“In the adaptation game, everything is up for grabs! Is that cause for celebration then?” —Jim Welsh, LFA Founder
11:30am: On site Registration Begins, Kansas Memorial Union , Mt. Oread, Lawrence, Kansas
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Noon—2pm (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Mixed Genre (Chair: Cynthia Miller, Emerson College, Boston) Giselle Liza Anatol (KU English), “Black Vampires on Film” ; Tanine Allison (University of Pittsburgh), “Dario Argento’s Bloody Investigations: Memory, Nation, and Cinematic Vision in Deep Red” ; Angela Marie Smith (University of Utah), “Horrible! Horrible! Physiogomy and Disability in Three Film Versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”; Katrina L. Bondari (KU), “Oh My God, They Killed Socrates! Teaching Aristophanes via South Park.”
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12:30—2:15pm (Kansas Room, Kansas Union) Mixed Adaptation (Chair: Brian Faucete, KU Theatre and Film): Gabe Shapiro (University of Minnesota), “Observing the Witness: Satyajit Ray’s Adaptation of Premchand’s Sadgati” ; Kavita Khurana (San Jose State), “Dharma: Individual and Personal Codes of Conduct Projected Symbolically by Principal Characters in Peter Brooks’s’ The Mahabharata”; Nirmal Kumar (Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi ), “One Book, Three Adaptations, Three Devdas: A Study of Changing Interpretation” ; Brian Faucete (KU Theatre and Film), “Dirty Hands and ‘A Clean Escape’: Crisis of Masculinity and Total War”
A-3
2:15—4pm (English Room, Kansas Union) Adaptation Issues (Chair: Suzanne Diamond): Suzanne Diamond (Youngstown State University), “Forgetting and Repeating History: Dreiser’s and Highsmith’s Protagonists in Adaptation” ; Dale T. Adams (Lee College, Baytown Texas), “Twice Convicted, Once Executed: A Literary Naturalist’s Interpretation of Richard Brooks’s Film In Cold Blood” ; Roxanne Schwab (St. Louis University), “A Foot in the Door: Dismembered Accountability in “The Door in the Floor” ; Nancy S. Shay (Richard Montgomery High School, Maryland), “To the Lighthouse: Using a Bad (TV) Movie to Teach a Good Book.”
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2:30—4:15pm (Kansas Room) Modernist Panel: “Rethinking Modernist Novels on Film” Moderator: Iris Smith Fischer, University of Kansas. Papers: Rebecca K. Conn, (KU English Dept), “Sex, Socialites and Holy Men in The Razor’s Edge” ; Sarah L. Young, (KU English), “Willa Cather and the Made-For-Television Movie”; Iris Smith Fischer, (KU English), “’No Place for a Woman’: The Emergence of China in The Painted Veil”
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2:30—4:15pm (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Drama and Film (Chair: Ron Wilson, KU): Robert E. Meyer (DePaul University), “The Intruder Redeems: Religious Imagery in The Night of the Iguana” ; Rachel Olsen (Kansas State University), “Streetcar Takes a Beating: Spousal Abuse in the Plays of Tennessee Williams”; Ted Nannicelli (Temple University), “”Adaptation on Trial: The Case of Krapp’s Last Tape”; Anna K. Nardo (LSU), “Stoppard’s Spacemen: Rosenkrantz and Guildernstern on Film”
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4:15—6:00pm (English Room, Kansas Union) Innovative Directors (Chair: Wm. Bartley, University of Saskatchewan): Bryan Cardinale-Powell (Georgia State U), “Mike Leigh and the Fickle Finger” ; William Bartley (University of Saskatchewan), “Mike Leigh’s Naked and the Idea of Home” ; Toni Morris (University of Indianapolis), “Atom Egoyan: Four Literary Adaptations”; Christofer Meissner (Independent Scholar, Minneapolis), “Characterizing the Citizens of Nashville: Robert Altman and the Use of Multiple Protagonists”
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4:30-5:45pm (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Mixed Genre: (Chair: Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Texas State University and Moderator for H-film): James A. Miller (Purdue University, Calumet), “Adapting Patrick McGrath: David Cronenburg’s Spider (2002) and the ‘Lost Child’ Trope” ; Greta Aiya Niu (University of Rochester), “Shanghai-Hong Kong-Hollywood Nostalgia and Flux: Eileen Chang, Joan Chen, Stanley Kwan, and Ang Lee in a Global Market”; Marisa Bell-Metereau (University of Texas), “Generalization of the Expatriate Experience in The Namesake (Novel and Film)”
5:45-7:00 pm (Pulse Coffee Bar, 4th floor of Kansas Union) Pre-wrapped sandwiches and salads, beverages, and cookies will be available for purchase with cash or a credit card.
