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Reviews Editor Jennie Hayes University College Falmouth, Dartington Campus j.hayes@dartington.ac.uk
Journal of Arts and Communities will be released in 2009.
[Pictured above: Head of Department for Drama & Music Mr Michael Carklin]
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The Journal of Arts and Communities seeks to provide a critical examination of the practices known as community or participatory arts, encompassing work which incorporates active creative collaboration between artists and people in a range of communities of place and interest.
Colleagues will be delighted to learn that the inaugural issue of the Journal of Arts & Communities has appeared.
Prof Hamish Fyfe is Principal Editor of this international, peer-reviewed journal which is published by Intellect and housed within CCI.
[Pictured above: Prof Stephen Lacey]
Dr Márta Minier assisted in leading the Journal's first issue to fruition and the editorial board includes CCI colleagues Michael Carklin, Dr Rea Dennis and Prof Stephen Lacey.
[Pictured above: Dr Rea Dennis]
Warm congratulations to all involved.
Richard
Prof Richard J. Hand FRSA, Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan, The Atrium, 86-88 Adam Street, Cardiff CF24 2FN Wales, UK.
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For costs and registration please contact: Dr Márta Minier, Assistant Editor
Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance
University of Glamorgan Atrium
86-88 Adam Street Cardiff CF24 2FN UK
Tel.: (0044) 1443 668548
Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance
An interdisciplinary and international conference
University of Glamorgan, Cardiff 26-28 June 2008
‘Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance’
(26-28 June, ATRiuM)
Adaptation – the reworking of a verbal text or another artefact for a new audience in a different genre or media – is as old a practice as cultural production itself, yet its systematic study – adaptation studies – is only a recently emerging discipline.
The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries with its strengths in drama, music, media and communication and having strong links with the creative writing unit of the university is the editorial home of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and is now hosting a major international and interdisciplinary conference that will shape the formation of this neglected field of research.
The event is open to scholars from as diverse, yet closely interconnected areas as the study of film, theatre, opera, music, dance, television, radio, games and graphic narratives.
Whereas some of the most recent research in the field focused on the connections between adaptation and appropriation, this conference also addresses analogies and differences between adaptation and translation processes.
The conference embraces a plethora of perspectives characteristic of the encompassed disciplines and facilitates a negotiation between these stances, whether they emphasise the creative or the interpretive aspect of translation and adaptation.
Both the concepts and independent cases of adaptation and translation will receive attention.
The event will provide room for the investigation of transformative strategies both against the respective cultural and historical settings and generic or media-based criteria.
Keynote speakers:
Jack Bradley (Literary Consultant; former Literary Manager, National Theatre, London)
Dr Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University)
Professor Michael Cronin (Dublin City University)
Professor Steffen Hantke (Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Professor Graham Ley (University of Exeter)
Dr John Milton, (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Professor Jonathan Powell (Royal Holloway; former Head of Drama, BBC)
Professor Eckart Voigts-Virchow (University of Siegen, Germany)
The conference is organised by Professor Richard Hand (University of Glamorgan), Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol) and Dr Márta Minier (University of Glamorgan).
In addition to the main academic programme, there will also be a series of artistic events including:
Thursday 26th-Saturday 28th June, available throughout the conference, B (earth) : a painting – voice – light installation.
Thursday 26th June, 10.40am-6pm, Hotel – Two Rooms : a participatory performance.
Thursday 26th June, 6pm onwards – Cabaret performance by dirty fit grannies
Adaptation – the reworking of a verbal text or another artefact for a new audience in a different genre or media – is as old a practice as cultural production itself, yet its systematic study – adaptation studies – is only a recently emerging discipline.
The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries with its strengths in drama, music, media and communication and having strong links with the creative writing unit of the university is the editorial home of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and is now hosting a major international and interdisciplinary conference that will shape the formation of this neglected field of research.
The event is open to scholars from as diverse, yet closely interconnected areas as the study of film, theatre, opera, music, dance, television, radio, games and graphic narratives.
