CFP: Film Adaptation (3/1/04; CCLA, 5/30/04-6/1/04)

From: Goggin, J. (J.Goggin@uva.nl)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 09:33:00 EST


Special Session: Film Adaptation

Canadian Comparative Literature Association
Association canadienne de litt=E9rature compar=E9e

UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA
30 MAY - 1 JUNE /30 MAI - 1 JUIN 2004

>From Text to Film and Back: Rethinking Adaptation

Although literature would seem to have obvious connections to film, =
literary adaptation is an area of inquiry that remains remarkably =
under-theorised. Attempts to theorise film adaptation often address the =
problematic in terms of deviance or fidelity, and thereby implicitly or =
explicitly privileged the text over its filmed version. The goal of this =
session on film adaptations of literary works is to look beyond film in =
terms of judgements on perceptual correctness or the hackneyed =
categories of transposition, commentary and analogy. We welcome papers =
that address adaptation in innovative ways and challenge classic =
approaches to the filmed text. Topics may include but are not limited to =
self-conscious adaptations, films that thematise the practice of =
adaptation, and papers that consider the possibility that the concept of =
influence works between texts and film in more than one direction.=20

Please submitt abstracts of no more than 250 words by March 1, 2004 to:

Joyce Goggin
j.goggin@uva.nl

OR

Dr. J. Goggin
Herengracht 182
1016 BA Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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