Panel: The Day “The Cinema” Died:
7/30/07: “Elegiac Reflections to Mark the Passing of Antonioni, Bergman, Existentialism, Humanism and the Cinema: A Tribute to the Film Generation circa 1968 and to the KU Film Society” and its sponsor, Student Union Activities (Frank Manchel, Jim Welsh, John Tibbetts and Chuck Sack)
Another Tribute: Reinventing the Biopic, Reinventing Ken Russell : Neither Gone nor Forgotten Tom Prasch (Washburn University),“Behind the Last Veil: Forms of Transgression in Ken Russell’s Salome”; Kevin Flanagan (North Carolina State University), “A Filmmaker Between the Periphery and the Mainstream: Ken Russell since 1980,” Respondents: John Tibbetts (KU), and Jim Welsh (LFA) This is not “elegiac”: Clips will be shown from Russell’s career, past and present.
8am Registration Begins
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8—9:30am (English Room, Kansas Union) Film and Photography: Images and Star Images (Chair: Peter Lev, Towson University): “Reconstructing Bogie: Autobiography and the Star Image of Humphrey Bogart,” Kelli Marshall (TCU); “Pin-Up Girl (1944), from Still Photograph to Feature Film,” Peter A. Lev (Towson University), “Fairy Tales, Fetishism, and Freaks: Diana Arbus’s Artistic Awakening in Fur,” Tina Lent (Rochester Institute of Technology)
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8:30—10:15am (Centennial Room, Kansas Union) Europe and the New World (Chair: Courtney Sullivan, Foreign Languages, Washburn University): Jacqueline E. Bixler (Virginia Tech), “Making a Scene: Sabina Bergman’s Film Adaptations of Entre Villa y una mujer desnuda, Backyard, and History of Love” ; Jessica A. Folkart (Virginia Tech), “The Spatial Adaptation of Desire in Cinema and Fiction by Spain’s Manuel Rivas” ; Courtney Sullivan (Washburn University), “Being Madame Bovary: Flaubert, Feminism, and Faithlessness in Little Children”
B-3
9am—11:15am (Kansas Room, Kansas Union) American Literature: Birdies & Undies, Hats & Showers (Chair: Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara): Richard Schultz (Berkeley College), “Birds and Undergarments: Recurrent Images in the Film Adaptations of The Scarlet Letter”; Dawn Keetley (Lehigh University), “Hawthorne’s Influence on Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things”; Sarah Bishop (University of Virginia), “Exposing The Innocents: Henry James, William Archibald, and Truman Capote”; William H. Mooney (Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY), “Miller’s Crossing and Dashiell Hammett: Adaptation, Homage, Expropriation”; Dennis Perry (Brigham Young University), “Poe’s “Usher,” Bloch’s Psycho, and the Adaptation Triangle of Hitchcock’s Psycho.”
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9:45—11:45am (English Room, Kansas Union) European Adaptations (Chair: Heather Addison (Western Michigan University): Elaine Roth (Indiana University, South Bend), “Adaptation and Collaboration: Tom Tykwer as International Auteur” ; Heather Addison (Western Michigan University), “The Scent of a Woman: Perfume as Novel and Film” ; Carolyn A. Durham (The College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio), “Adaptation and Intertextuality in Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Un long dimanche de fiançailles” ; John Hodgkins (University of Rhode Island), “Not Fade Away: History and Trauma in Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s The Melancholy of Resistance and Bela Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies” ; Claire Kew (Salisbury University), “Jean Renoir’s “The Beast in Man”: Literary Adaptation or Cinematographic Subversion?” ;
B-5
10:30am—12:00am (Centennial Room, Kansas Union) Narrative Voices and Feminist Concerns (Chair: Catherine L. Preston, KU Theatre and Film): Debra Shostak (College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio), “Impossible Narrative Voices: Sofia Coppola’s Adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides” ; Catherine L. Preston (KU), “The Adaptation of theory to Practice and of Film to ‘Woman’” ; Pat Tyrer (West Texas A+M), “From Ethos Past Logos to Pathos: Hollywood and Third Wave Feminism.”
