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
adapted to the screen, but in a larger context of mimesis,
influence, and intertextuality.
This section of the American Culture Association is looking
for papers on any aspect of adaptation. This includes papers
treating the adaptation of literature to film and other new media,
film and other new media to literature, literature to literature, etc.
("Literature" is defined broadly here to include everything from
novels and biographies to children's books and comics.)
Although we welcome a broad range of topics and subject matter,
we are particularly interested this year in papers that apply the
theoretical work of Stam, Naremore, and others to largely
unexplored questions of intercultural adaptations. How, for
instance, was a film like "We Were Soldiers," shown in most
South American countries under the title "We Were Heroes,"
adapted for non-US audiences? Or what adaptations occur,
as one paper in Atlanta discussed, when Spiderman comic
books are produced in Hindi? Another recent paper examined
how one might adapt a popular Brazilian novel for the British
Stage. These intercultural adaptations exemplify some of the
most interesting relationships in literary/cinematic/new media
texts.
Please send 150-250 word abstracts by November 1, 2006
to Dr. Dennis Cutchins via email at dennis_cutchins_at_byu.edu.
Or by regular mail to:
Dr. Dennis Cutchins
English Department
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
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