[ecrea] cfp - The 11th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film Traditions

Call for Papers
The 11th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film 
Traditions

 Birmingham City University Presents:

Cine Excess XI
Fear and the Unfamiliar: Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd Birmingham 
City University (and related screening venues)
9th-11th November 2017
www.cine-excess.co.uk
Over the last 11 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference 
and Festival has brought together leading scholars and critics with 
global cult filmmakers for an event comprising a themed academic 
conference with plenary talks, filmmaker interviews and UK theatrical 
premieres of up and coming film releases.
Previous guests of honour attending Cine-Excess have included Catherine 
Breillat (Romance, Sex is Comedy), John Landis (An American Werewolf in 
London, The Blues Brothers), Roger Corman (The Masque of the Red Death, 
The Wild Angels), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, King of the Ants), Brian 
Yuzna (Society, The Dentist), Dario Argento (Deep Red, Suspiria), Joe 
Dante (The Howling, Gremlins), Franco Nero (Django, Keoma, Die Hard II), 
Vanessa Redgrave (Blow Up, The Devils), Ruggero Deodato (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), Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine), Pat Mills (Action 
Magazine, 2000 AD) and Jake West (Evil Aliens, Dog House).

Cine-Excess XI is hosted by the Birmingham School of Media at Birmingham 
City University, and will feature a three day academic conference 
alongside filmmaking guests, industry panels and a season of related UK 
premieres and retrospectives taking place at screening venues across the 
region.
For its 11th annual addition, the conference Fear and the Unfamiliar: 
Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd considers the ways in which cult 
media exploits the boundaries of self and other in order to address 
horror and unease across a range of key genres. Specifically, it 
revisits and reconsiders Robin Wood’s (1986) taxonomy of otherness, 
which positioned categories such as women, the working class, ethnicity, 
alternative ideologies, and deviations from the ideological sexual norm 
as triggers for the evolution of the horror film and related 
transgressive genres.
Although Wood’s original return of the repressed hypothesis generated a 
range of critical readings around disreputable film genres, the 
parameters of his analysis have become invested with new and politicised 
resonances in recent years. Here, acts of extremism, and the making 
strange of the familiar in the contemporary milieu of Trump’s travel 
ban, a proposed wall to separate Mexico from the US, and generalised 
calls for greater immigration control all serve to resituate ‘other 
people’, ‘other cultures’ and ‘other places’ as sources of fear and 
revulsion. In short, awareness of individual, national and international 
difference has once more become culturally and politically foregrounded 
as threatening, thereby situating the other as being at the axes of 
Wrong Time, Wrong Place, Wrong Crowd.
Cine-Excess XI invites papers that either look back to Wood’s original 
premise, or assess more contemporaneous works/influences to consider 
such boundary awareness through the articulation of the other in cult 
media, film and television. This might involve the making strange of the 
familiar person/self, either in appearance or behaviour, perhaps through 
the mirror image or the doppelganger, or the rendering of places and 
spaces as uncanny, different or ideologically/physically remote, such as 
in the Gothic ruin, the rural backwater, or the isolated cabin in the 
woods. Proposals might also examine how shifts in time likewise cause 
ordinary contemporary on-screen places to become peculiar, excessive and 
cult.
Proposals are now invited for papers on a wide range of cult media 
case-studies, including film, television, literature, comics and digital 
media. However, we would particularly welcome contributions focusing on:

•	Legacy of the living dead –  Social realism and apocalyptic satire in 
the cinema of George A. Romero
•	Cabins, cannibals and chainsaws – The transgressive other of US cult 
cinema
•	Migrant trauma – Fears of the immigrant in classical and contemporary 
media •	Bloody kids – Infants and infantile fears in cult media 
traditions •	The return of the repressed redux – New readings of the 
concept of the other
•	The savage lens – Colonial visions of the unfamiliar •	The gothic 
other – Terrors old and new •	Wicker men and stone children – British 
tradition, folklore and cross-generational conflicts in UK cult film 
cultures
•	“Colonised by bourgeois ideology” – Robin Wood and the fear of the 
working class •	Picket fences and domestic perversions – Unwholesome 
portrayals of the nuclear family in cult film and  television
•	Invasion USA – Alternative ideologies and fears of national infiltration
•	Deadlier than the male – Case-studies of the transgressive female on 
screen •	Film and the unfamiliar – Global visions, transnational 
variants  and genres out of place •	Don’t go into the woods tonight – 
Urban fears in cinema’s forgotten rural spaces  •	Lost boys and girls – 
Gang culture tropes across cult film and TV •	Cult on cults  – 
Representations of religious and political extremists •	Sexuality and 
the unfamiliar – Queer bodies and threats to heteronormativity •	The 
other within – Outcasts , radicals and vengeful veterans
•	Fear of the once familiar – Mainstream icons reborn as cult performers 
•	The Cultification of the Uncanny –  Theoretical perspectives on the 
concept of the unfamiliar
•	Fear of the all too familiar –   Doubles and doppelgangers in cult 
film and TV
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by
Friday 8th September 2017 to:

Xavier Mendik                             				Fran Pheasant-Kelly        		
Birmingham City University      				University of Wolverhampton 
(xavier.mendik /at/ bcu.ac.uk)         				(F.E.Pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk)
A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on Friday 
15th September 2017.
Delegate fees for Cine-Excess XI are £130 (standard) /£60 (concessions) 
for the three days, or £50 (standard) and £25 (concessions) per day. 
This fee includes entrance to the conference and related Cine-Excess 
screenings and industry panels.  For further information and regular 
updates on the event (including information on guests, keynotes and 
screenings) please visit www.cine-excess.co.uk

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