HWA Academics

Confirmed Guest of Honour: Pam Grier (Jackie Brown, Coffy, Scream Blacula Scream)

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

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

(Online conference and streamed festival and screening season)

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, 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).

Cine-Excess 14 is hosted in association with Birmingham City University and the Black Sands Educational Project. It features an online academic conference alongside film industry panels and a streamed film festival season of related UK premieres and retrospectives.*

For its 14th annual edition, Cine-Excess is presented 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 6th 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 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:

• From Cause Célèbre to Cultural Icon: New Readings of Pam Grier and Performativity
• Manipulating the Mainstream: Jordan Peele and the New Politics of Race Horror
• Between Genres and Against the Grain: Female Voices in Cult and Extreme Cinema
• The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Horror Remakes
• Representation as Weapons: Cult Cinema at Key Points of Historical Conflict
• Race Re-Framed: New Readings of Blaxploitation Cinema Cycles
• Inclusion in Excess: Using the Extreme Image in Educational and Pedagogic Practices
• Classic and Contemporary Images of Black American Horror
• From Diversity to Deviance: The Struggle for Sexual Identity in Marginal Film
• Screening Diversity, Consent and Desire in Marginal Film and Digital Sex/Pornography
• Coloniser, Colonised and Cult: Film Narratives and the Struggle for Representation
• Bodies as Battlegrounds:  LGBTQ+ Representations and Intimacies
• Terrifying Outsiders: Migrant Traumas and Regional Conflicts in Cult Film Narratives
• "Gypsies", Roma and Nomads: Cult Representations of Travellers and Traveller Communities
• Dubbed but Highly Dangerous: The Political Reception of European Radical Film Texts 
• Transnational and Trash: Conflicted Notions of Nationhood in Pulp Cinema
• Margins Within Margins: Black Trans-representation in Film
• Disability, Diversity and Representation in Cult Cinema 
• Scoring the Resistance: Cult Soundtracks as Symbols of Rebellion 
• Screening Rights and the Battle for Embodiment: Trans and Non-Binary Voices on Screen 
• Split: Framing Mental Health in Exploitation Cinema 
• Framing the Forgotten: Dispossessed UK Communities on Screen
• Bodies as Weapons: Classic and Contemporary Case-Studies of Subversive Cult Performers
• Diverse Voices in Distribution: New Organisations and Patterns of Screen Disruption
• Cult on Cults: Fictional Representations of Real Life Marginal Communities

Over the past 14 years 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 and 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@cine-excess.co.uk

Dr Gemma Commane
Co-Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival
gemma.commane@cine-excess.co.uk

Jo Delyse-Packwood
Co-Director of the Cine-Excess International Film Festival
jo.delyse.packwood@cine-excess.co.uk

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

Delegate fees for Cine-Excess 14 are £50/£25 (concessions) for attendance at 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.

* 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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Apollo Publishers welcomes submissions of proposals and manuscripts.

We are exclusively publishing timely and topical nonfiction for adult trade audiences. Topics may cover a broad spectrum as long as they are relevant today and are likely to be relevant in the years to come. Our books range in length from 60,000 to 120,000 words. Please include a short book description and author bio.
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Conference Dates: Thursday, May 20, 2021 - Sunday, May 23, 20201
Conference Hotel: The Curtis Hotel, 1405 Curtis Street, Denver, CO 80202
Conference Website: http://stokercon2021.com

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference co-chairs invite all interested scholars, academics, and non-fiction writers to submit presentation abstracts related to horror studies for consideration to be presented at the fourth annual StokerCon which will be held May 20 - 23, 2021 in Denver, CO.
The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is an opportunity for individuals to present on completed research or work-in-progress horror studies projects that continue the dialogue of academic analysis of the horror genre.  As in prior years, we are looking for completed research or work-in-progress projects that can be presented to with the intent to expand the scholarship on various facets of horror that proliferates in:

    • Art
    • Cinema
    • Comics
    • Literature
    • Music
    • Poetry
    • Television
    • Video Games
    • Etc.

