According to Frederic Jameson, the cinema is considered the most prodigious form of the art of intertextualization in the post modern era because films are readily accessible to all members of society and can be interpreted with an array of meanings. How do film adaptations fit into the scheme of intertextualization that Jameson describes? How do screen adaptations offer fresh approaches to cinematic art, literary theory, and cultural politics? This year’s panel will explore cinematic adaptations from fiction or non-fiction that speak to any of the following ideas/issues: addressing the current cultural climate, negotiating and/or undermining the boundaries between high and low culture, reading the contemporary into the past, reading the past into the contemporary, and portraying the subjective “I.”

Send abstracts by April 15 to:

Micki Nyman
St. Louis University, English Department
Humanities Bldg.
3800 Lindell
St. Louis, MO 63108
or nyman@slu.edu