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

This is a reminder for any scholars wishing to submit conference 
proposals to the /Cine-Excess/ 16 International Film Festival & 
Conference that our Call for Papers is open until *Monday 22^nd August*.

The full Call for Papers alongside confirmed guests and keynote speaker 
can be found below:

*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 Guests of Honour: ***

*Ti West (/House of the Devil/, /The Innkeepers/, /X/) - live Streamed 
festival address ***

*Peter Strickland **(/Flux Gourmet/, /In Fabric/, /Berberian Sound 
Studio/) – in person/live streamed festival address ***

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

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 guests *Ti 
West* and *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: the films of Ti West.
  * 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:


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