CFP: Adaptation (11/1/06; PCA/ACA, 4/4/07-4/7/07)
ADAPTATION ADAPTING CULTURE IN LITERATURE, FILM, AND NEW MEDIA
Deadline for Abstracts: Nov 1, 2006
For the 2007 Popular Culture Association (PCA)/
American Culture Association (ACA) Conference
in Boston, Massachusetts, from April 4th to April 7th.
Adaptation studies, long the step-child to both literary studies
and film studies, has begun to mature into its own discipline
spanning the gaps between film, literature, and translation
studies. Since at least the time of George Bluestone a handful
of scholars has worked to understand adaptation not simply
as a way of thinking about literary works that have been