[Commlist] cfp - Reboot • Repurpose • Recycle

Literature/Film Association Annual Conference

*REBOOT • REPURPOSE • RECYCLE*

September 12-14, 2019

University of Oregon in Portland

Portland, Oregon, USA

Keynotes: Amanda Ann Klein, East Carolina University, and Matt 
McCormick, Gonzaga University

In holding this year’s conference in downtown Portland, one of the most 
environmentally conscious cities in the United States, we invite 
attendees to consider the themes of “repurpose” and “recycle,” broadly 
conceived. What function—socially, politically, and economically—do 
sequels, remakes, and reboots serve in media culture? How do reboots and 
remakes allow creators and audiences to not only revisit, but reimagine 
familiar narratives? What historical precedents might we return to in 
our attempts to better understand the nature and influence of series, 
serials, and (trans)media franchises today? And how might adaptation 
studies play a vital role in these critical discussions? While we 
welcome papers on any aspect of adaptation studies, we are especially 
interested in presentations that address one or more of the following 
concerns (or similar topics):

•        transmedia storytelling

•        media franchising

•        recombinant culture

•        questions of authorship in adaptation

•        film genres and genre cycles

•        economic and industrial perspectives on remakes

•        rebooting television series

•        evaluating sequels, remakes, and reboots

•        the question of originality and artistry in adaptation

•        environmental media and ecocritical perspectives

•        ecocinema and ecomedia

•        media and the anthropocene

•        historical precedents in series, serial, and franchise storytelling

•        formalist and narratological approaches to series, serial, and 
franchise storytelling

•        narrative extensions into new media, including video games

•        the impact of #OscarsSoWhite and #MeToo on reimagining adaptation

•        teaching adaptation

The LFA also welcomes work in media studies, more broadly. We have 
significant interest in broader studies of American and international 
cinema, film and technology, television, new media, and other cultural 
or political issues connected to the moving image. In addition to 
academic papers, presentation proposals about pedagogy or from creative 
writers, artists, and filmmakers are also welcome.

We are excited to feature two outstanding keynote speakers this year:

*Amanda Ann Klein*, Associate Professor of Film Studies in the English 
Department at East Carolina University, is author of /American Film 
Cycles: Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, & Defining 
Subcultures/ (University of Texas Press, 2011) and co-editor 
of/Multiplicities: Cycles, Sequels, Remakes and Reboots in Film & 
Television/ (University of Texas Press, 2016). Her manuscript, /Identity 
Killed the Video Star: A Cultural History of MTV Reality Programming/, 
is under contract with Duke University Press. Her scholarship has 
appeared in /Quarterly Review of Film and Video/, /Jump Cut/, /Film 
Criticism/, /Flow/, /Antenna/, /Salon/, /The Atlantic/, /The Chronicle 
of Higher Education/, /Inside Higher Ed/, and /The New Yorker/.

*Matt McCormick* has for many years been a key figure in the Portland 
art and film scene and is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated 
Media & Art at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. Matt’s work crosses 
mediums and defies genre distinctions to fashion witty, abstract 
observations of contemporary culture and the urban landscape.  His 
films, which include /The/ /Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal/, /Some 
Days Are Better Than Others/, /The Great Northwest/, and /Buzz One 
Four/, have screened in venues ranging from the Sundance Film Festival 
to the Museum of Modern Art, and have been critically acclaimed by /The 
New York Times/, /Art Forum/, and many other media outlets.  Matt has 
also directed music videos for bands including The Shins, 
Sleater-Kinney, and Broken Bells.

Please submit your proposal via this Google Form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1I80wkzCaQwJNkIb_i1DIy1VVKn1qS5oqRzNn8MS8qKU/viewform?edit_requested=true> by 
May 15, 2019. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Pete Kunze 
(atlitfilmconference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(litfilmconference /at/ gmail.com)>. 
Accepted presenters will be notified by June 1.

All sessions will be held at the University of Oregon in Portland, 
located at 70 NW Couch St. in downtown Portland. Limited travel grant 
support is planned to be available for select graduate students, 
non-tenure-track faculty, and/or independent scholars and artists. 
Details for an added application process for such support will be shared 
following proposal acceptances.

The conference registration fee is $200 ($150 for students and retirees) 
before August 1, 2019 and $225 ($175 for students and retirees) 
thereafter. All conference attendees must also be current members of the 
Literature/Film Association, and all presenters must be registered by 
September 1 to appear on the final conference program. Annual dues are 
$20. To register for the conference and pay dues following acceptance of 
your proposal, visit the Literature/Film Association website at 
http://litfilm.org/conference and use our PayPal feature.

Presenters will be invited to submit their work to the /Literature/Film 
Quarterly/ for potential publication. For details on the journal’s 
submission requirements, visit www.salisbury.edu/lfq 
<http://www.salisbury.edu/lfq>.

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