[Commlist] Call for Papers for Cine-Excess 16: Reframing the Monsters Outside: Mavericks, Rebels and Rule Breakers in Cult Film

We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the 16^th 
annual /Cine-Excess /International Film Festival and Conference has just 
been released and can be found below.

Entitled /Reframing the Monsters Outside: Disruptive Sexualities in Cult 
Cinema/, the event runs from 18^th -23^rd October 2022, and will feature 
an online conference with accompanying physical/virtual guests and 
screening season.

*Call for Papers: /Cine-Excess/ 16 International Film Festival & 
Conference *

*/Cine-Excess/**16 International Film Festival & Conference *

*Reframing the Monsters Outside: Mavericks, Rebels and Rule Breakers in 
Cult Film *

*18th - 23rd October 2022***

*Online conference with accompanying **physical/virtual guests and 
screenings ​ - presented by Birmingham City University, MAC Birmingham, 
The Electric Cinema and Mockingbird Cinema.***

**

*Confirmed Guest of Honour: Peter Strickland **(*/*Flux Gourmet*/*, 
*/*In Fabric*/*, */*Berberian Sound Studio*/*)***

*Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Professor Maisha Wester (University of 
Sheffield) ***

Further Guests who will be attending /Cine-Excess/ 16 to discuss the 
theme of ‘Reframing the Monsters Outside: Mavericks, Rebels and Rule 
Breakers in Cult Film’ will be announced shortly.


For its *16th annual edition*, /Cine Excess/ invites a critical 
rethinking of cinematic rule breaking and those cult film figures, 
practices and traditions that have been so central to debates in this 
field. From early cinema to the subversive contemporary screen, rule 
breaking remains a perennial theme to cult film discourse, and 
accommodates a diverse range of filmmakers, performers and industrial 
practices. From classic cult mavericks like Ed Wood and John Waters 
through to contemporary, cutting-edge auteurs who experiment with the 
limits of genre and cult film definition itself such as this year’s 
guest *Peter Strickland*, this tradition manifests in a range of films 
and their reception contexts and broader legacies. However, the concept 
of the cinematic outsider also incorporates important considerations of 
race, gender, sexuality and disability within cult film representations. 
Some of these themes will be addressed by *Professor Maisha Wester* in 
her keynote address on the topic of Anti-Blackness and Relative Monstrosity.

​Additionally, the dynamic evolution that marks cult cinema has seen the 
very notion of rule-breaking itself change, along with the role of what 
have typically been defined as mavericks and rebels. The spirit of 
transgression that lies at the heart of rule breaking – be it 
ideologically, stylistically, industrially or a range of other ways – 
now sees new manifestations of how this spirit of subversion can be 
rethought.

Accordingly, this year’s theme *Reframing the Monsters Outside: 
Mavericks, Rebels and Rule Breakers in Cult Film* invites participants 
to look back over cinema’s established mavericks as well as considering 
contemporary outsiders within the terrain of cult film. The topic of the 
film mavericks and outsiders will also consider broader issues 
pertaining to subversion and transgression; who historically has been 
associated with breaking the rules, how that concept has changed and how 
mavericks and rebels can be most productively reimagined as we move 
forward in a spirit of inclusive representation.

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:

  * Challenging the orthodoxy: case-studies of cult mavericks, rebels
    and rule breakers.
  * Experimental world building and beyond in the films of Peter 
Strickland.
  * LGBTQIA+ rebels and rule breakers in cult films/cult industries.
  * Mavericks, monsters and rule breakers: horror and monstrous 
marginality.
  * (Re)gendering the cult film mavericks.
  * Dangerously different: disability and intersectionality in cult film.
  * Rethinking genre through the cult film deviation.
  * Porn rebels, body doubles and sexual mavericks.
  * Indigenous and diasporic renditions of the outsider.
  * Mavericks beyond the West: Asian, African and South American cult
    film rule breakers.
  * Cult film bandits: outlaws, criminals and revolutionaries on screen.
  * The maverick as maniac: loners, outsiders and the cult thriller.
  * Welcome to the machine: industrial readings of the cult film
    organisations.
  * Aural rule breaking and the sonic intersections: The sounds of cult
    cinema.
  * Maverick identities: cult and national cinema contexts.
  * Mainstream Agitators: cinema’s new rule breakers.
  * Cult creatives: zines, magazines and their cultural legacies.
  * Constructed “heroes” and contested “muses”: maverick collaborations.
  * Thrills at the margins: transnational examples of the cult action
    canon.
  * Forgotten icons: reconsidering the lost cult film performer.
  * Channels of dissent: new media, innovation and rule breaking.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by *Monday 
22nd August 2022* to:

Dr Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Co-Director of /Cine-Excess/
(alexandra.heller.nicholas /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) 
<mailto:(Alexandra.Heller.Nicholas /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

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 *Monday 
29th August 2022*.

/Cine-Excess/ 16 comprises an online conference with accompanying 
physical/virtual guests and screenings. Delegate fees are: £75/£40 
(concessions) for attendance at the virtual conference and related 
physical and streamed screenings and filmmaker talks. We have adopted 
this hybrid structure to ensure that the event remains accessible and 
inclusive to international and low-waged scholars.

For further information visit: https://bit.ly/cecfp16


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