Whereas some of the most recent research in the field focused on the connections between adaptation and appropriation, this conference also addresses analogies and differences between adaptation and translation processes.
The conference embraces a plethora of perspectives characteristic of the encompassed disciplines and facilitates a negotiation between these stances, whether they emphasise the creative or the interpretive aspect of translation and adaptation.
Both the concepts and independent cases of adaptation and translation will receive attention.
The event will provide room for the investigation of transformative strategies both against the respective cultural and historical settings and generic or media-based criteria.
The conference therefore offers a range of platforms to participants, including plenaries, papers, workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, screenings and performances so as to initiate dialogue between theoretical and more practice-based approaches to adaptation and translation.
Provisional keynote speakers include:
Dr Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University)
Professor Steffen Hantke (Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Professor Graham Ley (University of Exeter)
Dr John Milton, (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Dr Anthony Minghella (British Film Institute, London, UK)
Professor Eckart Voigts-Virchow (University of Siegen, Germany)
[Pictured Above: A provisional list of the conference's keynote speaker's includes notable 'Adaptation' scholars including Dr Deborah Cartmell, Reader in English and Head of the Graduate Centre in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester.]
The conference is organised by Professor Richard Hand (University of Glamorgan), Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol) and Dr Márta Minier (University of Glamorgan).
Please send enquiries, abstracts for papers (max. 250 words) and proposals for masterclasses/workshops, book stalls, screenings, performances or any other platforms of presentation to afp2008@hotmail.co.uk by Friday 29 February 2008.
To inspect the inaugural issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance please visit http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421 or to order a hard copy please contact Luke Roberts: Luke@intellectbooks.com.
Submitted by:
Dr Márta Minier Assistant Editor / Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Atrium / University of Glamorgan Adam Street Cardiff CF24 2XF UK Tel: 01443 668548
And here's a related extract of another past post:
Dear Colleagues:
The first issue of this new Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance has just been published by Intellect.
It is edited by Richard Hand and Katja Krebs with the help of Martha Minier and marks a step forward for Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries (CCI/ATRiuM) in having an internationally refereed journal coming out of the faculty.
This is a fantastic achievement and is recognition of CCI/ATRiuM's growing stature in this field of research.
Editors: Richard J. Hand University of Glamorgan rhand[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Katja Krebs University of Glamorgan kkrebs[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.
In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.
Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.
Aims and Scope:
Adaptation in the form of the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.
In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.
Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.
As an academic discipline, Adaptation Studies has begun to establish itself in the last few decades as an important area of scholarship and research which continues to make significant contributions to our analysis and understanding of a complex and increasingly diverse world culture.
Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance is a new, peer- reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media.
Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media.
We would like to invite contributions that offer historical, theoretical or practice- based considerations and discussions of adaptation in performance in the context of one of the following topics:
Translation as adaptation / Theatre / Film / Television / Radio / Gaming / Graphic narratives Submission Details
To submit to future editions, please, send your completed papers (4,000 – 6,000 words) accompanied by a short CV to the editors Richard Hand and Katja Krebs.
If you would like to discuss any specific proposals before submitting a completed paper, please contact the editors.
Short ‘Notes and Comments’ contributions (up to 1000 words) that facilitate debate and exchange will also be considered.
Articles in the current issues include:
Art of the Past: Adapting Henry James’s The Golden Bowl Authors: Sarah Artt
Adaptation as Education: A Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Authors: Freda Chapple
In Praise of Treason: Translating Calabar Authors: Pedro de Senna
Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Dominant Culture Authors: Jim O’Loughlin
Translating the City: A Community Theatre Version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire in Newcastle-upon-Tyne Authors: Duˇska Radosavljevic
It has been estimated that an overwhelming percentage of Welsh films and television dramas are intentionally based upon other literary sources.
This overwhelming dependence upon literary adaptation is primarily from important Welsh literary or cultural sources.
This suggests an attempt to ‘recall and recollect’ and to re-‘write the nation’, after a period of suppressed or neglected representations of Welsh-ness.
