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[ecrea] Call for Papers - Issues of Value in Film Adaptation

Fri May 03 00:22:32 GMT 2013



Issues of Value in Film Adaptation
We believe that there is a need for a work that problematizes issues of value by showing how they are contingent on numerous factors – historical, political, artistic as well as industrial. With this in mind, we are publishing an anthology of around 10-15 chapters with McFarland & Co., that deals with adaptations or remakes of works, and how audiences and/or readers arrive at a value judgement concerning which text is “superior to” or “better than” another. We will incorporate comparative analyses, looking at adapted texts and their relationship to their sources, as well as ethnographic studies looking at the ways in which readers and audiences have responded to texts, and how their conceptions of value have been constructed. The book will cover theoretical interventions on the issue, as well as case-studies, using films, books, and other texts as examples.

Some of the topics covered will include:
· ‘Original’ vs. ‘adapted’ texts; how the concepts are culturally constructed and carry different values in different cultures · The history of ‘originality’ – its origins in the development of print cultures, the development of copyright, and how it is a particularly ‘western’ issue – and the implications for conceptions of ‘value’
· Conceptions of a ‘remake’ or a ‘reissue’ and the value attached to them
· Authorship – the role of the author in shaping questions of value; the value placed on ‘creativity’; the creation of canons in literature, film, and other media; how canons shape issues of value · Global vs. Local issues: the relationship between ‘universality’ and value; issues of cultural and media imperialism; capitalism and the creation of financial ‘value’; resistance to globalism through local constructions of ‘value’ ·‘Academic’ vs. ‘popular’ conceptions of value – the role of hegemonies (academic, literary, media) in shaping questions of value; the specialization of knowledge; the significance of ‘theory’ as a guarantee of value ·Alternative constructions of value – how they are shaped by generational, social, cultural and technological questions, for example online communities; fan communities; blogs · Temporal questions of value: how conceptions of value change over time and space.

Contributions should be around 5,000 to 9,000 words written in MLA style. Proposals for the topic should be addressed to Berkem Gürenci Saglam ((bgurenci /at/ baskent.edu.tr)), or Laurence Raw ((l_rawjalaurence /at/ yahoo.com)). They should be received by October 15, 2013, Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by December 15, 2013.


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