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

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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