Cross-media cooperation between the publishing, theatrical and film
  industries: an interdisciplinary colloquium

  Institute for English Studies
  School of Advanced Study
  University of London
  Saturday 12 April 2008


  Today popular authors can work with one company which markets or
  syndicates all their rights in book publication, film production and
  merchandising. The origins of this practice lie in the 1920s and 1930s
  when film companies approached publishing companies to purchase film
  options on the copyrights of their novels. Some authors benefited from
  cross media tie-ins and were  able to exert considerable control over
  the marketing and merchandising of their stories. Others chose to
  leave it to the growing body of professional adapters, screen writers
  and literary agents.

  The aim of this day colloquium is to draw together research from
  different disciplines to examine the extent of cross-media cooperation
  between media professionals, agents, and authors and ask how the past
  has shaped practices of the present day.

  There is a nominal cost for the colloquium. Please see the ies website
  registration details at
  http://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/about/ 
conferenceregistration.htm



  Programme

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  Panel 1. 10am  (90mins)


  Speakers

  Prof Alexis Weedon, University of Bedfordshire
  Some observations on cross-media co-operation in Britain in the 1920s
  and 1930s

  Dr Vincent L. Barnett, University of Bedfordshire
  Elinor Glyn. The Novelist As Hollywood Star


  Dr Mary Hammond, University of Southampton
  Hitchcock and Hall Caine: the Victorian Bestseller on the Silent  
Screen

  Invited chair Prof Simon Eliot (IES, University of London) will lead
  the discussion of changes to the profession of authorship/ author
  practices from late Victorian times to 20s and 30s and literary
  sources/archives


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  Panel 2 (60 mins) 11.30-12.30

  Speakers

  Dr Amy Sargeant, Reader in Film, University of Warwick
  Frederick Britten Austin: Boy's Own Stories, Girls' Romances and
  Interwar Politics


  Nathalie Morris, UEA Norwich
  Eminent British Authors and the Stoll Film Company

  The invited chair Dr Mike Hammond (University of Southampton) will
  lead a discussion of film history and cross-overs into publishing
  around ww1

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  Lunch
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  Panel 3  1.15 pm
  (60 mins)

  Speakers

  Dr Simon Frost, Institute of literature, media and cultural studies,
  University of Southern Denmark
  A Toga Tale of Ingomar the Barbarian: in print, in drawing rooms, at
  fairgrounds and in Hollywood.


  Dr Lawrence Napper, University of Greenwich and at King's College,
  London
  'Not over-exercising our intellectual powers in the choice of
  subjects': The Gainsborough scenario department, 1929-31.

  Invited chair Dr Melanie Bell (University of Newcastle) will lead the
  discussion about film and theatrical industries practices, the role of
  reviewers
  both within the industry and as critics, and tensions between them
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  Panel 2.30 (90 mins)

  The relevance to the understanding of contemporary practices

  Speakers


  Prof Imelda Whelehan (De Montford University)
  Raising contemporary issues: the Field of adaptation

  Dr Simone Murray, Recorded presentation from Monash Austrlia
  What Are You Working On?: The Shifting Role Of The Author In An Era Of
  Cross-Media Adaptation

  Prof Juliet Gardiner
  Talk: Responsive meanings: the case of Atonement

  Chaired by Prof Alexis Weedon


  Close 4.30