B-6
10:30—11:45am (Kansas Room, Kansas Union) Editor’s Panel: Improving Your Chances for Publication : What Editors Want (Chair: Jim Welsh, Founding Editor LFQ): Gerald Duchovnay, Founding Editor, Post Script; Cynthia Miller , Associate Editor Film+ History; David T. Johnson, Current Co-Editor, Literature/Film Quarterly; John Tibbetts, Former Editor, American Classic Screen and Adjunct Editor, Journal of Popular Film and Television; Richard Vela, Contributing Editor, LFQ.
B-7
11:30—Noon: Book Signings, Big 12 Room, Kansas Union (before lunch): Frank Manchel, Jennifer Jeffers, Tom Leitch, Laurence Raw, Walter Metz, Kevin Boon, Peter Lev, Jim Welsh, John Tibbetts, et al.
B-9
1:30—3:45pm (Alderson Auditorium) “Impossible” Issues of Adaptation (Chair: Tom Leitch, English, University of Delaware): Jennifer M. Jeffers (Cleveland State University), “The Paradoxical Impossibility of Adaptation”; Thomas M. Leitch, (University of Delaware), “Filming Poetry”; Rebecca Bell-Metereau. (English and Media Studies, Texas State University), “The Strange Love of Lolita, or How Censors Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Adaptations” ; Katrina Boyd (University of Oklahoma), “Eyre Apparent: Approaches to Female Subjectivity in BBC Miniseries”; Kevin A. Boon (Penn State U), “Parallels between the Screenplay and Modern Literature Aesthetics”
B-10
2:30—3:45pm (English Room, Kansas Union) Gender Issues (Chair: Rodney Hill): William Van Watson (University of Arizona), “As You Desire Garbo: The Hollywood Studio System’s Pirandello Film” ; Rodney Hill (Georgia Gwinnett College),”Queering the New Wave Deal: Gender Politics in Jacques Demy’s A Slightly Pregnant Man”
3:45pm Meet at Registration Table for guided walk to the Hall Center for the Humanities, where food will be served with appropriate beverages.
5:30—6:30 (English Room, Kansas Union) LFA Business Meeting (Chair: Richard Vela, UNC Pembroke): Next year’s conference and (we anticipate) a report from Turkey.
8am Registration Begins
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8-10:30am (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) The Limits (?) of Adaptation (Chair: David T. Johnson, LFQ and Salisbury U.): Anne Slatton (UNC Asheville) and Margaret F. Savilonis (University of New Haven), “Starring Barbie®”; Dennis Rothermel (California State, Chico), “Lars von Triers’s Invented Theatricality”; David Johnson (Salisbury University, LFQ), “Dogtown and Z-Boys: Documentaries and Adaptation Studies” ; William Christopher Brown (Indiana University, Bloomington), “‘The Merchants Are the Serfs’: Adapting Arthuriana in George A. Romero’s Knightriders”; William L. Harper (KU Theatre and Film), “Video Game Adaptations and Franchises: Lara Croft and Resident Evil.”
