Literature/Film Association Annual Conference
October 13-15, 2016
Rowan University
Glassboro, NJ
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Thursday, October 13 –
3:30
pm – 6:00 pm
Bozorth 112 Auditorium
Bozorth 112 Auditorium
Keynote Speaker:
Nate Chinen, New York Times/JazzTimes
Nate Chinen is a music critic for The New York Times and a columnist for JazzTimes. His work appears in Best Music Writing 2011 and in the recent anthologies Miles Davis: The Complete Illustrated History and Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt. He has received multiple honors from the Jazz Journalists Association, including the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Review and Feature Writing, and Best Book About Jazz, for Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, which he wrote with impresario George Wein. He is an alum of the University of Pennsylvania in English - Creative Writing - Poetry, Penn's Kelly Writers House, and CounterParts.
Nate Chinen is a music critic for The New York Times and a columnist for JazzTimes. His work appears in Best Music Writing 2011 and in the recent anthologies Miles Davis: The Complete Illustrated History and Pop When the World Falls Apart: Music in the Shadow of Doubt. He has received multiple honors from the Jazz Journalists Association, including the Helen Dance-Robert Palmer Award for Review and Feature Writing, and Best Book About Jazz, for Myself Among Others: A Life in Music, which he wrote with impresario George Wein. He is an alum of the University of Pennsylvania in English - Creative Writing - Poetry, Penn's Kelly Writers House, and CounterParts.
Screening: Jazz on a Summer’s Day (1960)
Moderator, Joseph Bierman, Rowan University
Moderator, Joseph Bierman, Rowan University
Thursday, October 13 –
6:30
pm
Student Center Ballroom
Student Center Ballroom
Opening
Reception
Keynote Speaker:
Thomas Doherty, Brandeis University
Thomas Doherty is Professor and Chair of American Studies at Brandeis University, an Academy Film Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, associate editor for Cineaste, film review editor for the Journal of American History, and cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema. His books include Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939; Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration; Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; and Teenagers & Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950's.
Thomas Doherty is Professor and Chair of American Studies at Brandeis University, an Academy Film Scholar, Fulbright Scholar, associate editor for Cineaste, film review editor for the Journal of American History, and cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema. His books include Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939; Hollywood's Censor: Joseph I. Breen and the Production Code Administration; Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture; Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930-1934; Projections of War: Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II; and Teenagers & Teenpics: The Juvenilization of American Movies in the 1950's.
Friday, October 14 –
9:00
am - 10:45 am – Bozorth Hall
Panel 1A: Adapting Images of WWII and the
Holocaust
Chair, Walter Metz
Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University
"This Way for the Cinema, Ladies and Gentlemen"
Chair, Walter Metz
Walter Metz, Southern Illinois University
"This Way for the Cinema, Ladies and Gentlemen"
Claire Soares, University
of Texas at Dallas
“The netherworld created for the film Defiance (2008)”
Mia Martini, University of Oklahoma
“Flags and Letters: Counter-narratives in World War II Film”
David Young, Duquesne University
“‘I can work with this’: Media Consumption, Ideology, and the Return of Hitler in Look Who’s Back”
“The netherworld created for the film Defiance (2008)”
Mia Martini, University of Oklahoma
“Flags and Letters: Counter-narratives in World War II Film”
David Young, Duquesne University
“‘I can work with this’: Media Consumption, Ideology, and the Return of Hitler in Look Who’s Back”
Panel 1B: Adapting
Alternate Worlds, Long Form TV/Video, Cinematic Binge-watching
Chair, Courtney Polidori and William Bartley
Courtney Polidori, Rowan University
“‘I Cried After Each Episode’: Perspectives on Orange is the New Black from Currently Incarcerated Women”
Teresa Fleming, Grinnell College
“‘Why can’t you see me’: Exposing the Cinematic Apparatus in Lemonade and Daughters of the Dust”
William Bartley, University of Saskatchewan
“What is Long Form Television? An Answer to Jason Mittell’s Complex TV”
Jennifer Leah Peck, Rowan College at Burlington County, RCGC, University of the Arts
“Why We Can’t Be Happy for Olivia Benson (or I had a One Night Stand with House): How modern television, including binge watching, is destroying the shared experience”
Chair, Courtney Polidori and William Bartley
Courtney Polidori, Rowan University
“‘I Cried After Each Episode’: Perspectives on Orange is the New Black from Currently Incarcerated Women”
Teresa Fleming, Grinnell College
“‘Why can’t you see me’: Exposing the Cinematic Apparatus in Lemonade and Daughters of the Dust”
William Bartley, University of Saskatchewan
“What is Long Form Television? An Answer to Jason Mittell’s Complex TV”
Jennifer Leah Peck, Rowan College at Burlington County, RCGC, University of the Arts
“Why We Can’t Be Happy for Olivia Benson (or I had a One Night Stand with House): How modern television, including binge watching, is destroying the shared experience”
Friday, October 14 – 11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Panel 2A: Adapting Music, Jazz, Cinema
Chair, Peter Lev
Peter C. Kunze, University of Texas at Austin
“Belles are Singing: David O. Selznick's Failed Musicalization of Gone With the Wind”
David R. Adler, Queens College, CUNY
“Jazz Video: A New Golden Age?”
