[Bilimsel Haber] "Literature of the Cinema: Fiction/Non-Fiction into Film."

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Literature of the Cinema MMLA Chicago, Nov. 9-12, 2006

"Literature of the Cinema: Fiction/Non-Fiction into Film."

According to Frederic Jameson, the cinema is considered the most
prodigious form of the art of intertextualization in the post modern era
because films are readily accessible to all members of society and can
be interpreted with an array of meanings. How do film adaptations fit
into the scheme of intertextualization that Jameson describes? How do
screen adaptations offer fresh approaches to cinematic art, literary
theory, and cultural politics? This year’s panel will explore cinematic
adaptations from fiction or non-fiction that speak to any of the
following ideas/issues: addressing the current cultural climate,
negotiating and/or undermining the boundaries between high and low
culture, reading the contemporary into the past, reading the past into
the contemporary, and portraying the subjective “I.”

Send abstracts by April 15 to:

Micki Nyman
St. Louis University, English Department
Humanities Bldg.
3800 Lindell
St. Louis, MO 63108
USA

Email: nyman at slu.edu