[ecrea] CFP: Global Exploitation Cinemas

With apologies for cross-posting, please find below the CFP for “Global 
Exploitation Cinemas: Historical and Critical Approaches”, an academic 
conference and film event organised by the University of Lincoln (UK) in 
association with the forthcoming Bloomsbury book series of the same name.


Deadline for abstracts is FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2015.



The event will take place 28 and 29 May 2015 at the historic Ritz Cinema 
and Theatre.



University of Lincoln presents …



GLOBAL EXPLOITATION CINEMAS:

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL APPROACHES



An academic conference and film event

The Ritz Cinema and Theatre, Lincoln (UK), 28 and 29 May 2015



CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:



Eric Schaefer (Emerson College, US)
author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films, 
1919-1959 (Duke University Press, 1999)

and editor of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution (Duke 
University Press, 2014)

I. Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)
author of British Trash Cinema (BFI, 2012) and Cult Film as a Guide to 
Life (Bloomsbury, 2015).







The academy’s approach to film history has undergone a significant shift 
in the 21st century, with previously marginalised, despised and 
neglected aspects of popular film being afforded unprecedented levels of 
attention. This process of revaluation has occurred on a global scale, 
highlighting the development of rich and relatively uncharted 
alternative film cultures and histories, including those of 
"exploitation" films, and in turn enabling fresh empirical and critical 
methodologies.

The academic conference and film event "Global Exploitation 
Cinemas"—which is being funded by the University of Lincoln (UK) and is 
working in conjunction with the forthcoming Bloomsbury book series of 
the same name—aims to bring together an eclectic and diverse range of 
approaches to exploitation cinema, welcoming any perspective that adds 
to the burgeoning scholarship in this field of study. Proposals which 
emphasise the international dimensions of exploitation cinema are 
especially welcome, but the conference will remain broad and inclusive 
in considering topics for discussion.

Potential subjects and approaches include, but are by no means limited to:

• Critical reception and/or re-assessment
• Socio-historical dimensions and debates
• Form and aesthetics
• Global and transnational perspectives
• Sexploitation
• The pornographic feature film
• Media controversies and censorship
• Publicity and advertising
• Stardom
• Directors, writers and producers
• Movements, cycles and sub-genres
• Exhibition and distribution
• Geographies
• Restoration and re-appropriation
• Exploitation in the video age
• Nostalgia
• Publishing
• "Mainstream" infiltrations
• DVD documentaries/special features
• Festivals and conventions
• Ephemera and the collector
• The internet and participatory cultures
• Neo-exploitation in the 21st century

Abstracts (of around 300 words) and some brief biographical information 
(of around 50 words) should be sent no later than FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 
2015 to the following email address: (exploitationcinemaconference /at/ gmail.com).



For more information about the event (and the book series) go to: 
http://globalexploitationcinemas.weebly.com.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Best wishes,



The organisers:

Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University)
Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln)

Austin Fisher (Bournemouth University)

Johnny Walker (Northumbria University)
Thomas Joseph Watson (Northumbria University)



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