[ecrea] cfp: Cine Excess IX 12-14 November

Extended Call for Papers and Update on Guests for the 9th International 
Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions        


The University of Brighton Presents

Cine Excess IX
Historical Trauma, Hysterical Texts: Cult Film in Times of Crisis

The University of Brighton, Grand Parade
12-14 November 2015
www.cine-excess.co.uk

Guests of Honour
William Fruet (Death Weekend, Trapped, Spasms)
Pat Mills (Action Magazine, 2000AD, Battle Magazine)

Over the last nine years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference 
and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with 
global cult filmmakers. Cine-Excess comprises of a three day conference 
alongside filmmaker interviews, UK theatrical premieres of up and coming 
cult releases as well as related film industry panels.

Previous guests of honour to the annual Cine-Excess event have included 
Catherine Breillat (Romance, Sex is Comedy), John Landis (An American 
Werewolf in London, The Blues Brothers, Trading Places), Roger Corman 
(The Masque of the Red Death, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Intruder, 
The Wild Angels, Bloody Mama), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, King of the 
Ants, Stuck), Brian Yuzna (Society, Beyond Re-Animator, The Dentist), 
Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria, Inferno) Joe Dante (The Howling, 
Gremlins, The Hole), Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard II), Vanessa 
Redgrave (Blow Up, The Devils, Julia), Ruggero Deodato (Last Cannibal 
World, Cannibal Holocaust, House on the Edge of the Park) Enzo G. 
Castellari (Keoma, The Inglorious Bast***s), Sergio Martino (Torso, All 
the Colours of the Dark) and Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine).

Cine-Excess IX is hosted by the School of Art, Design and Media at the 
University of Brighton, and Guests of Honour include the Cult Canadian 
director William Fruet, whose startling creations include the unsettling 
home invasion thriller Death Weekend (1976) as well as the later Trapped 
(1982) and Spasms (1983). Fruet will be receiving a Cine-Excess Lifetime 
Achievement Award alongside the iconic comic book creator Pat Mills, 
whose controversial 1970s magazine Action provoked parliamentary 
discussion and moral panic campaigns. Other highlights of Cine-Excess IX 
include the UK theatrical premiere of Feed the Devil (viewed by many as 
the new Canadian Cannibal Ferox), which will be accompanied by a special 
industry panel on the topic of contemporary cult co-productions.

The theme of Cine-Excess IX considers how the cult image can be viewed 
as an uncomfortable reflection of wider discontents during key periods 
of historical turmoil. From ‘paranoid’ 1970s chillers exploring the 
traumas of Vietnam, Watergate and urban unrest, to post 9/11 torture 
controversies and beyond, American cinema has often referenced a wide 
range of social, political and military horrors within the 
‘disreputable’ arena of the cult film canon. Europe has also used a wide 
range of cult representations to acknowledge historical traumas that 
have ranged from fascist fears and militant threats to ecological 
anxieties and recent immigration phobias. In addition, other global 
cultures frequently figure their anxieties through a range of marginal 
movie cycles that also warrant further investigation.

In order to explore these themes, Cine-Excess IX will consider the 
concept of the cult film as a reflection of historical trauma from a 
range of differing theoretical and methodological perspectives, while 
also considering pertinent national case-studies across film, 
television, literature, comics and digital media. The Call for Papers is 
now extended to Monday 28th September 2015 in order to commission new 
panels devoted to the work of William Fruet and Pat Mills, with a third 
new panel devoted to commemorating cult cinema of the late Wes Craven.

While proposals are still invited for papers on any aspect of historical 
trauma, hysterical texts,  we would particularly welcome contributions 
focusing on the following themes:

•	From Socio-Political Horror to Self-Reflexive Screams: Remembering the 
Cinema of Wes Craven
•	Poor Angry White Kids: Action Excess and the Cult Universe of Pat Mills
•	Tax Shelter Terror: The Canadian Fears of William Fruet
•	From Lovelace to Loveless: Case-studies in Cult Carnality and Anxiety
•	American Traumas on the Screen: From JFK to 9/11
•	Dictatorships and the Deviant Image
•	Science Fiction Traumas: Case-Studies in Dystopia
•	The Contaminated Screen: Cannibals and Zombies in Social Context
•	Close Circuit Extreme: Surveillance Fears in Cult Cinema
•	Violence on the Streets: Gang Movies in Grindhouse Cinema
•	German Anxieties and the Cult Image
•	Political Phobias in the Italian Cult Film Text
•	Cult Vengeance Cinema in Social Context

We welcome individual paper submissions, panels and roundtable proposals 
related to the above conference themes. Please send a 300-word abstract 
and a short (one page) C.V. by Monday 28th September 2015 to:

Dr. Xavier Mendik - Director of the Cine-Excess Film Festival
(x.mendik /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

Dr Glenn Ward - Co-Director of Cine-Excess IX
(G.P.Ward /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

Alex Fitch - Co-Director of Cine-Excess IX
 (A.Fitch /at/ brighton.ac.uk)

Delegates fees for Cine-Excess IX are £100/£60 (concessions), and 
includes entrance to the conference and related Cine-Excess screenings 
and industry panels.

A selection of conference papers from the event will be published in the 
Cine-Excess E-Journal in 2016.
For further information and regular updates on the event (including 
updates on guests, screenings and industry panels) please visit 
www.cine-excess.co.uk

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