CFP: Adaptation: SWTX PCA/ACA (2/13-16 2013) Due: 11/16/12

Kenneth Nolley <[email protected]>
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From: Lynnea Chapman King <[email protected]>

Call for Papers: Adaptation: Film, Literature and Culture

34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Associations
Conference
February 13-16, 2013

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center
http://swtxpca.org


Proposal submission deadline: November 16, 2012

Join us this year, as a returning or first-time participant, in the
Adaptation area, a long standing, well-represented area with outstanding
past presentations.

The Adaptation Area this year encompasses traditional approaches to
adaption, including:
Adaptation theory
Novel-to-film, novel-to-TV, TV-to-film, or film-to-TV adaptations
Genre adaptation (homage, parody, etc.)
Stage-to-screen adaptation (excluding Shakespeare)
Film remakes (Dredd, Total Recall, The Amazing Spiderman, Red Dawn, etc.)
Games, songs, cartoons, graphic novels and comic books to film adaptation

Special topics this year include:
Sherlock Holmes  (including the Guy Ritchie, BBC, and CBS adaptations)
The Hobbit
On the Road

Graduate students are encouraged to submit their papers to the Post Script
Graduate Student Award or to other awards, as appropriate.  Please visit
http://swtxpca.org/documents/48.html for a complete listing of the awards.

Please send inquiries regarding this area to Lynnea Chapman King at
[email protected].

Submissions must be entered directly into the conference database at
http://conference2013.swtxpca.org/.  Submission deadline is November 16,
2012.  Submissions should include a current curriculum vitae, a working
bibliography, and a 250-word abstract.
For additional information, including a list of available awards, hotel and
registration information, and conference registration, please visit the
SW/TX PCA/ACA website at swtxpca.org.
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