While Dave Berry’s book and other studies have attributed this Welsh dependence upon literary adaptation as ‘laziness’ (Berry 1994: 234), we see it as being related to issues of post-colonial ‘re-telling’ of a national story, or more related to the economics of production.
For example, Stephen Bayly directed Joni Jones (1982) as a well-received television series for S4C, an adaptation based upon the well-known children’s stories by R. Garallt Jones entitled Gwared y Gwirion or ‘Redemption of the Innocents’.
It is often the case in Wales, that directors will create a series which is actually suited to be converted into a feature film at a later date, should the funding and political will be present to effect the re-formatting.
Additionally, one of Wales's most famous sons is Andrew Davies, who is known around the world as the 'Prince of Adaptation'.
Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter.
He is the creator of the children's Marmalade Atkins television series and A Very Peculiar Practice, and is also well known for his adaptations of classic works of literature, including the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 1998 adaptation of Vanity Fair.
Literary and stage adaptations have added clout with film production investors, who assume that a successful novel or stage play will naturally make a successful film.
Some screenwriters have been known to 'invent' a novel AFTER writing a film script, for purposes of marketing the film, and for raising venture capital.
In small nations, broadcasting drama department Commissioning Editors often opt for an adaptation. This satisfies several remits: nationalistic and cultural agendas are fulfilled, while it's assumed that an established audience exists for the new film or TV series.
My favorite book on film and literature in general is Tom Corrigan's 'Film & Literature' (1999, Prentic Hall Inc / Simon & Schuster).
Here's a pleasant Youtube tribute to Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice:
'Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature' (Paperback) by John Desmond (Author), Peter Hawkes (Author) is concise and readable new text for courses in Film Adaptation or Film and Literature introduces students to the art of adapting works of literature for film.
'Adaptation' describes the interwoven histories of literature and film, presents key analytical approaches to adaptation, and provides an in-depth overview of adaptations of novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction, and animation.
The book concludes with an analysis of why adaptations sometimes fail.
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
Pictured above: Associate Dean of Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Glamorgan Professor Steve Blandford.]
The Almond and the Seahorse - Clwyd Theatr Cymru
Prestigious Appointment for Professor Blandford March 26, 2008
Professor Steve Blandford of the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries has been appointed as a board member of the new English Language National Theatre for Wales.
Phil George, Chair of the organisation commented on the high calibre of applicants for the exciting and challenging positions as board members of the new Theatre company,
"I was delighted by the number and the strength of applications for board membership."
"It shows the tide of goodwill in support of the National Theatre. The new board is full of experience, energy and diverse skills".
[Pictured above: Phil George has been unveiled as the chair of new National English Language Theatre.]
Rhondda born, Phil George is the co-founder and Co-Creative Director of BAFTA award winning Television Production Company, Green Bay Media Ltd in Cardiff. Phil was educated at Porth County Grammar School before going on to read English at Oxford University. Formerly Head of Arts, Music and Features for BBC Wales, Phil co-founded Green Bay Media Limited in 2001, where he will continue with his role as Creative Director.
The National English Language Theatre will introduce different styles and imaginative theatre choices as well as introducing more varied directorial voices and developing collaborative partnerships.
It will feature star talent and will also nurture new talent in Wales.
The new company, once created, will not be building-based. This will give it the freedom to commission and create productions.
The National English Language Theatre will work closely with the existing theatrical infrastructure to create high profile productions that will sometimes move outside the traditional theatre space.
Selected Publications of Professor Steve Blandford:
Film, Drama and The Break-Up of Britain, Bristol, Intellect, 2007.
‘Dramatic Fictions in a ‘Postcolonial’ Wales’ in Aaron J and Chris Williams (ed) Postcolonial Wales, Cardiff, UWP, 2005.
‘BBC drama at the margins: the contrasting fortunes of Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh television drama in the 1990’s in Bignell J. and Stephen Lacey (ed) Popular television drama: Critical perspectives, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2005.