We invite papers that take an interdisciplinary approach to their subject matter and can apply a variety of lenses and frameworks, such as, but not limited to:

    • Auteur theory
    • Close textual analysis
    • Comparative analysis
    • Cultural and ethnic
    • Fandom and fan studies
    • Film studies
    • Folklore
    • Gender/LGBT studies
    • Historic analysis
    • Interpretations
    • Linguistic
    • Literature studies
    • Media and communications
    • Media Sociology
    • Modernity/Postmodernity
    • Mythological
    • Psychological
    • Racial studies
    • Semiotics
    • Theoretical (Adorno, Barthes, Baudrillard, Dyer, Gerbner, etc.)
    • Transmedia
    • And others

Conference Details

    • Please send a 250 – 300 word abstract on your intended topic, a preliminary bibliography, and your CV to AnnRadCon@gmail.com by November 30, 2020. Responses will be emailed out during the month of December. Final acceptances will require proof of StokerCon registration.
    • Presentation time consideration: 15 minute maximum to allow for a Question and Answer period. Limit of one presentation at the conference.
    • There are no honorariums for presenters.
    • In support of HWA’s Diverse Works Inclusion Committee goals, the Ann Radcliffe Academic co-chairs encourage the widest possible diverse representation to apply and present their scholarship in a safe and supportive environment. More information at: http://horror.org/category/the-seers-table/
    • Please subscribe the StokerCon’s Newsletter to keep abreast for the latest conference information. 

Organizing Co-Chairs
Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak
Email: AnnRadCon@gmail.com

The Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference is part of the Horror Writers Association’s Outreach Program. Created in 2016 by Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak, the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference has been a venue for horror scholars to present their work. The conference has also been the genesis of the Horror Writer Association’s first academic release, Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays, comprised entirely of AnnRadCon presenters and was released by McFarland in February, 2020.

Membership to the Horror Writers Association is not required to submit or present, however registration to StokerCon 2021 is required for to be accepted and to present. StokerCon registration can be obtained by going to https://stokercon-uk.com/. There is no additional registration or fees for the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference outside StokerCon registration. If interested in applying to the Horror Writer’s Association as an academic member, please see www.horror.org/about/ .
StokerCon is the annual convention hosted by the Horror Writers Association wherein the Bram Stoker Awards for superior achievement in horror writing are awarded.

Deadline: September 30, 2020
Email: megan.devirgilis@morgan.edu

The Gothic is having a moment, as it tends to do in times of collective panic and uncertainty. Even Latin America, whose geographical, linguistic and historical distinctiveness have supported its all-but-exclusion from global Gothic Studies, has experienced a rise in scholarship on contemporary Gothic horror—from studies on the double and hybridity to zombies and cannibals, among others. Typically excluded from this narrative, however, are theories on the origins and early representations of the Gothic, and how regional, linguistic and historical particularities nourished a Latin American Gothic tradition that, although indebted to its European Gothic predecessors, deviated from it in unique and meaningful ways. There has been some debate over the circulation of translations throughout Latin America: Did Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories, for example, circulate in French or, decades later, in English, and to what extent did his formal experimentation influence Latin American writers? This panel diverts from this limited scope of inquiry, suggesting instead a broader perspective that examines the complexity of literary currents, their subcategories, and their subjective means of classification. Why is it that Latin American literary scholarship only begins to use the term Gothic in reference to Carlos Fuentes when Eduardo Wilde, Juana Manuela Gorriti and Horacio Quiroga, among others, were experimenting with Gothic trappings, the occult and suspense? The purpose of this panel is to revisit Latin American literary works previously associated with more “respectable” and “valuable” literary currents in terms of the Gothic and a unique Latin American Gothic literary tradition. Of particular interest are theoretical approaches that revisit modernista, romantic and fantastic literature through a Gothic lens. Collectively, this panel will deepen scholarship on the dialectics at the heart of cultural production in the region: civilization/barbarity, indigenous/European, monstrous/homogenous, etc.

Please submit abstracts here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/18591

Punctum Books

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