18/7/2014 - Get ready for the country at this year's Cine-Excess International Film Conference and Festival

Cine-Excess is an annual international film festival and conference, which aims to bring together top scholars and critics with global cult filmmakers. It will be taking place at The University of Brighton from the 14th to the 16th of November. This year's edition will be subtitled "Are You Ready for the Country: Cult Cinema and Rural Excess"


To coincide with the 40th anniversary of Tobe Hooper and kim Henkel's classic and ground breaking The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, thie eighth edition of Cine-Excess will consider cult representations of the rural space and its inhabitants, analysing the extent to which depictions of the countryside often reveal fascinating issues of class, race and regional distinction.

In order to explore these themes further, exploited in other classics such as Deliverance (1972) and Southern Comfort (1981), Cine Excess will consider the wide variety of representations of the cult countryside from a range of differing theoretical and methodological perspectives, while also considering larger national notions of the rural space in film, TV, literature, comics and digital media. Proposals are now invited for papers on any aspect of rural excess with a final listing of accepted presentations will be released on September 17th.

Previous guests of honour to the annual Cine-Excess have included Catherine Breillat, Franco Nero, Dario Argento, Vanessa Redgrave and Roger Corman.