The Writer on Film: Screening Literary Authorship

Hosted by the Film and Literature Programme of the Department of English and Related Literature

in association with The Humanities Research Centre

Visible

and Invisible

Authorships

The 7th Annual International Conference of the Association of Adaptation Studies

27th – 28th September 2012

The Humanities Research Centre (Berrick Saul Building)

University of York (Campus West)

THURSDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2012

8:50 – 9:30Registration and tea/coffee (BSB foyer)

9:30 – 9:40Welcome and orientation (Bowland Auditorium) – Judith Buchanan

9:45 – 11:00Session 1 Panels

Female Authorship
Chair:Julian North
Venue: Bowland / Shakespeare on Screen
Chair: Graham Holderness
Venue: Seminar Room 1 / Culture Boxed?:
Televisual Adaptations

Chair: Alex Beaumont

Venue: Seminar Room 2 / 'Narrative and Cultural Identity'

Chair: Ognyan Kovachev

Venue: The Treehouse
9:45 -10:05 / Monika Pietrzak-Franger, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Cinematic Oblivion to Female Authorship" / Deborah Cartmell, “Sound Shakespeare Films and the Resurrection of the Author on Screen” / Jeremy Strong, “Melmotte, Maxwell, and ‘Wandering Jews’ in modern adaptations” / This 2-person panel starts at 10:05
10:05 - 10:25 / Imelda Whelehan, “Sexing the Single Girl: Adapting Helen Gurley Brown without reading her book” / Yukiko Mori, “Voice of Kurosawa, Voice of Shakespeare and Voice of Nature: Serpent Images in Ran” / Amanda Wowk, “Constructing Culture: Re-Reading Dostoevsky on the Small Screen” / Ruth Gutiérrez and Isadora García Avis, “Narrative and Cultural Identity. Remaking Life on Mars in Spain: the case of La Chica de Ayer”
10:25 - 10:45 / Rachel Carroll, “It was the music that made me: music, gender and authorship in Lynn Ramsay's 2002 film adaptation of Alan Warner's Morvern Callar” / John Blakeley, “Derek Jarman and the ars longa vita tradition” / Jonathan Bignell,
“Authorship and Adaptation: Beckett's Theatre Plays on Television” / Yvonne Griggs, “‘Adapting’ the Victorians: Creative Pathways into the Study of Neo-Victorian Metafiction on Screen”
10:45 - 11:00 /

Questions

11:00 - 11:25coffee and tea (BSB foyer)

11:30 - 12:20Plenary 1 (Bowland)DAVID NICHOLLS, novelist and screenwriter,in conversation with Judith Buchanan

12:25 - 13:20Lunch (upstairs in ‘The Treehouse’)

13:25 - 14:40Session 2 Panels

Adaptation and Institution

Chair: Charles Drazin

Venue: Bowland /

Authorial Invisibility

Chair: Jonathan Bignell

Venue: Seminar Room 1 / Explicit Authorial Configurations
Chair: Catherine Oakley

Venue: Seminar Room 2

13:25 - 13:45 / R. Barton Palmer, “Studio Style as Author: The Case of J.B. Priestley's Last Holiday” / Paul Wells, “All they ever see is Bernice: Form, Function and Filter in Animated Adaptation - I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors” / J.E.Smyth, ‘The Long Road of Women's Memory: Lillian Hellman, Alvin Sargent and Julia (1977)'
13:45 - 14:05 / Gertjan Willems, “Adaptation Policy: Film Policy and Adaptations in Flanders 1964-2002” / Jamie Sherry, “Adaptation's Invisible Author: The Screenwriter as Liminal Adaptor, and the Poetics of the Interstitial Screenplay” / Anne Gjelsvik, “Mixing Senses and Media in Howl”
14:05 - 14:25 / Andrew Spicer, “Rethinking Authorship in Film: The Struggle for Creative Control Between Michael Klinger (Producer) and Wilbur Smith (Writer)” / Isabelle Roblin, “The Visible/Invisible Screenwriter: the Strange Case of Harold Pinter” / Antonio Martínez Illán, “The Poet's and the director's authorship: Joseph Brodsky's memoir and Krazanovski's film”
14:25 - 14:45 / Andrew Higson, “Individual and institutional authorship in The Madness of King George” / Joana Moura, "Authorship in Letters: The Example of Peter Handke´s Invisible Presence in Der Himmel über Berlin" / Bethany Layne, “‘I did it, I':
Contemporary Reinscriptions of Sylvia
Plaths's Journals, 1998-2003”
14:45 – 15:05 / Questions /

Questions

/ Questions

15:05– 15:25Book circus. Announcing books in area newly published and/or forthcoming(Bowland). Chair: Alex Beaumont.

