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Dear colleagues, 

We welcome submissions for the panel(s), "From the Page to the Italian Screen" happening at SAMLA November 13th-15th, 2015 in Durham, NC. 

Please submit a brief abstract, brief bio, and A/V requirements by June 10th 2015 to Rebecca Bauman, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY ([log in to unmask])  and Saskia Ziolkowski, Duke University ([log in to unmask]).

From Bicycle Thieves to Blow-Up to Gomorrah many of Italy’s most famous and important films are adaptations of literary works. Rather than explore the differences between adaptations of a single work or author, such as Shakespeare or Jane Austen, this panel will discuss the issues surrounding one national tradition's cinematic and television adaptations, including films set in Italy, in Italian, or by Italian directors. This panel welcomes submissions that deal with any aspect of adaptation and Italian cinema, from the competition between the arts, to adapting short stories versus novels, to the differences between adapting a work from another language rather than from Italian, to the reasons for a particular director’s desire to adapt certain works (Visconti's The Leopard and Death in Venice), to multiple adaptations of one author's works (Alberto Moravia), to the challenges of working with a living author, like Elena Ferrante (Mario Martone), or the challenges of adapting the classics, like the Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini).