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[Commlist] Call for Papers for Cine Excess 15: Bodies as Battlegrounds: Disruptive Sexualities in Cult Cinema

Fri May 14 15:16:15 GMT 2021






*Call for Papers*

*The 15th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions***

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*Birmingham City University Presents:*

*/_Cine Excess 15_/**/__/*

*_Bodies as Battlegrounds: Disruptive Sexualities in Cult Cinema_**__*

*20th-24th October 2021*

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*Organised in Association with Birmingham City University *

*(Streamed conference and online screening season) *

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*Keynote Speakers*

*Alexandra Heller-Nicholas*

Deakin University

(Author of /1000 Women in Horror/)

*Dr Alison Peirse*

University of Leeds

(Editor of /Women Make Horror/)

*A Panel of International Filmmakers attending /Cine-Excess 15/ to discuss ‘Disruptive Sexualities in Cult and Horror Cinema’ will be announced shortly*

/Cine-Excess/has been running since 2007 as an annual film festival and conference that combines visiting international filmmakers, a themed academic conference and film premieres and exclusive screenings. Previous /Cine-Excess/ guests have included *Pam Grier *(/Jackie Brown/), *Jen *& *Sylvia Soska* (/American Mary/), *Norman J. Warren* (/Prey/), *Catherine Breillat*(/Romance/), *Roger Corman *(/The Masque of the Red Death/) *Dario Argento *(/Deep Red/), *Joe Dante *(/The Howling/), *Franco Nero* (/Django/) and *Vanessa Redgrave* (/Blow Up/). //

For its *15^th annual edition*, /Cine Excess/ enters a new decade of the twenty-first century and considers the diverse history and growing hybridity of cult cinema and its representations. The focus of this year’s conference theme: */Bodies as Battlegrounds:  Disruptive Sexualities in Cult Cinema/*, considers the extent to which the struggle for inclusive representation by various marginalised groups is enacted through a variety of classic and contemporary cult film genres and their forms and technologies.

Keynote Alexandra Heller-Nicholas has written eight books on cult, horror, and exploitation cinema with a focus on gender politics. Her seminal publications include /1000 women in horror/ (BearManor Media, 2020) which maps women’s contributions to horror from 1895-2018. She has also published /Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study/ (McFarland, 2011), which will celebrate its 10-year anniversary at /Cine-Excess/. In her keynote address, Alexandra will explore the revision of her book which now includes a new chapter on women directed rape-revenge films. Here, Alexandra rejects the idea that women-led rape-revenge narratives are purely a post /#MeToo/ phenomenon.

Keynote Alison Peirse also considers women’s contributions to the horror genre. Alison’s multi award-winning edited collection ‘Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre’ (Rutgers University Press, 2021) has been praised for transforming the discourse on women-led horror. Building on this timely work, Alison’s keynote address considers female shape shifters in cult and horror cinema, with a specific focus on the disruptive werewolf archetype.

The focus on disruptive cults representations considered by both keynote speakers also informs this year’s call for papers, which will consider broader issues of gender diversity, sexuality, and representations of marginalised groups as intersections embodied by the cult image. */Bodies as Battlegrounds: Disruptive Sexualities in Cult Cinema/* also explores a range of global cinema traditions, subversive filmmakers, and performers whose work can be understood as engaging with the socio-political struggle for inclusive representation. Further topics might also consider the work of classic and contemporary marginalised and Queer filmmakers, alongside those performers whose works offer social commentary with unconventional content, while issues of diaspora, race, disability, and mental health are other key topics that will be discussed by this year’s event.

Proposals are invited for individual papers or pre-constituted panels that consider cult film case-studies within a range of differing contexts that relate to this year’s theme. However, we would particularly welcome contributions that focus on the following areas:

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 1. Sexuality Re-Framed: New Interpretations of Disruptive Screen
    Identities
 2. Feral in Female Form: Subversive Females and Animalistic Images
 3. Distinctive Visions: New Interpretations of Radical Cult Filmmakers
 4. Troubling the Nation-State: Disruptive Visions of America in Cult
    Cinema
 5. Diverse Voices in Body Genre Cinema: Classic and Contemporary
    Case-Studies
 6. The Other Reframed: The Role of Sexuality and Identity in Horror
    Remakes
 7. Classic and Contemporary Visions of Queer Global Horror
 8. Inclusion through Disruption: Disruptive Narratives in Educational
    and Pedagogic Practices
 9. National Cinema, National Bodies: Problematising British Cinema
    Through Cult Genres
10.  >From Deviance to Diversity: Changing Struggles for Identity in
    Queer Cinema
11. Screening Diversity, Challenging Desire: Celluloid Sin, Digital Sex
    and Pornography
12. Margins Within Margins: LGBTQ+ Representations and Intimacies
13. Screening Rights and the Battle for Embodiment: Trans and Non-Binary
    Voices on Screen
14.  >From Transmedia to Transhuman: Divergent Bodies in Digital spaces
15. Fear in Folk: From Found Footage to Found Identities
16. Short, Sharp Shocks: Short Films as Radical Formats of the Self
17. Reconfiguring Violated Bodies: The Body as Battleground in Rape-Revenge
18. Cult Stars and Disruptive Performances
19. New Territories, Diverse Fears: Cult Film’s Indigenous Communities
20. Exhibition and Inclusivity: Industry Perspectives on Diverse Digital
    Channels

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Over the past 15 years /Cine-Excess/ has developed a reputation as an inclusive and safe space in which to present new work around global cult film cultures. We welcome submissions from emerging and established and scholars, activists, film makers and community groups.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by *23^rd **August 2021 *to:

Amy Harris

Co-Director of /Cine-Excess
/(Amy.Harris /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(Amy.Harris /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

Professor Xavier Mendik

Director of /Cine-Excess/

(Xavier.Mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(Xavier.Mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on *27^th **August 2021*.

Filmmakers wishing to submit short and/or feature-length films for consideration at /Cine-Excess 15/ should consult our Film Freeway page for further information:

https://filmfreeway.com/Cine-Excess <https://filmfreeway.com/Cine-Excess>

For press enquires and guest updates about /Cine-Excess 15/ please contact:

Natasha Marburger

Co-Director of /Cine-Excess/

(Natasha.Marburger /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(Natasha.Marburger /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

Delegate fees for /Cine-Excess 15 /are £50/£25 (concessions) for attendance at online/streamed version of the 2021 event. This includes entrance to all conference activities, related /Cine-Excess/ screenings, and industry panels.  For further information and regular updates on the event please visit: https://www.cine-excess.co.uk/call-for-papers.html <https://www.cine-excess.co.uk/call-for-papers.html>


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