The Literature Film Association

The conference will be held at https://us05web.zoom.us/j/85206438715.

When you join, you will enter a waiting room and be admitted by the session host. If you have any issues or concerns, please contact litfilmconference@gmail.com.

SCHEDULE

Friday, November 6, 2020

All times are in Eastern Standard Time.

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10:00 AM to 11:00 AM         Session 1                Identity and Adaptation

Moderator: Allen Redmon, Texas A&M University-Central Texas

• Kristen Figgins, University of Arkansas, “Taming the Jungle: Adaptation and Appropriation”
• JL Wright, University of Arkansas, “Bitch Rhetoric: Planetary Accusation or Proclamation?”
• John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University, “Identity is Adaptation”

11:15 AM to 12:15 PM        Session 2                Medium and Adaptation I

Moderator: Amanda Konkle, Georgia Southern University-Armstrong

• J. Rocky Colavito, Butler University, “If Literature Inspires Film, What Does Film Inspire?”
• John Sanders, Syracuse University, “For Whom is it Faithful? Players, Protagonists, and Game Adaptations”
• Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware, “Is Adaptation a Medium–and If Not, Why Not?”

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM           Session 3                Medium and Adaptation II

Moderator: Ed Cameron, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

• Pamela Demory, University of California, Davis, “How Plays Adapt: The Example of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America”
• David Pelligrini, Eastern Connecticut State University, “Ipseity & Inheritance: New Trends in Identity Construction in Stage & Screen Adaptations”
• Linda Belau, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, “Representing Extremity: Adaptation as Working Through”

1:45 PM to 2:45 PM            Annual Business Meeting

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM            Session 4                Children’s Culture and Adaptation

Moderator: Pete Kunze, Tulane University

• Will Stanford Abbiss, Victoria University of Wellington, “Big Words and Big Ideas: The Reconstruction of Cultural Identity in Anne with an E”
• Madeleine Hunter, University of Cambridge, “Consolidating the Magic Kingdom: Disney’s Live-Action Remakes and the Corporation as Storyworld”
• Rebecca Rowe, University of Connecticut, “From Children’s Literature to Co-Viewing Media: How Adaptations Reveal Differences in Adult/Child Audiences”

 4:15 PM to 5:15 PM            Session 5                History and Adaptation

Moderator: Pete Kunze, Tulane University

• Robert Ribera, Portland State University, “Race, History, and Adaptation in the Era of Trump: Watchmen and Lovecraft Country”
• Jack Ryan, Gettysburg College, “A Bob Dylan Story: Martin Scorsese Adapts the Past”
• Michael Mirabile, Lewis & Clark College, “From Pathology to Symbology: The Manchurian Candidate on Page and Screen”

5:30 PM to 6:30 PM            Session 6                Ideology and Adaptation

Moderator: Allen Redmon, Texas A&M University-Central Texas

• Marton Marko, University of Montana, “Borderline Bargains. Dealing with István Szabó’s Mephisto”
• Jaedyn A. Baker, Hudson Luthringshausen, and Mattie K. Norman, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, “Complicit vs. Interrogative Spectatorship: Ideology and Closure in Miller’s 300 and HBO’s Watchmen”
• Mads Larsen, University of California, Los Angeles, “Adapting Ibsen’s Nietzschean Ideology to Nazism, Democratic Populism, Empathetic Humanism, and Pitch-Black Neoliberalist Gloom”