Paula Musegades, Brandeis University
“Challenging Neutrality: Aaron Copland’s Film Score for Of Mice and Men (1939)”
Chair, Peter Lev
Peter C. Kunze, University of Texas at Austin
“Belles are Singing: David O. Selznick's Failed Musicalization of Gone With the Wind”
David R. Adler, Queens College, CUNY
“Jazz Video: A New Golden Age?”
Paula Musegades, Brandeis University
“Challenging Neutrality: Aaron Copland’s Film Score for Of Mice and Men (1939)”
Panel 2B: Adapting Magic, Fantasy and Science Fiction
as Alternate World
Chair, Noel Sloboda
Noel Sloboda, Penn State University, York
“Degrees of Fantasy: Institutionalized Magic in The Magicians on Page and Screen”
John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University
“Magic World, Muggle World: The Double Adaptation of the Harry Potter Series”
Michael Saffle, Virginia Tech
“Alternate Worlds, Adapted Tales, Real Music: The Beatles and Science Fiction”
Andrew M. Hakim, Princeton University
“Magic, Misdirection, and Representations of America in Christopher Nolan’s Adaptation of The Prestige”
Chair, Noel Sloboda
Noel Sloboda, Penn State University, York
“Degrees of Fantasy: Institutionalized Magic in The Magicians on Page and Screen”
John Alberti, Northern Kentucky University
“Magic World, Muggle World: The Double Adaptation of the Harry Potter Series”
Michael Saffle, Virginia Tech
“Alternate Worlds, Adapted Tales, Real Music: The Beatles and Science Fiction”
Andrew M. Hakim, Princeton University
“Magic, Misdirection, and Representations of America in Christopher Nolan’s Adaptation of The Prestige”
Friday, October 14 –
1:00
pm - 2:45 pm
Panel 3A: Adapting Hollywood Cinema: From
Wartime To Postwar
Chair, Sheri Chinen Biesen
Peter Lev, Towson University
“Sources for Casablanca”
Sheri Chinen Biesen, Rowan University
“Adapting Women in Jazz Film Noir: From Virginia Van Upp To Joan Harrison”
Julie Grossman, Le Moyne College
“‘Something Different out of Hollywood’: Ida Lupino and The Filmakers”
Ann T. Torrusio, University of Missouri - St. Louis
“Hitching a Ride through an Alternate World: The Fictionalization of Billy Cook in Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker”
Chair, Sheri Chinen Biesen
Peter Lev, Towson University
“Sources for Casablanca”
Sheri Chinen Biesen, Rowan University
“Adapting Women in Jazz Film Noir: From Virginia Van Upp To Joan Harrison”
Julie Grossman, Le Moyne College
“‘Something Different out of Hollywood’: Ida Lupino and The Filmakers”
Ann T. Torrusio, University of Missouri - St. Louis
“Hitching a Ride through an Alternate World: The Fictionalization of Billy Cook in Ida Lupino’s The Hitch-Hiker”
Panel 3B: Adapting Queer
Cinema/TV
Chair, Andrew Scahill
Victoria L. Smith, Texas State University
“The Heterotopias of Todd Haynes: Creating a Space for Same Sex Desire in Carol”
Joshua Bastian Cole, Cornell University
“‘Here We Go’: In a Queer Time and Place with Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin”
Mark DeStephano, Saint Peter's University
"Queer Space: 'Star Appeal,' 'New China,' and the Construction of a Cosmic Asian Queerness"
Seung-A Lee, Bowling Green State University
“Where Hath Thy Queer Father Begone?”
