CFP: [Collections] "Salman Rushdie and Cinema"

>From cameo appearances in films, to drawing on Western and Bollywood
cinema as both inspiration for his fictional narratives and as subject of
his cultural criticism, Salman Rushdie has always been involved in
cinema. Papers are invited for an anthology tentatively entitled “Salman
Rushdie and Cinema” that seeks to shed light on Rushdie’s work and its
intersection with film as text and as culture industry. Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- Rushdie as actor (e.g. Then She Found Me, Bridget Jones’s Diary,
Peter’s Friends;
- Rushdie’s novels as cinematic texts;
- Rushdie’s characters as film actors (e.g. Gibreel Farishta as a
Bollywood superstar of religious epics in The Satanic Verses);
- Rushdie and Bollywood/Western cinema;
- Rushdie as film critic;
- Attempts to adapt to screen Rushdie’s novels and short stories (e.g.
The Ground Beneath her Feet, The Firebird’s Nest);
- Midnight’s Children and its screenplay.
Please send abstracts of up to 500 words, including a short cv, to Ana
Mendes (anafmendes_at_gmail.com), University of Lisbon Center for English
Studies, by 1 July 2008.

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