C-2
8:30—9:45am (English Room, Kansas Union) Shakespeare and Film (Chair: Richard Vela, UNC Pembroke): Kanishka Sen (Ohio Northern University), “Omkara: Bollywood Style Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello,”; Frederick A. Holliday (Carrol Community College), “Enter Ghosts: Staging and Style in Six Screen Hamlets”; Erica Hateley (Kansas State University), “The Play’s the Thing?: Hamlets ‘Slings and Arrows’ and the Authority of Theatrical Consumption”
C-3
9-10:30am (Centennial Room, Kansas Union) Genre I: War Films (Chair: Laurence Raw, Baskent University, Ankara): “‘Custer Was a Pussy’: We Were Soldiers and the Constraints of Genre,” Cornelius A. Cronin (LSU, English); “War Stories Collide in Jarhead,” Zivah Perel; “Joseph Conrad in the Wild West: The Duellists,” Laurence Raw (Baskent University, Ankara)
C-4
10:00—12:00am (English Room, Kansas Union) Minorities, Adaptation, and Cinema (Chair: Tom Prasch, Washburn University): Paul D. Reich (Rollins College), “Daring to Be Human: Transformation and Promotion in Oscar Micheaux’s The Homesteader”; Deborah R. Geis (DePauw U), “Becoming Janie: Suzan-Lori Parks’s Adaptation of Their Eyes Were Watching God”; Zachary Ingle (No.Carolina A+T State University), “’White Fear’ and the Studio System: A Re-evaluation of Hansberry’s Original Screenplay of A Raisin in the Sun; Charity Fox (George Washington University), “Manipulations and Limitations of (White) Guilt in Ernest Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying”
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10:45am—12:00am (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Shakespeare and Film II (Chair: Richard Vela, UNC Pembroke): Allison K. Thibert-Bragg (University of Delaware), “Faithful vs. Unfaithful: The Academic Policing of Shakespeare Film Adaptation” ; Richard Vela (UNC Pembroke), “Shakespeare into Genre: A Reconsideration” ; Gregg Redner (Exeter University, UK), “Shakespeare, Shostakovich, and the Deluzian Notion of the Return.”
C-6
10:45—12:00am (Centennial Room, Kansas Union) The “Literary,” the Cinematic and the Operatic (Chair: John C. Tibbetts, KU): Bernhard Kuhn (Bucknell University), “Opera in Early Silent Italian Cinema: Intermediality and Remediation” ; Matthew Leporati (Fordham University), “The Cinematic Trick Shot and Spectatorship in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake” ; Justin Harlacher (York College of Pennsylvania), “A Digital Shot of Analog Proportions; Richard Linklater’s Tape (2001)”
C-7 Buffet Luncheon (Prepaid by your Registration Fee.)
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
Plenary Address: Andrew L. Erdman, “Vaudeville & Film”
Andrew Erdman is the New York-based author of Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915 and of the forthcoming book The Queen of Vaudeville: Eva Tanguay and the Rise of Modern Female Celebrity.
C-8 1:30—2:45pm (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Genre II: Science Fiction/Fantasy (Chair: Cynthia Miller, Emerson College): Andrew M. Gordon (University of Florida), “The War of the Worlds: H.G. Wells Meets Steven Spielberg” ; John Carter Tibbetts (University of Kansas), “’Pictures That Fly Through the Air’: Adapting Ray Bradbury’s ‘Icarus Montgolfier Wright,’” ; John Byron (Executive Director, The Australian Academy of the Humanities), “Untimely Meditations on the First Philosophy: Radical Skepticism at the Movies”
C-9 3pm—4:15pm (Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union):
LFA Panel: The Enduring (if not Endearing) Persistence of Fidelity, and Its Naysayers
Moderator: David Kranz (Dickinson College). Panelists to include Tom Leitch (University of Delaware), Jennifer M. Jeffers (Cleveland State University), LFA Founder Jim Welsh, Peter Lev (Towson), David Johnson (Salisbury U and LFQ), Richard Vela (UNC Pembroke). Also invited: Kevin Boon (Penn State), Laurence Raw (Baskent University), and Walter Metz (Montana State), all of whom have recently published books involving adaptation, but this is imagined as an open conversation. This discussion began at Dickinson College over what Tom Leitch called “The Persistence of Fidelity,” was continued at Towson, and overlapped into the pages of The Literature/Film Reader (Scarecrow Press, 2007). Jim carried his retromingent opinions to Baskent University in Ankara (March 2006, where he was countered by Laurence Raw), then to the Utah Shakespeare Festival Symposium (August 2006, with David Kranz, John Tibbetts, and Peter Lev), and to the SouthWest/Texas PCA in Albuquerque (February 2007, with Richard Vela), before debating them with Tom Leitch (specifically on Shakespeare at that time) in Memorial Hall at the University of Delaware (8 March 2007). Moving beyond Shakespeare, the conversation resumed in Boston with Dennis Cutchins, Laurence Raw, and others, and now we would be pleased to carry on in Lawrence, as amusingly as possible. We promise to be civilized. Open Mike requested for this panel for audience participation.