Chair, Andrew Scahill
Victoria L. Smith, Texas State University
“The Heterotopias of Todd Haynes: Creating a Space for Same Sex Desire in Carol”
Joshua Bastian Cole, Cornell University
“‘Here We Go’: In a Queer Time and Place with Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin”
Mark DeStephano, Saint Peter's University
"Queer Space: 'Star Appeal,' 'New China,' and the Construction of a Cosmic Asian Queerness"
Seung-A Lee, Bowling Green State University
“Where Hath Thy Queer Father Begone?”
Friday, October 14 –
3:00
pm - 4:45 pm
Panel 4A: Adapting Music, Melodrama,
Cinema
Chair, John Alberti
Maxfield Fulton, Yale University
“Affective Adaptation: Music, Gender, and Irony in The Heiress”
Carol M. Dole, Ursinus College
“Bette Davis, Edith Wharton, and Maternal Melodrama”
William Mooney, Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
“Sirk According to Fassbinder: Film to Film Adaptation of the Classics”
Melissa Elliot, Michigan State University
“Legendary (Other-Worldly) Music: The Role of Music in Heiner Carow’s Die Legende von Paul und Paula”
Chair, John Alberti
Maxfield Fulton, Yale University
“Affective Adaptation: Music, Gender, and Irony in The Heiress”
Carol M. Dole, Ursinus College
“Bette Davis, Edith Wharton, and Maternal Melodrama”
William Mooney, Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
“Sirk According to Fassbinder: Film to Film Adaptation of the Classics”
Melissa Elliot, Michigan State University
“Legendary (Other-Worldly) Music: The Role of Music in Heiner Carow’s Die Legende von Paul und Paula”
Panel 4B: Adapting Hitchcock/ Kubrick
Chair, Elizabeth Welch
Elizabeth Welch, Brookdale Community College
“Prim and Proper to Sharp and Shameless: Norma Bates' Transformation from Psycho's Fragmented Depiction to Bates Motel's Complex Persona”
Andrew Scahill, Salisbury University
“Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal”
Christina Parker-Flynn, Florida State University
“Chickening Out: Fear and Poultry in Hitchcock”
Jeff Rowell, Independent Scholar
“Looking Closer at Stanley Kubrick's Adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining”
Chair, Elizabeth Welch
Elizabeth Welch, Brookdale Community College
“Prim and Proper to Sharp and Shameless: Norma Bates' Transformation from Psycho's Fragmented Depiction to Bates Motel's Complex Persona”
Andrew Scahill, Salisbury University
“Serialized Killers: Prebooting Horror in Bates Motel and Hannibal”
Christina Parker-Flynn, Florida State University
“Chickening Out: Fear and Poultry in Hitchcock”
Jeff Rowell, Independent Scholar
“Looking Closer at Stanley Kubrick's Adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining”
Friday, October 14 –
5:00
pm - 6:45 pm
Panel 5A: Adapting History, Places and
Literary Spaces as Alternate Worlds
Chair, Jayson Baker
Brigitte E. Humbert, Middlebury College
“Paris on Film: Alternate Visions of the City of Love”
Chair, Jayson Baker
Brigitte E. Humbert, Middlebury College
“Paris on Film: Alternate Visions of the City of Love”
Jayson Baker, Curry
College
“Recent Antebellum Cinema: Alternate Worlds of the Global Present”
“Recent Antebellum Cinema: Alternate Worlds of the Global Present”
Naghmeh Rezaie, University
of Delaware
“Between National and International Identity of Iranian Cinema: Taqvai’s Cross-cultural Adaptation of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not”
Joseph Bierman, Rowan University
Respondent
“Between National and International Identity of Iranian Cinema: Taqvai’s Cross-cultural Adaptation of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not”
Joseph Bierman, Rowan University
Respondent
Panel 5B: Adapting Literature, Film, TV
Chair, Kate Newell
Chloe Smith, Stony Brook University
“A Delicate Balance of Power: Towards a Reconciliation of Authorial Intent and Creative Cinematic License in the Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Works”
Jennifer van Alstyne, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
“‘The Good Wife’ Then and Now: Feminism and Gender Roles from the Medieval Page to Contemporary Television Screen”
Candace E. C. O’Brien, University of Alabama
“Alternate World: Paralleling Patriarchal Sexual Violence in Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin”
