[Commlist] Cine-Excess 2024 Revised CfP | Blood Ties: The Family in Cult and Horror Cinema

*_Cine-Excess International Film Festival and Conference 2024_*

Online Conference

Blood Ties: The Family in Cult and Horror Cinema, 22-24 October 2024

In-Person Symposium

Saturday 26 October 2024 (Birmingham, UK)

Blood Ties Screening Season

21-27 October 2024

*_Scheduled Guests and Online Events_*

“/Gremlins/ at 40: Joe Dante in Conversation”

*Joe Dante*, director of /Gremlins/, celebrates the film’s fortieth 
anniversary with delegate Q&A

“Blood Ties Over Time: Cast and Crew Reflect on /The Texas Chain Saw 
Massacre/”

*Allen Danziger*(“Jerry”), *Ted Nicolaou* (Sound Department), *Daniel 
Pearl* (Cinematographer) and *William Vail* (“Kirk”) celebrate fifty 
years of /The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/ with an exclusive streamed 
roundtable discussion

Keynote Address: Professor Tony Williams

*Tony Williams*, Professor of Film Studies at Southern Illinois 
University, provides this year’s keynote address

*_Call for Papers_*

For more than half a century, the family, in all its forms, has been at 
the dark heart of cult and horror cinema, and the 2024 edition of 
/Cine-Excess/ invites contributors to a family celebration like no other!

/Gremlins/celebrates its fortieth anniversary this year, a 
genre-defining film that pioneered contemporary notions of family 
friendly horror, and director Joe Dante joins this year’s /Cine-Excess/ 
to commemorate the film’s anniversary in an exclusive Q&A with 
conference delegates.

While /Gremlins/ provides a universal glimpse into the cultural hopes 
and fears of Reagan’s America that continues to resonate with audiences 
today, another more controversial film also celebrates a landmark 
anniversary this year; a film that takes us from the white picket fences 
of suburbia to the unrelenting isolation of the rural South.

Fifty years on, /The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/’s visceral capacity to 
shock is undiminished. An immersive work of art that so perfectly 
encapsulates the cultural nihilism of the time, cast and crew join this 
year’s /Cine-Excess/ in an exclusive roundtable discussion, reflecting 
upon the truly transgressive nature of /The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/ on 
its fiftieth anniversary. Scheduled guests include Allen Danziger 
(“Jerry”), Ted Nicolaou (Sound Department), Daniel Pearl 
(Cinematographer) and William Vail (“Kirk”), all of whom will be the 
recipients of a Lifetime Achievement award on behalf of /The Texas Chain 
Saw Massacre/’s wider cast and crew.

Of course, /The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/ remains a touchstone for 
discussion of American cinema of the period, a definitive marker of 
post-classical cinema and one famously championed by film critic Robin 
Wood, whose seminal essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film” 
is 45 years old this year. We are delighted and honoured to welcome one 
of Wood’s esteemed contemporaries, Professor Tony Williams, author of 
/Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film/ (Fairleigh 
Dickinson University Press, 1996; University Press of Mississippi, 
2014), as our keynote speaker. For his /Cine-Excess/ 2024 keynote 
address, Professor Williams will be considering the significance of 
familial representation within a wide range of horror films including 
/The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/.

Aside from the groundbreaking entries of /Gremlins/ and /The Texas Chain 
Saw Massacre/ in this year’s call for papers, /Cine-Excess/ 2024 also 
casts a critical eye over more recent international examples which 
demonstrate subversive and socially incisive considerations of familial 
representation.

Proposals are welcomed for both individual papers or pre-constituted 
panels that consider case studies within a range of differing contexts 
that relate to this year’s theme, including:

  * “Don’t Feed Them after Midnight”: Celebrating the Fortieth
    Anniversary of /Gremlins/
  * Family Friendly? Case Studies on Joe Dante as Cult Auteur
  * “The Saw Is Family”: /The Texas Chain Saw Massacre/ and Its Legacy
  * Forty Years Aflame: /A Nightmare on Elm Street/ and the Franchise
    that Freddy Built
  * Frightmares: Deviant Families and Pagan Clans in British Horror Cinema
  * Blood Relatives: (In-)Famous Family Collaborations On-Screen and
    Behind the Lens
  * “Viewer Beware, You’re in for a Scare”: Family Friendly Horror and
    Children’s Cult Media
  * Cult on Cults: Charles Manson, “The Family” and Subcultural
    Representations
  * Mothers and Daughters, Fathers and Sons: Gender in the Family
  * (De-)Constructing Family Values: Cult Film, Cultural Crisis and the
    Symbolic Function of the Family
  * Feral Packs, Wayward Clans and Transgressive Bonds: International
    Renditions of the Disruptive Family
  * Family and the Female Gaze: Women’s Filmmaking and (Post-)Feminist
    Politics
  * “Based on True Facts”: Cult Representations of Real-Life Family Trauma
  * Queering the Family Structure: LGBTQ+ Subjectivity, Acceptance and
    Belonging
  * Archaic Legacies: Aging and Generational Trauma in the Family
  * What Lies Beneath: Whiteness, the Family and Global Images of Racial
    Difference
  * Trauma and Resistance Under the Colonial Gaze: Family, Kinship and
    Community
  * Keeping It in the Family: Case Studies in Kinship and Working Family
    Relations in Cult Production and Distribution Outlets

/Cine-Excess/2024 invites proposals for *_EITHER_* the online conference 
*_OR_* the in-person symposium. *Participants should indicate their 
preference when submitting their proposal*. The online conference is 
expected to run for a minimum of two days whereas the in-person 
symposium will be limited to a one-day event in Birmingham, UK on 
Saturday 26 October.

For the in-person symposium, as well as proposals from the above listed 
conference strands, we would be especially interested in submissions 
which deal with the family in horror and exploitation films of the 1970s 
and 1980s, as well as entries reinterpreting the family in work of 
scholars such as Robin Wood, Tony Williams, Vivian Sobchack, Carol J. 
Clover, and Barbara Creed.

Since 2007 /Cine-Excess/ has developed and nurtured 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 
scholars, activists, filmmakers and community groups.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio by *Monday 12th August 
2024* to:

John Atkinson, Editorial Lead of /Cine-Excess/

(john.atkinson /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)

Daniel Sheppard, Associate Director of /Cine-Excess/

(daniel.sheppard /at/ bcu.ac.uk)

Professor Xavier Mendik, Director of /Cine-Excess/

(xavier.mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)

A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on *Monday 
19th August 2024*.

We will subsequently invite a limited number of participants to rework 
their papers for inclusion in the seventh edition of the /Cine-Excess/ 
journal, for publication in Spring/Summer 2025.

For further information on /Cine-Excess/ 2024, visit 
www.cine-excess.co.uk <http://www.cine-excess.co.uk>.


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