[ecrea] CFP Conference -- Andrew Davies: the screenwriter as adaptor

CFP -- Andrew Davies: the screenwriter as adaptor

Friday 18th March 2016, De Montfort University, Leicester

Keynote and plenary discussion with Andrew Davies

In celebration of the newly acquired Andrew Davies archive, the Centre 
of Adaptations and Centre for Textual Studies, De Montfort University, 
are hosting a one-day conference on the British screenwriter. Alongside 
entering into a conversation about the writer’s oeuvre, conference 
delegates will be invited to attend a discussion with Davies and visit a 
new exhibition at De Montfort University’s Heritage Centre. Archival 
materials on display will include original scripts from some of Davies’ 
most loved adaptations, such as Pride and Prejudice, alongside letters 
and notes between Davies and his collaborators.

Davies is perhaps most famous for his work on the BBC’s 1995 Pride and 
Prejudice with his vision of Darcy becoming one of the most enduring 
images of late 20th century popular culture. Beside revisiting Darcy 
with commercially successful adaptations of Helen Fielding’s modern-day 
adaptation of Pride and Prejudice - Bridget Jones’s Diary - however, 
Davies’ legacy is wide-ranging in terms of classic-novel, contemporary 
fiction adaptations and his own original scripts and authored books.

This conference thus seeks to initiate a critical appraisal of Davies’ 
work, situating analysis of individual productions within the context of 
a wider oeuvre and interrogating the role of the screenwriter/adaptor 
within the adaptive process.  We invite abstracts of no more than 300 
words for 20-minute papers that address Davies’ work or, more broadly, 
the role of the screenwriter/adaptor in the adaptation process. We also 
welcome expressions of interest for panels on a specific theme or topic.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

·         The role of the screenwriter in adaptation
·         The adaptation industry
·         The heritage industry
·         The BBC
·         Marketing period drama
·         Adapting historical fiction
·         Adapting the literary canon
·         Classic novel adaptation
·         Authorship
·         Television drama
·         Gender and race in period adaptation

Successful papers will be considered for publication in a special 
edition of the Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance.
Please email abstracts as well as queries or expressions of interest to 
both organisers by January 31st 2016, Anna Blackwell, 
(anna.blackwell /at/ dmu.ac.uk) and Natalie Hayton, (natalie.hayton /at/ dmu.ac.uk). 
Please include your name, research area and affiliation (if applicable) 
in all correspondence.

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