CALL FOR PAPERS: 1996 NORTHEAST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION APRIL 19-20, 1996 MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA [posted on e-grad; amlit; screen; & amstdy lists] Paper sought to complete a panel for the 1996 NEMLA conference in Montreal. Since the final panel must be sent to NEMLA by 15 October, papers or abstracts need to arrive by snail- or e- mail by 7 October at the absolute latest. SESSION TITLE: New Technologies of the Moving Image and the Contemporary Novel: Film Into Literature and Literature Into Film PROPOSAL DESCRIPTION: This panel will focus on the mutual influence of film on the twentieth-century novel and the novel's influence on film. While the panel will certainly consider papers using, for instance, adaptations or novelizations as their primary investigation, the panel is especially interested in what Andre Bazin has usefully termed the "cross fertilization" of the two media: that is, how novelists have adapted filmic narrative strategies into the special demands of their verbal medium, and how, in turn, recent film techniques (not only formal adaptations) display postmodern strategies and themes developed in prose fiction. Finally, the panel hopes to use analyses of the mutual influence of film and the novel to suggest where both film (and video technology generally) and the novel might be headed at the millennium's end in the new world of hypertext fiction and computer-generated "virtual reality." CHAIR: Douglas G. Baldwin 394 Manor Dr. Nazareth, PA 18064 (610) 746-3684 [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]