Author: kristenfiggins
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CFP: Feeling the Limits: Censorship and Creative Freedom in Theatre, Film, and Visual Arts in the Age of Populism
Artistic freedom has been recognised as an international right that needs to be protected because it is threatened when artists question political ideologies, religious beliefs, and social mores. However, today the meaning of such concepts as “artistic freedom” or “freedom of expression” seems more complex and in need of greater…
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Using Nineteen Eighty-Four to Adapt Experience in the Classroom
Author: Matthew Ari Elfenbein, Ph.D.Peer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Course: “Film Criticism” at Florida Atlantic University What I learned teaching adaptation today is that students can deeply engage with film adaptations like Nineteen Eighty-Four (Michael Radford, 1984) even without prior knowledge of the source material. The film’s bleak portrayal of oppression…
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Review a Shakespeare Adaptation
Developed for a “Shakespeare on Screen” course, this assignment focuses on evaluating reviews of Shakespeare films appearing in the film magazine Empire.
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Audiovisual Adaptation Project
Author: Laura MuñozPeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Assignment Overview Summary: The final project for this course asked the students to create audiovisual adaptations of some aspect of the novel. For this assignment, “audiovisual” simply required students to pair sound and video in any combination they preferred, without requiring them…
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Adaptation Exercise
Developed for a first-year seminar titled “Adapting Cervantes’ Don Quixote for Film”, the assignments include an “Adaptation Exercise” and a “Final Project.”
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LFA/AAS 2025: Adaptation and Aging [CFP]
Adaptation and Aging A call for papers for the fourth LFA/AAS Online ConferenceFebruary 20-22 2025Apply here How old are you? How do you feel about getting older? And how will you still be able to carry out your responsibilities as you age? Most people had reservations asking these questions of…
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CFP: 2025 AAS Annual Conference (1-4 June, 2025: Istanbul Bilgi University, Türkiye)
Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth: 20th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference 1-4 June 2025, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye Abstracts Due: 1 December, 2024 Keynotes (CONFIRMED): The 2025 Association of Adaptation Studies Conference invites scholars, researchers, and media creators across all formats to share their work under the theme of “Adaptation,…
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Literatures in English and Film
The “Literatures in English and Film” course at the University of Oviedo, Spain, is a 6-credit introductory module aimed at second-year English Studies students. The course provides a foundational understanding of the relations between literature and cinema, focusing on the analysis of films adapted from literary works in English. The…
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Adaptation, Archives, and Digital Remix Culture
The upper-division research seminar, led by Eleni Palis, explores adaptation theories and videographic criticism through a mash-up methodology. Focused on literary-to-film adaptations and remix practices, the course includes an archival segment utilizing the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound. Students complete a research project or video essay.
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Modern Fairy Tale: Contemporary Retellings of “Once Upon a Time”
This course will unpack how fairy tale adaptations across cultures both reflect and inform the values adherent to distinct time periods, places, and/or communities. We will also reflect upon the personal impacts that fairy tales and their modern adaptations have had on our own lives and understandings of the world.
Adaptation Today 