UPDATE: Masterpiece Theater and Cultural Imagination (3/14/03; MLA '03)

The deadline has been extended for the following proposed special session
for 2003 MLA meeting in San Diego. Please send email submissions only.

Following the recent Exxon-Mobil decision to withdraw funding, we invite
abstracts that consider Masterpiece Theater as a cultural phenomenon. What
is its place in the public imagination? Who watches it? How does it
contribute to/complicate public perception of the literary works it adapts?

Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

* Cultural literacies

* Canon formation and revision

* Public television as private interest

* Alistair Cooke vs. Russell Baker

* As pedagogical tool (in the classroom, on the web)

* The American Collection

* Responses to specific adaptations/productions

Please send 250-word abstracts, 1page CV, and contact information to:

Cathrine Frank

frankco_at_email.uc.edu

Deadline for submission is March 14, 2003. Email submissions only.

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