[ecrea] Cult Genres, Traditions and Bodies: A Decade of Excess

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Cult Genres, Traditions and Bodies: A Decade of Excess

The Big Screen (Birmingham City University) 10th-12th November 2016​

Over the last 10 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference 
and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with 
global cult filmmakers for an event comprising a themed academic 
conference with plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and UK theatrical 
premieres of up and coming film releases.

Previous guests of honour attending Cine-Excess have included Catherine 
Breillat (Romance, Sex is Comedy), John Landis (An American Werewolf in 
London, The Blues Brothers), Roger Corman (The Masque of the Red Death, 
The Wild Angels), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, King of the Ants), Brian 
Yuzna (Society, The Dentist), Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria) Joe 
Dante (The Howling, Gremlins), Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard II), 
Vanessa Redgrave (Blow Up, The Devils), Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal 
Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park) Enzo G. Castellari (Keoma, The 
Inglorious Bast***s), Sergio Martino (Torso, All the Colours of the 
Dark), Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine) and Pat Mills (Action 
Magazine, 2000 AD).

Cine-Excess X is hosted by the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham 
City University, and will feature a three day academic conference 
alongside film industry panels and a season of related UK premieres and 
retrospectives taking place at screening venues across the region.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the conference Cult Genres, 
Traditions and Bodies: A Decade of Excess reconsiders some of the key 
debates around cult film genres, traditions and modes of representation 
that have influenced the development of the annual Cine-Excess event 
over the past decade. At the same time, the event looks forward to the 
future development of cult film studies by dissecting new perspectives 
that are now dominating this area of study.

In their early influential studies of ‘outlaw’ film formats such as the 
slasher cycle, melodrama narrative and ‘skin flick’, theorists such as 
Carol J. Clover and Linda Williams identified a cinematic and sensory 
response to excess, which linked unwieldy film genres to unruly 
representations of the human body and even more unconventional reactions 
from their subcultural audiences.  While such studies proved pivotal in 
identifying the potentially subversive features of key cult film cycles, 
more recent accounts have expanded this scope of analysis to consider a 
far wider range of global film formats, whilst also assessing the 
stylistic, performative and representational strategies that come to 
dominate such startling visions. The explosion of interest in graphic 
comics, transmedia and online platforms has further extended the 
theoretical interest in cult genres, traditions and bodies, by widening 
the scope of enquiry beyond the cinematic medium to other areas of 
activity which warrant further investigation.
In order to explore these themes further, Cine-Excess X will consider a 
wide variety of cult media creations including key case-studies of cult 
activity from film, television, literature, comics and digital media.  A 
number of international filmmakers associated with key cult genres will 
be in attendance at Cine-Excess X to discuss their work and interact 
with academic speakers.

Proposals are now invited for papers on a wide range of cult film 
genres, traditions and strategies of representation. However, we would 
particularly welcome contributions focusing on:
​•Cult visionaries: contemporary creativity at cinema’s extreme edge 
•Grossed-out and top grossing: cult comedies of excess •New case-studies 
of classic cult and ‘exploitation’ auteurs •High art and low taste: 
case-studies in extreme experimentation
•From national borders to new territories: global traditions of the cult 
image
•From AIP to The Asylum: case-studies of cult production studios
•I know what you starred in last summer: the cult of bad acting
•Realm of the senses: cult renditions of sensory affect
•Revered and ruined: case-studies of the cult biography
•Small screen scares: Netflix, Amazon and new platforms for terror •From 
the burlesque to the brutal: cult interpretations of exotic performance 
•Consuming excess: new perspectives on cult audiences •The good, the bad 
and the forbidden: cult representations of taboo
•Transmedia excess: cult narratives and contemporary platforms •Scored: 
soundtracks and compositions to the cult film canon •Subcultures on two 
wheels: from Hells Angels flicks to the Sons of Anarchy series
•From slasher and sexploitation to cult noir: transgressive femininities 
on screen •Crash and burn cults: Hollywood flops reborn
•The men and women from Hong Kong: new studies of kung fu performativity 
•Superheroes, sidekicks and subversives: the graphic face of the cult 
comic book
•Corporeal excess: new readings of the cult body

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by Friday 
9th September 2016 to:

Dr. Xavier Mendik - Birmingham City University - (xavier.mendik /at/ bcu.ac.uk)

Fran Pheasant-Kelly - University of Wolverhampton - 
(F.E.Pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk)

Glenn Ward - University of Brighton - (G.P.Ward /at/ brighton.ac.uk)     A 
final listing of accepted presentations will be released on Friday 16th 
September 2016.


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