15:25 – 15:45coffee and tea (BSB foyer)

15:45 –17:00Session 3 Panels

Theories of Authorship

and Adaptation: Interrogated,

Fallacious and Absent

Chair: Tom Leitch

Venue: The Bowland / E. M. Forster’s Maurice:
Adaptation(s), Authorship(s) and Reappraisal(s)

Chair: Hanna Rochlitz

Venue: Seminar Room 1 / Cinemas of Creative Departure
Chair: Jamie Sherry
Venue: Seminar Room 2
15:45 – 16:05 / Laurence Raw, “What is ‘authorship’?” / Claire Monk,
“‘That’s [never] finished’: Maurice as adaptation without ending, from Forster’s palimpsest to fan-text” / Petr Bubeníček, “Who is the author here? Authorship in the Czech New Wave adaptations”
16:05 – 16:25 / Kamilla Elliott, “Twelve Fallacies in Contemporary Adaptation Theory, 2012” / Suzanne Speidel, “‘Scenes of marvelous variety': the work-in-progress screenplays of Maurice” / Douglas Morrey, “Authorship, Adaptation and the Decline of the French New Wave”
16:25 - 16:45 / Jane Sunderland, “Why the gap in studies of stage adaptations of novels?: methodological issues” / Nikolai Endres, “Plato's Ongoing Lives: The Adaptations of E. M. Forster's Maurice” / Dennis Rothermel, “The Virtues of Taking
Liberties with the text in Stanley Kubrick’s
Barry Lyndon, Erich Rohmer’s The
Marquise of O and Ang Lee’s Sense and
Sensibility”
16:45 – 17:00 / Questions / Questions /

Questions

17:00 - 18:15Session 4 Panels

Screening the Victorians

Chair: Jonathan Bignell

Venue: Bowland

Epics

Chair: Nikolai Endres

Venue: Seminar Room 1

/ Opera, Ballet and Story Transmission
Chair:Claire Monk
Venue: Seminar Room 2
17:00- 17:20 / This 2-person panel starts at 17:20 / Jon Solomon, “Adapting Ben-Hur: Popular Novel, Pantomime, Broadway Spectacular and Films” / Michael Halliwell, “Finding and giving voice in operatic adaptation: A Streetcar Named Desire and 1984”
17:20 - 17:40 / Christine Geraghty, “What Happened to the Fog?: Debates about the Visual Organization of Bleak House” / Sinan Akilli, “The Author as Mirage: Polyphony, Multiple Authorship and Mythification in Lawrence of Arabia” / Hanna Rochlitz, “Forster adapts Melville: Forsterian Narrative Patterns in Billy Budd”
17:40 – 18:00 / Katie Moten, “Authoring Wives and Daughters: BBC + Austen + Davies = Gaskell?” / Ognyan Kovachev, “O Brother, Where Art Thou: Noman in the Mart of Competitive Identity" /

Charles Drazin, “A Dialogic Dance: From

The Red Shoesto Black Swan”

18:00 – 18:15 /

Questions

/ Questions

19:30 for 19:45Conference Dinner– Bedern Hall (in the centre of town)

FRIDAY 28th SEPTEMBER 2012

8:45 – 9.10Tea/coffee(and registration for Friday arrivals) (BSB foyer)

