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Extended Deadline 12/2/12

Call for Papers
Adaptation: Film, Literature and Culture

SWTX PCA/ACA 34th Annual Conference
February 13-16, 2013

Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, in the Adaptation area, a long-standing, well-represented area with a history of excellent presentations.

The Adaptation area this year encompasses traditional approaches to adaptation, including

Adaptation Theory
Novel to Film Adaptation
Novel to TV, TV to Film, or Film to TV Adaptations
Genre Adaptation (homage, parody, etc)
Stage to Screen Adaptation (Excluding Shakespeare)
Film Remakes (Dredd, Total Recall, The Amazing Spiderman, Red Dawn, etc)
Games, Songs, Cartoons, Graphic Novels, and Comic Books to Film Adaptation

Special Topics this year include

Sherlock Holmes Adaptations (Guy Ritchie, BBC, CBS, etc.)
The Hobbit
On the Road

Graduate students are encouraged to submit their papers to the Post Script Graduate Student Award or to other awards, as appropriate. Please visit http://swtxpca.org/documents/48.html for a complete listing of the awards.

Please send inquiries regarding this area to Lynnea Chapman King at lynneaking@hotmail.com.

Submissions must be entered directly into the conference database at http://conference2013.swtxpca.org/. Submission deadline is 12/2/12. Submissions must include a current CV, a working bibliography, and a 250-word abstract.

For additional information on travel, registration, and available awards, please visit the SWTX website at swtxpca.org.