Torso, All the Colours of the Dark).



With the recent relocation of Cine-Excess to the University of Brighton, 
a number of new developments connected to the event have been announced. 
These include the 2013 launch of the peer-reviewed Cine-Excess 
E-Journal, which will publish a selection of papers from the event on a 
twice yearly basis, while a new Cine-Excess feature film arm is also in 
development in conjunction with a range of international partners.



For this year’s event Cine-Excess is proud to be working with the 
University of Birmingham’s newly formed B-Film: The Birmingham Centre 
for Film Studies as part of the Cine-Excess VII event.



Cine-Excess VII considers Europe’s long and controversial relationship 
with the erotic image, considering the extent to which cult European 
traditions of desire reveal fascinating issues of nation and regional 
distinction.



From mainstream cinema’s first nude scene in Ekstase (1933) and the 
extreme arthouse imagery of Romance (1999) via the exploitation films of 
Joe D’Amato and Jess Franco, Europe has always been at the cutting edge 
of cinematic depictions of the erotic, pushing the boundaries of what it 
is legitimate to represent on screen. Employing varied genres and 
filmmaking modes – from the pseudo-educational sex films of Scandinavia 
and Germany to the surrealist exploits of Walerian Borowczyk or the arty 
bourgeois respectability of Emmanuelle (1974) – European cinema has 
shifted the paradigms through which the (eroticised) body can be 
represented and consumed, blurring and problematizing the boundaries 
between ‘art’ and ‘exploitation’. Often these celluloid sexual 
experimentations also traverse accepted boundaries of desire and 
disgust, with unsettling and controversial results. In so doing, these 
films prompt a profound re-mapping of the body, as well as of the 
concepts of art, commerce and even the very notion of ‘European’.



This conference will explore the history of European erotic cinema from 
a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, while also 
considering a range of national traditions of carnality across a wide 
range of visual media that include film, television, literature, comics 
and digital media.

Several well-known filmmakers of European erotic cinema will also be in 
attendance to discuss their work and interact with academic speakers. 
Proposals are now invited for papers on any aspect of European cinema. 
However, we would particularly welcome contributions focusing on:



    * The National and the Naughty: eroticism and European identity;
    * Carnal and Cruel: Euro erotica and the horrific
    * New Territories, Old Taboos: Extreme desires in the new Europe;
    * Erotic Auteurs: Case-studies of the carnal cineaste;
    * Sin, Surgery and Sutures: The medicalization of European erotica;
    * Trans-generic desires: eroticism as celluloid hybrid;
    * Art or Arousal:  Problematic distinctions between pornography and 
the European erotic;
    * Deviant Distinctions: The erotic in ‘art’ and ‘exploitation’ cinema;
    * Carnal Cravings: Questions of consumption and reception;
    * Against God and State: Censorship and the erotic image;
    * >From Desire to Disgust: Conflicted carnalities, confused cycles;
    * The Politics of the Erotic: Historical case-studies of arousal;
    * Basic Instincts: the cinema of Paul Verhoeven, Catherine Breillat 
and Just Jaeckin;
    * 50 States of Grey: European traditions of titillation abroad;
    * The Devil Within Her: Erotic Desires and the female body;
    * >From Page to Porn: Adaptations of the literary erotic;
    * Institutions of Excess: Case-studies of European distribution;
    * Queer Europe: From the experimental frame to the exploitation image;
    * Small Screen Thrills: TV and erotic traditions;
    * Iconic Excess: Case-studies of erotic performance;
    * Brown Skins, White Marks: The transnational/transitional erotic 
body in film;
    * Sex and the Unsafe Space: Domestic fears and the erotics of home 
invasion



We welcome individual paper submissions, panels and roundtable proposals 
related to a range of European regions and traditions. Please send a 
300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by the 3rd September 2013 to:



Alex Marlow-Mann ((a.p.marlowmann /at/ bham.ac.uk)) or Xavier Mendik 
((x.mendik /at/ brighton.ac.uk))



A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on 17th 
September 2013.  A selection of conference papers from the event are 
scheduled to be published in the Cine-Excess E-Journal and as a separate 
anthology.



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





Dr. Alex Marlow-Mann

Lecturer in European Film/ Acting Director of B-Film: Birmingham Centre 
for Film Studies

School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music

Ashley Building

The University of Birmingham

Birmingham

B15 2TT



Tel: **44 (0)121-4148597

(a.p.marlowmann /at/ bham.ac.uk)

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/marlow-mann-alex.aspx



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