Chair, Kate Newell
Chloe Smith, Stony Brook University
“A Delicate Balance of Power: Towards a Reconciliation of Authorial Intent and Creative Cinematic License in the Adaptation of Jane Austen’s Works”
Jennifer van Alstyne, University of Louisiana – Lafayette
“‘The Good Wife’ Then and Now: Feminism and Gender Roles from the Medieval Page to Contemporary Television Screen”
Candace E. C. O’Brien, University of Alabama
“Alternate World: Paralleling Patriarchal Sexual Violence in Jonathan Glazer’s Under The Skin”
Kate Newell, Savannah
College of Art and Design
“Pop-up Adaptation”
“Pop-up Adaptation”
Saturday, October 15 –
9:00
am - 10:45 am
Panel 6A: Adapting from Page to Screen
Chair, Jack Ryan
Matthew Pincus, University of Louisiana- Lafayette
“David Reading David: Lynch as Auteur of Sincerity”
Mackenzie Leadston, Ohio State University
“Lettres d’une autrichienne: Rethinking Infidelity and Adaptation in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette (2006)”
Chair, Jack Ryan
Matthew Pincus, University of Louisiana- Lafayette
“David Reading David: Lynch as Auteur of Sincerity”
Mackenzie Leadston, Ohio State University
“Lettres d’une autrichienne: Rethinking Infidelity and Adaptation in Sofia Coppola’s Marie-Antoinette (2006)”
Dennis Rothermel, Calilfornia State
University, Chico
“Aki Kaurismäki’s Outrageously Improvisatory Adaptations of Four Familiar Literary Source Texts”
“Aki Kaurismäki’s Outrageously Improvisatory Adaptations of Four Familiar Literary Source Texts”
Jack Ryan, Gettysburg
College
“The Warner Brothers Wine Cellar: Jim Harrison’s Adaptation Rewards”
“The Warner Brothers Wine Cellar: Jim Harrison’s Adaptation Rewards”
Panel 6B: Adapting TV/Comics/New Media
Chair, Nicholas-Brie Guarriello
Tania Darlington, Northwestern State University
“Veronica in Zombie Land: Remixing iZombie in the Rob Thomasverse”
Elise Lockwood, Ball State University
“Peter Pan Has a Blog and Jane Eyre Has a Twitter: A Grounded Theory Approach to Transmedia Adaptations of Literature”
Tomas Elliott, University of Pennsylvania
“‘A world ransomed, or one destroyed’: Shakespeare’s possible worlds and the romance of video games”
Chair, Nicholas-Brie Guarriello
Tania Darlington, Northwestern State University
“Veronica in Zombie Land: Remixing iZombie in the Rob Thomasverse”
Elise Lockwood, Ball State University
“Peter Pan Has a Blog and Jane Eyre Has a Twitter: A Grounded Theory Approach to Transmedia Adaptations of Literature”
Tomas Elliott, University of Pennsylvania
“‘A world ransomed, or one destroyed’: Shakespeare’s possible worlds and the romance of video games”
Nicholas-Brie
Guarriello, University of Minnesota
“Coliver: Fan Fiction, Alternate Universes, & Homonormative Storytelling in Shonda Rhimes’s How to Get Away with Murder”
“Coliver: Fan Fiction, Alternate Universes, & Homonormative Storytelling in Shonda Rhimes’s How to Get Away with Murder”
Panel 6C: Adapting Myth, Modernity and
Morality
Chair, Marton Marko
Lauren Rocha, University of New Hampshire
“The Hag and the Seductress: Depictions of Grendel’s Mother in Contemporary Interpretations of Beowulf”
Chair, Marton Marko
Lauren Rocha, University of New Hampshire
“The Hag and the Seductress: Depictions of Grendel’s Mother in Contemporary Interpretations of Beowulf”
John VanOverbeke,
University of St. Thomas
“Leone's American Myth”
Sinan Akilli, Hacettepe University
“Three Shades of Humanimality on Screen: The Case of Equine Mortality in the Film Adaptations of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
“Leone's American Myth”
Sinan Akilli, Hacettepe University
“Three Shades of Humanimality on Screen: The Case of Equine Mortality in the Film Adaptations of Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Marton Marko, University
of Montana
“Between Myth and Modernity: Cinematic Temptations in F. W. Murnau’s Faust”
“Between Myth and Modernity: Cinematic Temptations in F. W. Murnau’s Faust”
Saturday,
October 15 – 11:00 am - 12:45 pm
Panel 7A: BBC Adaptations
Chair, John Murray
Laura Birkin, Millersville University
“Queering the Victorian in Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet”
Meghan Parker, McMurry University
“Victorian Doctors and Gothic Horrors: which is the greater monster?”
Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
“Men Suck, or How John Logan Re-Writes the Traditional Gothic Tale to Feed Women”
Chair, John Murray
Laura Birkin, Millersville University
“Queering the Victorian in Sarah Waters' Tipping the Velvet”
Meghan Parker, McMurry University
“Victorian Doctors and Gothic Horrors: which is the greater monster?”
Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
“Men Suck, or How John Logan Re-Writes the Traditional Gothic Tale to Feed Women”
John Murray, Curry
College
“Adaptation and Rhizomatic Growth in the Neo-Victorian Sherlock”
“Adaptation and Rhizomatic Growth in the Neo-Victorian Sherlock”
Panel 7B: Adapting Spanish and Latin
American Images
Chair, Claudia Schaefer
Amanda McMenamin, Wilson College
“Almodóvar’s Harbingers of Spanish Hybridity: Genre-Crossing Adaptations and Intertexts in Bad Education (2004), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)”
Laura Hatry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
“Ideology and Religion in Strawberries and Chocolate”
Chair, Claudia Schaefer
Amanda McMenamin, Wilson College
“Almodóvar’s Harbingers of Spanish Hybridity: Genre-Crossing Adaptations and Intertexts in Bad Education (2004), Volver (2006), and The Skin I Live In (2011)”
Laura Hatry, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
“Ideology and Religion in Strawberries and Chocolate”
Claudia
Schaefer, University of Rochester
“Debunking Chronology with Schrödinger’s Cat: What Exactly Are the Crimes of Timecrimes?”
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, University of Rochester
“To Drink or Not to Drink? Pactia as the Opiate of the Masses in 2033: Future Apocalypse”
“Debunking Chronology with Schrödinger’s Cat: What Exactly Are the Crimes of Timecrimes?”
Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández, University of Rochester
“To Drink or Not to Drink? Pactia as the Opiate of the Masses in 2033: Future Apocalypse”
Panel
7C: Adapting the Classics
Chair, Dean R. Cooledge
Chair, Dean R. Cooledge
Dean R. Cooledge, University
of Maryland Eastern Shore
“Third Time’s a Charm: Allen’s perpetual engagement with Crime and Punishment”
“Third Time’s a Charm: Allen’s perpetual engagement with Crime and Punishment”
Steve Benton,
East Central University
“To Be or Not To Be Digitized for a Global Audience: Hamlet, NT Live, and the Allure of Hollywood”
“To Be or Not To Be Digitized for a Global Audience: Hamlet, NT Live, and the Allure of Hollywood”
Hee-seong Lim, Iowa State
University
“The Gothic Wilderness as the Alternate Worlds in Irving's Story and Burton’s Film”
“The Gothic Wilderness as the Alternate Worlds in Irving's Story and Burton’s Film”
Saturday, October 15 –
1:00
pm - 2:45 pm
Panel
8A: Adapting (to) New Technologies
Chair, Charles Hamilton
Chair, Charles Hamilton
Nathaniel Henry Epstein, The
New School
“Robocop: Waiting for the Cyborg Messiah”
“Robocop: Waiting for the Cyborg Messiah”
Charles Hamilton, Texas
A&M University-Central Texas
“Adaptation of Public Perception: The Acceptance of Technological Confusion and the Intertextuality of Fear in a Conspiracy Culture”
“Adaptation of Public Perception: The Acceptance of Technological Confusion and the Intertextuality of Fear in a Conspiracy Culture”
Sadie Crow, Duquesne
University
“Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Emotion?: Exploring Gendered Artificial Intelligences in Her and Ex Machina”
“Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Emotion?: Exploring Gendered Artificial Intelligences in Her and Ex Machina”
Chris Gazzara, Rowan
College at Burlington County
“Tweet First, View Second: Assessing the Processing of the Rhetorically Intensive Viewer”
“Tweet First, View Second: Assessing the Processing of the Rhetorically Intensive Viewer”
Panel 8B: Adapting Gender
Chair, Charity Fox
Chair, Charity Fox
Trinidad Linares, Bowling
Green State University
“Body, Space, and Gaze in Outlander”
“Body, Space, and Gaze in Outlander”
Joseph Giunta, New
