Archive for June 2023

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[Commlist] Call for Papers: Cine-Excess 2023 International Film Festival & Conference - Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject

Thu Jun 29 21:26:57 GMT 2023



We are delighted to announce that the Call for Papers for the 17^th annual /Cine-Excess /International Film Festival and Conference has just been released and can be found below. Entitled /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject, /the event runs from 18^th -27^th October 2023 and includes an international conference with accompanying guest filmmakers, UK theatrical premieres and exclusive screenings.

**

**

*Call for Papers: /Cine-Excess/ 2023 International Film Festival & Conference*

*Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject
​18^th – 27^th October 2023*

*Birmingham, UK/Online *

An international conference with accompanying guest filmmakers, UK theatrical premieres and exclusive screenings

*Featured Events include: /Hellraiser /—//An Unholy Reunion of Cenobites (further details forthcoming) *

*Live online Keynote Speaker: Professor Barbara Creed (University of Melbourne), marking the 30^th anniversary republication of /The Monstrous–Feminine./*


For its 2023 edition, Cine-Excess considers the cinematic, social and cultural significance of the possessed, supernatural and unclean body onscreen. In-keeping with the festival’s established mission to integrate academic and industrial film perspectives, this year’s theme of /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject/ focuses on landmark scholarly texts as well as anniversaries and restorations of cult cinema classics that deal with this subject.

*Barbara Creed’s* /The Monstrous–Feminine/, first published in 1993, swiftly became acknowledged as a ground-breaking text in the study of horror for its application of feminist and psychoanalytic theory and its foregrounding of Julia Kristeva’s concept of ‘abjection’. Thirty years on, Professor Creed is publishing a second edition of the book, with a new section entitled: ‘Revolt of the Monstrous-feminine embracing the Nonhuman’.  This new face of the monstrous-feminine is the topic of a live streamed Cine-Excess 2023 keynote lecture.

2023 also marks the 50^th anniversary of the mother of all devil child films, William Friedkin’s /The Exorcist/. An enormous box office success and cultural phenomenon, the film spawned an international wave of ‘devil child’ imitations with their own social, cultural and gender-based sensibilities, whilst Friedkin and Warner Bros. have themselves continued to revisit and reissue the film in the intervening years. Autumn 2023 sees a 4K restoration return to theatres, and in anticipation of an uptick of interest in all things possessed, /The Exorcist/ rightfully features in the Cine-Excess 2023 call for papers.

Also returning in a 4K restoration this autumn is Clive Barker’s /Hellraiser/ (1987). One of the most distinctive and influential of all British cult horrors, with its seductive combination of intellectual provocation, shocking visuals and thematic abjection, the /Hellraiser/ universe continues to inspire fascination and adoration, most recently through a 2022 loose reboot of the first film. To celebrate the restoration of the cult classic, the festival will be profiling exclusive screenings of /Hellraiser/, with special guests to receive their Cine-Excess Innovator of Horror awards (further details to follow).

Beyond the example of /Hellraiser/, /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject /also draws in other nationally specific examples of the supernatural and subcultural from /The Wicker Man/ (which also celebrates its 50^th anniversary) to more contemporary international examples of the folk horror phenomenon. Additionally, this year’s conference theme also provides the platform to discuss classic and contemporary visions of the supernatural from the Global South, which themselves display important social, cultural, gender and regional concerns.

Accordingly, this year’s theme /Raising Hell: Demons, Darkness and the Abject/ invites participants to consider both classic and contemporaneous texts and consider their ongoing influence for both film audiences and cinema scholars. Proposals are therefore invited for individual papers or pre-constituted panels that consider case-studies within a range of differing contexts that relate to this year’s theme. We would particularly welcome contributions that focus on the following areas:

//

·/‘/Taste our pleasures!’: The Legacy and Influence of/Hellraiser/

·The Devil Inside Her: Witches and Wayward Women on Screen

·50 Years of Fear: New Perspectives on/The Exorcist/

·Supernatural Visions of the Global South

·National Traditions of the Abject Body on Screen

·Little Devils: Demonic Children on Screen

·New Visions of the Monstrous­­–Feminine

·‘He has his father’s eyes’: Parenthood and Demonic Children

·Raising Hell: Unruly Cult Auteurs as Unholy Creatives

·‘He chose you, honey! From all the women in the world to be the mother of his only living son!’: The Female as the Mid-Wife to the Devil

·Demonic Divas: Star Study Perspectives of Possession Performers

·‘If I die I’m going to haunt you myself’: Demonic Possession in an Online World

·The Power of the Box Office Compels You/: Exorcist /Clones in Context//

·Folklore Cinema and the Witch as Monstrous–Feminine

·‘Have these children never heard of Jesus?’: /The Wicker Man/ at 50

·‘The box. You opened it. We came’: /The Exorcist/ and /Hellraiser/ reborn in the multi-platform age

·Making Work for Idle Hands: The Devil in the Workplace

·Supernatural Small Towns of the Streamers:/Stranger Things/, /Fear Street/, /Sabrina/

·/From Fantasia to /Goosebumps/: The Demonic in Children’s Media/

·Are You Making it Move?: Rituals and Performance in Demonic Cinema

Over the past 17 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 *Friday 25^th August 2023* to:

John Atkinson

Editorial Lead of /Cine-Excess/
(john.atkinson /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) <mailto:(john.atkinson /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 *Thursday 31^st August 2023.***

We will subsequently invite a limited number of participants to rework their papers for inclusion in the sixth edition of the Cine-Excess journal, for publication in spring 2024.

/Cine-Excess/2023 invites delegates to present either in person or online for this year’s conference, and participants should indicate their preference when submitting their conference proposal.

For further information visit: https://bit.ly/CECFP <https://bit.ly/CECFP>


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ commlist.org)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------




[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]