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We invite paper proposals for:

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, Birmingham City University
[xavier.mendik@bcu.ac.uk](mailto:xavier.mendik@bcu.ac.uk){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"} and  
Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton
[F.E.Pheasant-kelly@wlv.ac.uk](mailto:F.E.Pheasant-kelly@wlv.ac.uk){target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}

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](http://www.cine-excess.co.uk){target="_blank"
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