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

*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:

**

 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

//

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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