9:15 – 10:55Session 5 Panels

Authorial Visibility

Chair: Andrew Higson

Venue:Bowland / Improper Shakespeare?
Chair: Deborah Cartmell
Venue: Seminar Room 1 / Adapting Women
Chair: Imelda Whelehan
Venue: Seminar Room 2
9:15 - 9:35 / This 2-person panel starts at 9:55 / Douglas Lanier,
“Kill Shakespeare and the Popular Death
of the Author” / Catherine Han, “The Masked Author and the Masquerading Auteur: Elizabeth Taylor's Angel and Francois Ozon's Angel”
9:35 – 9:55 / Dorothea Schuller, “Improper
Shakespeares: The Sonnets, Sexuality
and the Authorship Question” / Larry Gray, “More Shrugs: Ayn Rand's Legacy Part Two”
9:55 - 10:15 / Elzbieta Rokosz-Piejko, “Authorship (Re)claimed - Director's Commentary in Special Features of DVD editions as a way to Claim or Reclaim the Authorship in Selected Films and Television Adaptations” / Jennifer Henke, “Shakespeare Goes Manga” / Zhu Jianxin, “Negotiating Between Lust and Caution: Ang Lee’s Adaptation of Eileen Chang’s Lust, Caution”
10:15 - 10:35 / Pascal Nicklas, “Resurrecting the Author as Media Persona: Authorship, Agency and Adaptation in media-convergent culture” / Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “Shakespeare and the Slash Authors” / Lauri Kitsnik, “Female Screenwriters and Literary Adaptation in the 1950s Japanese Cinema”
10:35 - 10:55 /

Questions

10:55 – 11.15tea and coffee

11:20 – 12:05Plenary 2 (Bowland): ISOBEL DIXON & SIMON BARRACLOUGH ‘Psycho Poetica’

12:10 – 13:00Session 6 Panels

Mashups, Composites
and Intermedial
Encounters
Chair: Alex Beaumont
Venue: Bowland /

Sherlock Holmes

Chair:Laurence Raw
Venue: Seminar Room 1 /

Multiple Authorings

Chair: Catherine Han

Venue: Seminar Room 2
12:10 - 12:30 / Eckart Voights, “BASTARDaptation: On the Ambivalent Authorships, Hybrid Textualities and'Complexified Meanings of Mashup Culture” / Ashley Polasek, “The Men who became Sherlock Holmes: Understanding Performance as Authorship” / Sarah Artt, “We Need to Talk About Kevin and Heathcliff: metatextual authorships in Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin and Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights”
12:30 - 12:50 / Nicola McCartney, “The Artistic Multitude” / Thomas Van Parys and
Heidi Peeters, "Sherlock,
Consulting Author" / Ana Moya, “When Borderlands
Are Where We Live: Disgrace,
Invictus and District 9”
12:50 - 13:00 / Questions /

Questions

/ Questions

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (upstairs in ‘The Treehouse’)

13:00 -14:00Lunch and Meeting of the Adaptation Editorial Board (upstairs in the Centre for Modern Studies)

14:00 - 14:55AAS AGM (Bowland)

15:00 - 16:05Session 7 Panels

Theatre to Screen
Chair:Douglas Lanier
Venue: Bowland /

Agency, Brand, Children’s Narratives

Chair: Petr Bubeníček

Venue: Seminar Room 1

Oral Story-Telling and Adapting

Oneself

Chair: Laurence Raw

Venue: Seminar Room 2
15:00 - 15:20 / Eirik Frisvold Hanssen, “Silent ghosts on the screen: adapting Ibsen in the 1910s” / Richard Butt, “Borrowing the little people: questions of agency in adaptations of Mary Norton's The Borrowers” / Jonathan Roper, “Vincent Thomas Sternberg, adapter of Popular Stories of the English Peasantry”
15:20 - 15:40 / Isobel Johnston, “Authorial Dogmatism vs. Letting Joan Speak in George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan and Carl Th. Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc / Anya Benson, “Adaptation in Japanese children's media mixes: The immortality of Fujiko F. Fujio” / Michelle Ryan-Sautour, “Angela Carter and the Rebirth of the Author: Intermedial Flickering of Authorial Identity in The Company of Wolves”
15:40 -16:00 / Stephanie Benson, “To kill or not to kill: The Libertine from A Spanish Story to Laurence Dunmore via Stephen Jeffreys, Thomas Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, Don Giovanni and Don Juan” / James Russell, “Directing the Franchise Blockbuster: David Yates and Harry Potter” / Meltem Kiran-Raw, “The Author as Adapter: Susan Glaspell's Trifles and ‘A Jury of Her Peers’”
16:00 – 16:15 / Questions / Questions / Questions

16:15 – 16:35coffee, tea and cake (BSB foyer)

16:40 – 17:30Plenary 3 (Bowland):TOM LEITCH ‘Authorship vs. Adaptation’

End of conference

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