[Commlist] LFA 2020: Work & Play CFP

*WORK & PLAY*

2020 Literature/Film Association Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

November 5-November 7

Keynote: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University

Holding the annual conference of the Literature/Film Association in New 
Orleans raises questions of labor and leisure in relation to adaptation 
in the study of literature, film, and media. Not only has the city 
served as the home to writers and filmmakers, but it also has become a 
major media capital in its own right, enticing television and film 
production with tax incentives and its distinctive culture. As “work” 
and “play” have motivated a good deal of recent scholarship across 
literature, film, and media studies, we invite presentations that put 
these concerns in conversation with adaptation, broadly defined. While 
we welcome papers on any aspect of film and media studies, we are 
especially interested in presentations that address one or more of the 
following concerns regarding work or play:

  * the work behind adapting into a different medium
  * labor and cultural production
  * authorship and adaptation
  * the workplace as cultural intersection/metaphor in literature, film,
    and media
  * production studies and below-the-line labor
  * play in cultural production
  * teaching adaptation and adapting teaching
  * labor, social change, and adaptation
  * adaptation as textual play
  * game play as adaptation
  * games as adaptations or adapting games
  * play in analyzing and interpreting text
  * plays as adaptations or adapting plays into a different medium
  * performance as adaptation

We also have significant interest in general 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.

Vicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. Her 
research encompasses media and communication industries, their political 
economies, infrastructures, and their organizational work cultures. Her 
publications seek to theorize and illustrate how these industries shape 
workers and how media and communication work shapes workers and 
citizens. Her theories inform her work in the digital humanities and 
pedagogy, most recently on ViaNolaVie and NewOrleansHistorical. Her 
books include /Producing Dreams, Consuming Youth: Mexican Americans and 
Mass Media/; /Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the 
New Television Economy/; and /Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The 
Lure of the Local Film Economy/.

We also will be holding a special screening of /Suddenly, Last Summer/, 
the 1959 Joseph L. Mankiewicz film adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ 
controversial play, with a screenplay by Williams and Gore Vidal. A 
panel discussion will follow.

Please submit your proposal via this Google form 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScv5dhgfCt_APAh5huco3Xgj1CVnK5sj7lKyz21tKWJWhHXXw/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1> 
by July 1, 2020. If you have any questions or concerns, contact Pete 
Kunze at (litfilmconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(litfilmconference /at/ gmail.com)>. Accepted presenters will be 
notified by July 15, and the conference program will be available by 
August 1.

The conference hotel rate of $179/night is available at the Four Points 
Sheraton French Quarter*.* Limited travel grant support is planned to be 
available for select graduate students, non-tenure-track faculty, and/or 
independent scholars and artists. We also will award Best Graduate 
Student Paper. Details for an added application process for such support 
will be shared following proposal acceptances in July.

The conference registration fee is $200 ($150 for students and retirees) 
before October 1, 2020 and $225 ($175 for students and retirees) 
thereafter. All conference attendees must also be current members of the 
Literature/Film Association. 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 here <http://www.salisbury.edu/lfq>.

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