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4:30-6:30pm (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Theatre and Film (Chair: Walter Metz, Montana State University): Constance B. Kuriyama (Texas Tech University), “Commedia and Silent Film Comedy: Some Fundamental Distinctions” ; Leslie O’Dell (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario), “Soliloquy, Verfremsdungseffect, and Playing to the Camera: The Migration of Direct Address from Theatre to Film” ; Marton Marko (University of Montana), “Adaptation Effects: Brecht and the New German Cinema of the 1970s” ; Maia A. Kipp (KU Theatre, emerita), “Continuous Dialogue from Russian Drama to Western Film”; Walter Metz (Montana State University), “Comical Flooding: Steve Corell and the Medieval Noah.”
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5-6:15pm (Centennial Room, Kansas Union) Issues in Adaptation and Biography (Chair: John C. Tibbetts, KU): Larson Powell (UMKC), “Painting Into Film: Konrad Wolf’s Goya” ; André Siamundele (Wells College, NY), “Lumumba: History, Theatre, and Film” ; Mechele Leon (KU Theatre and Film), “The Screen Sagas of Molière”
6:15-7:30 pm (Pulse Coffee Bar, 4th floor of Kansas Union) Pre-wrapped sandwiches and salads, beverages, and cookies will be available for purchase with cash or a credit card.
A 35mm screening of the 1953 20th Century-Fox biopic, The “I Don’t Care” Girl, directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Mitzi Gaynor as vaudeville performer Eva Tanguay. To be introduced by Andrew Erdman, author of Blue Vaudeville: Sex, Morals, and the Mass-Marketing of Amusement, 1895-1915 and of the forthcoming book The Queen of Vaudeville: Eva Tanguay and the Rise of Modern Female Celebrity. George Jessel wrote of Eva Tanguay (1878-1947) in his notes to the screenplay: “She reigned as the queen of vaudeville in a period from 1905 to 1920 . . . . There was only one Eva Tanguay.” (35mm Print materials courtesy of Universal Pictures.)
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8:30—9:45am (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) Political Cinema (Chair: Tom Prasch (Washburn University): J. L. Rezac (Washburn University), “Echoing Complaint: Corporations in Blood Diamond and The Constant Gardner” ; Dustin Gann (KU), “Connecting the Dots: Iconic Film and American Men during the Late 1960s”; Robert Niemi (St. Michael’s College) “The Remake as Cultural Zeitgeist Barometer: Cape Fear (1962 and 1991).”
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9am—11:15am (English Room, Kansas Union) Adaptation and Genre (Chair: William M. Hagen, Oklahoma Baptist University ): Peter Catapano (New York City College of Technology), “Film History and Historicity in The Day of the Locust,” ; Wm. M. Hagen (Oklahoma Baptist U), “From West to (Anti-) Western” ; David Carren (University of Texas, Pan American), “Big Ideas in a Small world: The Limited Environment of the Stage, Serving Substantial Themes in Cinema” ; Carl Grindley (CUNY), “Shakespeare’s Peasants on Film.”
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10am—Noon (Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union) American Gangster Panel (Chair: Joseph Michael Sommers, KU English): Richard Kerry Noggle (KU English), “Nothin’ More Foolish Than a Man Chasing His Hat: The Coen Bros. Gangsters”; Joseph Candelaria (KU English); “Guys Play with Action Figures, not Dolls: Damon Runyan’s Dark Humor and Grizzley Underpinnings,” (Joseph Michael Sommers), “Infernal Translations: Examining the Irish Gangster in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed.”
Noon: End of Conference.
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