CFP: Literature and Film Adaptation (9/25/03; 1/29/04-2/1/04)

CFP: Literature, Film Adaptation, and the Hollywood Production Code.
Conference: 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film (Tallahassee, FL;
1/29/04-2/1/04)
Deadline for this panel: September 25, 2003

This panel will examine the interaction between literature and film at one of
its most visible, complex, and--despite its ubiquity--critically under-examined
sites of convergence: the film adaptation. While the approaches to this broad
topic are vast, this panel hopes to limit its scope to the industrial
conditions and pressures that determine choices in adaptations to film and
(even more narrowly, if possible) the ensuing contact between these texts and
the Hollywood Production Code's censorship mandates.

Successful abstracts (of less than 300 words) might focus on:
The influence levied by the Code/censorship boards in determining the
aesthetic, thematic, or industrial success or failure of particular film
adaptations.
The role film adaptations played in the development, implementation, execution,
and/or ultimate dissolution of the Code.
An investigation of the industrial, economic, or artistic motivations that
encouraged particular studios to obtain rights to literary properties.
The individual economic, ideological, and/or aesthetic factors that influence
the manner in which original source materials were or are developed, produced,
and marketed for contemporary audiences.

Please submit (via email) abstracts of less than 300 words no later than
September 25, 2003 to aperlman_at_mail.utexas.edu or kyle.d.edwards_at_mail.utexas.edu

See http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2004/ for more information on this
conference.

For more information on this panel, please contact Allison Perlman at
aperlman_at_mail.utexas.edu or 512-383-9864 or Kyle Edwards at
kyle.d.edwards_at_mail.utexas.edu or 512-502-0350

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