‘Wales at the Oscars – Heritage Film and recent Welsh Cinema’, Cfyrwng, Vol 2, April 2005.
The Film Studies Dictionary (with Barry K. Grant and Jim Hillier), London, Edward Arnold, 2000.
Wales on Screen, Bridgend, Seren, 2000.
4 plays for theatre, Worcester, J.Garnett Miller, 1998.
Cardiff ATRiuM: Storytelling Symposium in the Welsh Capital 18-19 March 2008
George Ewart Evans Lecture and Reception Tuesday 18th March 2008
Professor Richard Bauman will present his keynote lecture on Tuesday evening, this will be followed by a reception and dinner in the newly opened Atrium building of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Glamorgan.
The dinner will be followed by story and music performance by Guto Dafis.
Professor Richard Bauman The Remediation of Storytelling: Narrative Performance on Early Commercial Sound Recording
Professor Richard Bauman, Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has published widely on the ethnographic study of language and performance.
He has served as president of the Semiotic Society of America, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and the Society of Fellows of the American Folklore Society.
Among many other professional activities, he has been chair of the Folklife Advisory Council of the Smithsonian Institution, editor of the Journal of American Folklore, and a member of more than 15 editorial boards.
He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Folklore Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and twice holder of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.
Professor Bauman’s keynote lecture will focus on narrative and development of sound recording.
The years between 1895 and 1920 represented a formative period in the commercial development of sound recording in the U.S. as nascent recording companies attempted to create a consumer market for phonograph records and the machines on which to play them.
As recording companies sought to discover what might attract consumers to purchase records, they drew heavily upon traditional performance forms, such as storytelling, oratory, and religious sermons, and upon popular entertainments, such as minstrel shows, early vaudeville, medicine shows, tent shows, and Chautauqua, all of which had proven themselves attractive to popular audiences.
The adaptation of these traditional and popular performance forms to phonograph records involves the process of remediation, specifically, the rendering of embodied, face-to-face performance forms through the mediation of another communicative technology, sound recording.
In this paper, I explore what happens when we render oral storytelling, formerly experienced live, in situations of copresence, when the immediacy of copresence is transformed into a mediated experience.
Chair: Professor Mike Wilson
[Pictured above: George Ewart Evans (1909–88) was a pioneering oral historian. He published a series of books examining the disappearing customs and way of life of rural Suffolk, the best know of these is Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay. He was also an accomplished story writer and wrote short-stories, novels and poems. George Ewart Evans was born and raised in the mining community of Abercynon, a stone’s throw from the University of Glamorgan where the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling is based.]
George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Annual Lecture and Symposium 2008 - Storytelling and Authenticity
Event Date March 18, 2008 10 a.m. – March 19, 2008 Location – Atrium
The George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling annual lecture and symposium takes place on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th March. This year we are holding the event in our new ATRiuM building in the centre of Cardiff.
Final details are still to be confirmed but so far we are pleased to be able to announce the following sessions
George Ewart Evans Lecture and Reception Tuesday 18th March 2008
Professor Richard Bauman will present his keynote lecture on Tuesday evening, this will be followed by a reception and dinner in the newly opened Atrium building of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Glamorgan.
The dinner will be followed by story and music performance by Guto Dafis.
Professor Richard Bauman The Remediation of Storytelling: Narrative Performance on Early Commercial Sound Recording Professor Richard Bauman, Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, has published widely on the ethnographic study of language and performance.
He has served as president of the Semiotic Society of America, the Society for Linguistic Anthropology, and the Society of Fellows of the American Folklore Society. Among many other professional activities, he has been chair of the Folklife Advisory Council of the Smithsonian Institution, editor of the Journal of American Folklore, and a member of more than 15 editorial boards.
He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Folklore Fellow of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, and twice holder of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.
Professor Bauman’s keynote lecture will focus on narrative and development of sound recording. The years between 1895 and 1920 represented a formative period in the commercial development of sound recording in the U.S. as nascent recording companies attempted to create a consumer market for phonograph records and the machines on which to play them.
