[Commlist] Call for Papers Deadline for Cine-Excess 14: Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance

This is a reminder of the upcoming deadline for proposals to the 
Cine-Excess 14 international conference and festival.

*Call for Papers*

*The 14th International Conference and Festival on Global Cult Film 
Traditions***

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*/_Cine Excess 14_/**/__/*

*_Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance_*

*5^th - 7^th November 2020*

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*Organised in association with Birmingham City University and the Black 
Sands Educational Project *

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*Confirmed Guest of Honour*

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*Pam Grier*

*(/Jackie Brown/, /Coffy/, /Scream Blacula Scream/) *

*Live Streamed Interview and Q and A on Friday 6^th November 2020 *

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 Bast***s/), *Sergio Martino* 
(/Torso/, /All the Colours of the Dark/), *Jeff Lieberman* (/Squirm/, 
/Blue Sunshine/) and *Pat Mills* (/Action Magazine/, /2000 AD/).**

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/Cine-Excess 14 /features an onlineacademic conference alongside film 
industry panels and a streamed film festival season of related UK 
premieres and retrospectives.*

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 also 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.

As central to this examination, we are delighted to welcome the 
legendary actress Pam Grier (/Jackie Brown/, /Coffy/, /Scream Blacula 
Scream/) as our Guest of Honour to /Cine-Excess/ 14. In a career that 
has spanned more than thirty years, Pam Grier pioneered the 
representation of strong African-American heroines across a range of 
influential films, often appearing in pulp productions that carried 
prominent messages about gender and racial equality. Her body of work 
remains relevant to contemporary audiences, who are now even more 
interested in issues of diversity portrayed in these cult narratives. 
Pam Grier will be joining the festival for a live streamed interview and 
audience Q and A on *Friday 6^th November*, when she will also receive 
her /Cine-Excess/ Lifetime Achievement Award.

We therefore welcome conference submissions that deal directly with Pam 
Grier’s work as a performer and cultural icon. Further topics might also 
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 now invited for papers 
that consider cult film case-studies within a range of differing 
contexts that relate to this year’s theme. However, we would 
particularly welcome contributions that focus on the following areas:

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 1.  >From /Cause Célèbre/to Cultural Icon: New Readings of Pam Grier
    and Performativity
 2. Manipulating the Mainstream: Jordan Peele and the New Politics of
    Race Horror
 3. Between Genres and Against the Grain: Female Voices in Cult and
    Extreme Cinema
 4. The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Horror Remakes
 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 Festival

Birmingham City University

(xavier.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 Festival

(gemma.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 Festival

(jo.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 
25^th September 2020*.

Delegate fees for /Cine-Excess 14 /are £50/£25 (concessions) for 
attendance at the online/streamed version of the 2020 event. This 
includes entrance to all conference activities, 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 <http://www.cine-excess.co.uk> .

* /Cine-Excess/ has and will continue 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.

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