Nine of the ten highest-grossing Hollywood movies of 2014 were based on creative properties from children's and youth culture, including comic books, novels, and toys. In line with this year's theme of In Concert: Literature and the Other Arts, I welcome papers that examine adaptation, compare media (broadly defined), and/or explore transmedia storytelling. While papers on recent adaptations are particularly encouraged, this panel seeks a variety of new, productive perspectives on adapting children's and youth culture for various media, including film, television, and online media. Moving beyond familiar discussions of fidelity, prospective papers might consider genre, representation, intertextuality, aesthetics, reception, authorship, and production studies. I also welcome papers that consider something other than book-to-film, like toy-to-film (G.I. Joe or The Lego Movie) or theme park attraction-to-film (Pirates of the Caribbean, Tomorrowland), etc. If I have a robust enough response, we might also discuss a special journal issue or edited collection in the future.

Please submit 250-word proposals to Pete Kunze (pkunze@utexas.edu) by May 15, 2015.

Inquiries welcome!