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[ecrea] CFP for Cine-Excess XII: I Know What You Starred in Last Summer: Global Perspectives on Cult Performance
Fri Jun 29 09:50:39 GMT 2018
Call for Papers
The 12th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film
Traditions
Birmingham City University Presents:
Cine Excess XII
I Know What You Starred in Last Summer: Global Perspectives on Cult
Performance 8th-10th November 2018
Birmingham City University (and related screening venues) Confirmed
Guests of Honour:
Victoria Price (Author of Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography)
-Victoria Price will be receiving a posthumous Cine-Excess Lifetime
Achievement Award on behalf of her late father on the 50th anniversary
of Witchfinder General Pete Walker (Director of Frightmare and House
of the Long Shadows)
-Pete Walker will be receiving a Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement Award
for his contribution to the development of British cult cinema traditions
Over the last 12 years, the Cine-Excess International Film Conference
and Festival has brought together leading scholars with global cult
filmmakers and industry figures for an annual event that combines a
themed academic conference with director interviews and UK theatrical
premieres of upcoming 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) and Pat Mills (Action Magazine, 2000 AD).
Cine-Excess XII is hosted by Birmingham City University and will
feature a three day academic conference alongside visiting international
filmmakers and a season of related UK premieres and retrospectives
taking place at screening venues across the region. For its 12th annual
edition, Cine Excess focuses on global traditions of cult performance,
as exercised through a wide range of international case-studies and
methodological approaches. By exploring established and new approaches
to cult film performativity, the conference will consider how renditions
of bodily display are mediated through a wide range of film genres.
These examinations will include how Hong Kong martial arts formats
become embodied through the performances of their male and female stars,
as well as contemplating how iconic enactments, such as that of Boris
Karloff in James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) have reverberated
intertextually since their inception. In addition to exploring the
importance of gendered performance in the production and reception of
disreputable film genres, other areas of conference analysis will
consider how cult performers such as Gary Oldman nuance their roles
through looks, expressions and gestures, or how performing cult bodies
are rendered compelling in the way that they disappear, only to return
endlessly (such as Michael Myers’ vanishing at the end of Halloween).
The conference will also take account of the importance of collaboration
between cult directors and iconic stars, dissecting the off-kilter
performances, deviant personalities and anomalous bodies found in the
works of directors that range from David Lynch to Lars von Trier. In
addition, Cine-Excess XII will also seek to analyse the status and
reception of cult stars across differing global territories, as well as
assessing how stardom can either be dismantled or confirmed through
B-movie participation. Also central to certain forms of cult appeal, and
compounding physical presence, is the performer’s voice, extending from
the lyrical mellifluous tones of Morgan Freeman to the disquieting,
sinister and uniquely compelling voice of Vincent Price. In this vein,
we are pleased to welcome author Victoria Price, who will be accepting a
posthumous Cine-Excess Lifetime Achievement in recognition of her late
father’s career, and to coincide with the 50th anniversary of his
influential performance in the 1968 classic Witchfinder General. Also
appearing as a guest with Victoria Price will be the legendary British
horror director Pete Walker, who not only directed Vincent Price in the
1983 film House of the Long Shadows, but was also responsible for a
range of prominent and controversial British shockers that included The
Flesh and Blood Show (1972), Frightmare (1974) and House of Whipcord
(1974). In order to explore the central conference themes further,
Cine-Excess XII will examine the importance of cult performativity
across a wide range of genres, formats, national traditions and modes of
critical interpretation. Proposals are now invited for papers that
assess the centrality of the cult performer within these differing
contexts. However, we would particularly welcome contributions focusing
on the following areas:
· Theatres of Blood: Vincent Price In and Out of Cult
· The Flesh and Blood Show: Perverse Performances in the Films
of Pete Walker · Folk Females: Gendered Performances of
Witchcraft and the Supernatural
· 1968 and the Cult Image: Cinematic Performances in an Age of
Revolution
· Screen Queens: Classic and Contemporary Cult Female Icons ·
Witchfinder General at 50: Bleak Images of Vincent Price’s Star
Persona · Actor, Auteur, Icon: Cult Stars as Directors
· Cult Pairings: Filmmaker and Star Collaborations at Cinema’s
Margins · Divas and Dark Avengers: Critical Reinterpretations of
Eurotrash Performers · Queer Scenes: LGBT Interpretations of
Celebrated Performers · The Men and Women From Hong Kong: Asian
Action Stars in Social Context
· Lost and Found Fan Objects: New Audience Studies Perspectives
on Global Cult Icons
· Creativity Masked: Cult Performance Behind Make-Up · On the B
List: Mainstream Stars Reborn Through Bad Movie Appearances
· Bigger Than Bond: Cult Renditions of the Superspy · Weird
World Icons: The Transnational Appeal of Global Cult Performers
· Immortal Icons: Ageing Performers, Dead Stars and their
Enduring Cult Appeal
· Big in Japan: Cult Performers Incorporated into Other National
Traditions · Small Segment Scares: New Perspectives on the
Portmanteau Performance · Cult Stardom Perspectives: New
Methodological Approaches to Cult Film Symbols · Illicit Stars:
Historical and Contemporary Erotic Film Icons Reappraised · Trashing the
Screen Test: Cult Performativity within the Vendetta Film Cycle
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by Friday
7th September 2018 to:
Professor Xavier Mendik
Birmingham City University
(xavier.mendik /at/ bcu.ac.uk) Dr Fran Pheasant-Kelly
University of Wolverhampton
(F.E.Pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk) A final listing of accepted
presentations will be released on Monday 17th September 2018. Delegate
fees for Cine-Excess XII are £100/£60 (concessions). This includes
entrance to the conference, related Cine-Excess screenings and industry
panels. A selection of conference papers from the event are scheduled
to be published in the Cine-Excess e-Journal. 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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