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CALL FOR PAPERS -- Literature and Film
Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature
Cortland College of the State University of New York, Cortland, NY
October 3-5, 1999
"Illumination and Excess: The Literary Adaptation Meets Film History"
Any abstracts that address literary adaptation in film are welcome, but I
am particularly interested in abstracts/papers that approach cinematic
adaptations of literary texts in the context of film history and national
cinema traditions. How do the historical, cultural, and perhaps even
technological context within which a particular adaptation was produced
affect the adaptation in subtle and not-so-subtle ways? Some films might
be said to "illuminate" previously obscure aspects or implications of
literary works, while others might "exceed" the perceived meanings of the
original work, changing it utterly in its translation to a different medium
and a different historical/cultural moment (examples: the use of a James M.
Cain source novel for one of the earliest Italian neo-realist films,
OSSESSIONE; avant-garde vs. "popular" adaptations of Poe, Emily Brontė,
Shakespeare, Austen, etc.; translations of stream of consciousness and
other tools of literary modernism into film; the uses of widescreen in
historical "epic" adaptations; etc.)
Please send an abstract (limit 500 words) or complete papers (limit 8-9 pp)
and a 1-page vita by June 15, 1999 to:
Paul Young (session chair)
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
686 Cherry St.
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
(404) 894-1025
email: <paul.young@lcc.gatech.edu>
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