UPDATE: Journeys Across Media: The Limits of Adaptation (grad) (UK) (2/28/05; 4/22/05)

Please note the extended deadline for the submission of proposals.

JOURNEYS ACROSS MEDIA: THE LIMITS OF ADAPTATION
JAM 2005, at the University of Reading, UK
Friday 22 April 2005

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Journeys Across Media (JAM) forum 2005 is a one-day conference organised
by postgraduate students. We warmly invite postgraduates working on film,
theatre, television and 'new media' to present and discuss their research.

This year we want to address 'adaptation' in any form, to examine the
possibilities and limitations--as well as politics, reasons and
consequences--behind the processes involved in various kinds of textual
modification, medial transition and migration. Our culture constantly
reuses and repurposes texts and performances in numerous contexts, and we
propose to inspect the dynamics and results of this. Many possible
considerations apply, and a few broad ones are suggested below.

AUDIENCES--MEDIA--TEXTS

If adaptation is motivated or informed by pursuit of a particular audience,
how might the migration of material to a new medium seek to gain a new
audience or re-exploit its existing one? What happens when material is
redeveloped in its original medium?

How is the adaptation of a work guided, challenged or informed by the
specific possibilities or limitations of a particular medium? How and why
might one medium accept or otherwise respond to material originally
presented in another?

Can material lend itself to, or resist, re-presentation in a new medium?
How can the presentational possibilities or limitations of a medium resonate
in a particular work? How is material affected by dispersal over, or
integration of, multiple media?

The conference fee will be UKP17, including refreshments and lunch.
The day is expected to run from 10am to 5pm.

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes. Please send proposals of up to 300
words plus a biographical note by Monday 28 February 2005 to:

Ivana Brozic/Dave Hipple
JAM 2005
The Department of Film, Theatre and Television
University of Reading
Bulmershe Court
Reading, RG6 1HY

or email jamforum2005_at_hotmail.com

Visit the JAM 2004 website at www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/Research/jam2005.htm

JAM 2005 is supported by the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, and the
Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading.

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