York University
“I'm Not Meant to Play This Part”
“I'm Not Meant to Play This Part”
Charity Fox, Penn
State University, Harrisburg
“American Romance, Exotic Lands: Lessons on Gender and Family in Soldier of Fortune (1954, 1955)”
“American Romance, Exotic Lands: Lessons on Gender and Family in Soldier of Fortune (1954, 1955)”
Robyn
Rowley, Carnegie Mellon University
“Rethinking True Love’s Kiss: Female Embodiment, Power, and Rehabilitation in Stromberg’s Maleficent”
“Rethinking True Love’s Kiss: Female Embodiment, Power, and Rehabilitation in Stromberg’s Maleficent”
Panel
8C: Adapting Genre
Chair, Kristopher Mecholsky
Chair, Kristopher Mecholsky
Rebecca Hammonds, Bowling
Green State University
“Digitally Mediated ‘Live’ Theatre Events”
“Digitally Mediated ‘Live’ Theatre Events”
Eric Hahn, New York
University
“What Follows? Socioeconomic Durée and the Contemporary Horror Film”
“What Follows? Socioeconomic Durée and the Contemporary Horror Film”
Kristopher Mecholsky, Louisiana
State University
“The Alternate Television Worlds of Patricia Highsmith”
“The Alternate Television Worlds of Patricia Highsmith”
Saturday, October 15 –
3:00
pm - 4:45 pm
Panel 9A: Adapting New Hollywood: Reboots
& Franchises
Chair, Thomas Leitch
Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware
“Origin Stories: Franchises, Reboots, and Adaptations”
Rochelle Plummer, Wilson College
The Characters Within Us
Erica McCrystal, St. John's University
“Gotham City and the Evolution of Gothicized America”
Catrina Hoppes, Harvard University
“Mad Max: Fury Road: A Narrative Apocalypse”
Chair, Thomas Leitch
Thomas Leitch, University of Delaware
“Origin Stories: Franchises, Reboots, and Adaptations”
Rochelle Plummer, Wilson College
The Characters Within Us
Erica McCrystal, St. John's University
“Gotham City and the Evolution of Gothicized America”
Catrina Hoppes, Harvard University
“Mad Max: Fury Road: A Narrative Apocalypse”
Panel
9B: Adapting Politics
Chair, Fareed Ben-Youssef
Chair, Fareed Ben-Youssef
Fareed Ben-Youssef, University
of California, Berkeley
“Challenging the Rules of America’s Wartime Game: Alba Sotorra's ‘Game Over’”
Shoshana Milgram Knapp, Virginia
Tech“Challenging the Rules of America’s Wartime Game: Alba Sotorra's ‘Game Over’”
“Adapting the Alternate Futures of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged: Three Funerals and a Renaissance”
Tatiana Prorokova, Philipps
University of Marburg, Germany
“Detecting U.S. Humanitarian Intervention in David O. Russell’s Three Kings”
“Detecting U.S. Humanitarian Intervention in David O. Russell’s Three Kings”
William Patrick Wend, Rowan
College At Burlington County
“Peasants and Barbarians: How Valkyria Chronicles Uses The Tropes Of War To Reexamine The Past And Present”
“Peasants and Barbarians: How Valkyria Chronicles Uses The Tropes Of War To Reexamine The Past And Present”
Panel
9C: Adapting Stories to Social Norms, and Vice Versa
Chair, Jess Wilton
Chair, Jess Wilton
Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, CUNY/Queensborough
Community College
“New Jim Crow Minstrelsy in 21st Century Performance: Black Masculinity in Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell’s Get Hard”
“New Jim Crow Minstrelsy in 21st Century Performance: Black Masculinity in Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell’s Get Hard”
Bruce Plourde, Rowan
University
“‘Trust the Test’: Education as Antagonist in Film”
“‘Trust the Test’: Education as Antagonist in Film”
Jess Wilton, Carnegie
Mellon University
“‘Airworld,’ Playground and Nightmare of the Twenty-First Century Worker”
Dany Jacob, State University of New York at Buffalo
“‘But there is no real me’: the film adaptation of the literary dandy”
“‘Airworld,’ Playground and Nightmare of the Twenty-First Century Worker”
Dany Jacob, State University of New York at Buffalo
“‘But there is no real me’: the film adaptation of the literary dandy”
Saturday, October 15 – 4:45
pm - 5:45 pm
LFA Meeting
LFA Meeting
