[Commlist] Cine-Excess 14 Call for Papers

## Call for Papers

## Cine-Excess: The 14th International Conference and Festival on Global 
Cult Film Traditions

### Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of 
Resistance. 5th- 7th November 2020 (Online).

Cine-Excess 14, in association with Birmingham City University and the 
Black Sands Educational Project, features an online academic conference, 
alongside film industry panels and a streamed film festival season of 
related UK premieres and retrospectives. A Panel of international 
filmmakers discussing the theme of ‘Representations as Weapons’ will be 
announced in late July.*

Previous guests of honour attending Cine-Excess have included Jen & 
Sylvia Soska (American Mary, Rabid [2019]), Norman J. Warren (Prey, 
Terror), Victoria Price (Author of Vincent Price: A Daughter’s 
Biography), Pete Walker (Frightmare and House of the Long Shadows), 
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 Basts), Sergio Martino (Torso, All the 
Colours of the Dark), Jeff Lieberman (Squirm, Blue Sunshine) and Pat 
Mills (Action Magazine, 2000 AD).

For its 2020 edition, Cine-Excess is working in collaboration with the 
Black Sands Educational Project, which seeks to educate UK-based BAME 
artists, filmmakers and audiences about the subversive potential that 
surrounds black representations in cult and marginal cinema formats. The 
focus of the Black Sands project helps informs this year’s conference 
theme: *Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of 
Resistance*. This theme considers the extent to which the struggle for 
representations by various ethnicities, genders and divergent groups is 
enacted through a range of classic and contemporary cult film genres.

This focus on representations as weapons will consider the complex 
issues of gender and racial diversity as embodied by the cult image, 
whilst exploring a range of international traditions, directors and 
performers whose work can be seen as existing at the borders of 
cinematic excess and political struggle. Further topics might consider 
the work of classic and contemporary minority and female filmmakers, 
alongside those performers whose works annex social commentary with 
unconventional content, while issues of diaspora, disability, mental 
health and migration are other key topics that will be discussed by this 
year’s event. Proposals are invited for papers that consider cult film 
case-studies within a range of differing contexts that relate to this 
year’s theme. We would particularly welcome contributions that focus on 
the following areas:

1. Manipulating the Mainstream: Jordan Peele and the New Politics of 
Race Horror

2. Between Genres and Against the Grain: Female Voices in Cult and 
Extreme Cinema

3. The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Horror Remakes

4. From Cause Célèbre to Cultural Icon: New Readings of Pam Grier and 
Performativity

5. Representation as Weapons: Cult Cinema at Key Points of Historical 
Conflict

6. Race Re-Framed: New Readings of Blaxploitation Cinema Cycles

7. Inclusion in Excess: Using the Extreme Image in Educational and 
Pedagogic Practices

8. Classic and Contemporary Images of Black American Horror

9. From Diversity to Deviance: The Struggle for Sexual Identity in 
Marginal Film

10. Screening Diversity, Consent and Desire in Marginal Film and Digital 
Sex/Pornography

11. Coloniser, Colonised and Cult: Film Narratives and the Struggle for 
Representation

12. Bodies as Battlegrounds: LGBTQ+ Representations and Intimacies

13. Terrifying Outsiders: Migrant Traumas and Regional Conflicts in Cult 
Film Narratives

14. “Gypsies”, Roma and Nomads: Cult Representations of Travellers and 
Traveller Communities

15. Dubbed but Highly Dangerous: The Political Reception of European 
Radical Film Texts

16. Transnational and Trash: Conflicted Notions of Nationhood in Pulp Cinema

17. Margins Within Margins: Black Trans-representation in Film

18. Disability, Diversity and Representation in Cult Cinema

19. Scoring the Resistance: Cult Soundtracks as Symbols of Rebellion

20. Screening Rights and the Battle for Embodiment: Trans and Non-Binary 
Voices on Screen

21. Split: Framing Mental Health in Exploitation Cinema

22. Framing the Forgotten: Dispossessed UK Communities on Screen

23. Bodies as Weapons: Classic and Contemporary Case-Studies of 
Subversive Cult Performers

24. Diverse Voices in Distribution: New Organisations and Patterns of 
Screen Disruption

25. Cult on Cults: Fictional Representations of Real Life Marginal 
Communities

Since its inception in 2007, Cine-Excess has developed 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, film makers and community groups.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a short (one page) C.V. by **Monday 
21st September 2020** to:

**Professor Xavier Mendik** Director of the Cine-Excess International 
Film (Festivalxavier.mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) 
<mailto:(xavier.mendik /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

**Dr. Gemma Commane** Co-Director of the Cine-Excess International Film 
(Festivalgemma.commane /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) 
<mailto:(gemma.commane /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

**Jo Delyse-Packwood** Co-Director of the Cine-Excess International Film 
(Festivaljo.delyse.packwood /at/ cine-excess.co.uk) 
<mailto:(jo.delyse.packwood /at/ cine-excess.co.uk)>

A final listing of accepted presentations will be released on Friday 
25th September 2020.

Online Delegate fees for Cine-Excess 14 are £50/£25 (concessions) and 
include access to all conference activities, related screenings, and 
industry panels. A selection of conference papers from the event will 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 .

[*Cine-Excess continues to monitor the Covid 19 (coronavirus) outbreak, 
regularly reviewing the situation and taking necessary action. Our 
priority is to ensure the health and safety of our attendees, delegates, 
staff, and everyone we work with. Cine-Excess reserves the right to 
amend the conference and festival programme in the event of changes to 
Covid 19 restrictions and guidelines.]

*Dr. Gemma Commane*

Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, BCU**

/Co-Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival /

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