[Commlist] Literature/Film Association Conference, "Work & Play"

WORK & PLAY


2022 Literature/Film Association Conference

New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

October 20 to October 22, 2022

Keynote: Vicki Mayer, Tulane University

We are excited to return to in-person conferencing this fall with an 
examination of work and play, broadly conceived. 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:


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    the work behind adapting into a different medium

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    labor and cultural production

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    authorship and adaptation

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    the workplace as cultural intersection/metaphor in literature, film,
    and media

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    production studies and below-the-line labor

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    play in cultural production

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    teaching adaptation and adapting teaching

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    labor, social change, and adaptation

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    adaptation as textual play

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    gameplay as adaptation

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    games as adaptations or adapting games

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    play in analyzing and interpreting text

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    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.


Please submit your proposal via this Google Form 
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July 1, 2022. You will receive a confirmation email within 48 hours. 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 August 1, and the conference 
program will be available by August 15 to enable travel planning. We 
also anticipate a professionalization pre-conference event.


The conference hotel rate of $199/night is available at the Four Points 
Sheraton French Quarter. The conference registration fee is $200 ($150 
for students and retirees) before October 1, 2022 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, select your registration and click on the PayPal “Buy Now” 
button below that will take you to where you can sign in to your PayPal 
account and complete the transaction.


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