[ecrea] CFP: The Films of Jess Franco (Edited collection)

Call for Papers



Edited Volume: The Films of Jess Franco

Editors: Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent) and Ian Olney (York 
College of Pennsylvania)



Jesús “Jess” Franco (1930-2013) is one of the most prolific and madly 
inventive filmmakers in the history of cinema.  His remarkable career 
spanned more than half a century and produced almost two hundred films 
shot in Spain and across Europe.  He is best known as the director of 
jazzy, erotically-charged horror movies featuring mad scientists, 
lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but dabbled in a multitude of 
genres from comedy to science-fiction to pornography.  Although he made 
his career in the ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed 
to create a body of work that is deeply personal, frequently political, 
and surprisingly poetic.  Franco’s offbeat films command a devoted cult 
following; they have even developed a mainstream audience in recent 
years, thanks to their release on DVD and Blu-Ray.  To date, however, 
they have received relatively little scholarly attention.  The Films of 
Jess Franco seeks to address this neglect by bringing together original 
essays on Franco and his movies written from a variety of different 
theoretical perspectives by noted scholars around the world.  
Ultimately, its aim is to encourage a reassessment of this critically 
undervalued director and his significant contributions to popular 
European cinema.



The editors of this proposed volume invite original essays on any aspect 
of Jess Franco’s work; all theoretical approaches are welcome.  Possible 
topics might include:



·         Franco as Horror Auteur

·         Gender and/or Race in Franco’s Films

·         Queer Franco

·         The Franco Soundtrack

·         Franco’s Non-Horror Films

·         Late Franco (Films of the 1990s and 2000s)

·         Franco as Spanish Filmmaker

·         Franco as Transnational Filmmaker

·         Franco and the Art Film

·         Franco’s Influences

·         Sex and Eroticism in Franco’s Films

·         Franco and Film Adaptation

·         Performance and Stardom in Franco’s Films

·         The Politics of Franco’s Films

·         The Cult of Franco

·         Franco’s Legacy



Please send abstracts of 500 words to Antonio Lázaro-Reboll 
((a.lazaro-reboll /at/ kent.ac.uk)) and Ian Olney ((iolney /at/ ycp.edu)) by July 30, 
2014.  Final essays will be due January 30, 2015.  Essays should be 
6,000-8,000 words in length and should follow MLA guidelines for 
citation and documentation.

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