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Writer's Guidelines

Literature/Film Quarterly is seeking articles related to film and adaptation studies.  Subjects may include but are not limited to:

  • why, how, and to what effect particular texts are adapted, made new or remade through cinema
  • the wide-ranging intertextuality of literature and film and/or the reciprocal influences of film and literature
  • locating specific texts and film adaptations of them within their own cultural moment/s
  • the intersection, inter-illumination, and/or collision of different media (especially cinema as it relates to and uses various textual forms)
  • different cinematic adaptations of a single literary work
  • a director’s style of adaptation
  • the “cinematic” qualities of an author’s work/s
  • an author’s attitude toward film and/or film adaptations
  • teaching film and/or film adaptation
  • interviews with directors and/or screenwriters
  • reviews of books on film and/or issues of adaptation
  • responses to any articles and reviews published in Literature/Film Quarterly

Articles should ordinarily be limited to 5,000 words; reviews to 1,500.  The New MLA Style must be followed for documenting sources and listing them in Works Cited.  If possible, supply stills or frame enlargements of the films discussed.  Enclose two printed copies of the manuscript and an additional copy on CD (with manuscript saved as text file in one of these versions:  Microsoft Word 98, 2000, 2003, or 2007).  Please include all contact information on a cover sheet separate from the manuscript itself.  Send manuscripts to

 

The Editors

Literature/Film Quarterly

Salisbury University

1101 Camden Ave.

Salisbury, MD 21801-6860

[USA]

Submissions from outside America may be emailed as MS Word attachments to

litfilmquart [at] salisbury [dot] edu

Although care will be taken with manuscripts, disks, and photographs submitted, the editors will not be held responsible for the loss of such materials. 

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright of their articles to Literature/Film Quarterly at Salisbury University.  This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the articles, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate.  Articles published by this journal do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its editors and are not the legal responsibility of Literature/Film Quarterly.

For further queries about specific articles or reviews, please contact us at

litfilmquart [at] salisbury [dot] edu