As recording companies sought to discover what might attract consumers to purchase records, they drew heavily upon traditional performance forms, such as storytelling, oratory, and religious sermons, and upon popular entertainments, such as minstrel shows, early vaudeville, medicine shows, tent shows, and Chautauqua, all of which had proven themselves attractive to popular audiences.
The adaptation of these traditional and popular performance forms to phonograph records involves the process of remediation, specifically, the rendering of embodied, face-to-face performance forms through the mediation of another communicative technology, sound recording.
In this paper, I explore what happens when we render oral storytelling, formerly experienced live, in situations of copresence, when the immediacy of copresence is transformed into a mediated experience.
Chair: Professor Mike Wilson
Symposium Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th March 2008
This two day symposium will examine issues raised in the keynote lecture and the implications for storytelling and authenticity. The symposium is structured around a series of keynote ‘provocations’, with maximum time allocated for debate and discussion on the issues raised.
Tuesday 18th March 2008
Tale-Enders: Gathering the Narrative Heritage of Welsh Cricket Launch
We are proud to be able to launch this project which brings together the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling and Glamorgan Cricket to explore the use of storytelling and technology to populate the new Museum of Welsh Cricket at Sophia Gardens as part of the current £9.6 million redevelopment in advance of hosting an Ashes Tests in 2009.
The launch will be followed by a free buffet lunch.
Susie Pratt and Lisa Heledd Digital Storytelling
Susie Pratt (Research Fellow, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling) and Lisa Heledd (Capture Wales, BBC Wales and Postgraduate Researcher in Digital Storytelling, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling) will run a digital storytelling workshop.
This session will explore the latest developments in digital storytelling and present some of the current research being carried out by members of the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling team.
Joseph Sobol The Razor’s Edge: The American Storytelling Movement in 2008
Joseph Sobol (Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University), author of The House Between Earth and Sky: Harvesting New American Folktales and The Storytellers' Journey: An American Revival, will present a lecture and workshop exploring issues raised in the American Storytelling movement and the resonances they might have for people working in Wales and the UK.
The American Storytelling movement has matured in certain unmistakable ways—and not in others.
This mixed development has placed major stresses on the organizational base and on those working in the field.
This talk will identify some of the stresses—organizational, artistic, and economic--and suggest some avenues of potential evolution and relief.
Wednesday 19th March 2008
Dick Leith “Authenticity” and “Ownership”: How to Shut People Up
Academic and storyteller Dick Leith will explore his own recollections of the 1950s and 60s folk revival in Britain and how issues raised during that period are resurfacing today.
He will examine notions of the authentic voice and questions regarding how this concept has been used both to silence and to empower. Chair: Susie Pratt (Research Fellow, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling)
Professor Hande Birkalan Gedik Uses of Authenticity: Responsibility, Re-presentation and Re-contextualization of Folklore Performances
Professor Hande Birkalan Gedik (Associate Professor, Yeditepe University, Istanbul) will aim to bring light to the concepts of “authenticity” and “authority” in folklore performances in selective examples from Turkey.
She will be discussing these concepts primarily as a “native” woman and as a folklorist with an educational up-bringing in the American folkloristics. Chair: Joseph Sobol (Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University)
Neil Lanham 'Who is the truly educated man: The one who can grown onions or the man who can spell them?' - (George Ewart-Evans P.17 'The Horse in the Furrow 1960). A view from the onion grower's perspective
Neil Lanham was born in 1938 into a rudimentary small farm way of life. He observed early in his life that culture came from the spoken word of the indigenous vernacular people around him.
He has recorded both mentally and physically oral idioms ever since. This paper will investigate concepts of authenticity and indigenous voice. Chair: Hamish Fyfe (Co-Director, George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling and Professor of Arts in the Community)
Venue: Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, ATRiuM, University of Glamorgan, Adam Street, Cardiff Cost:
Lecture is FREE but booking is essential. Dinner and story and music performance: £30/€40 Symposium: £60 /€80 organisation, £40/€55 individual waged, £25/€35 individual unwaged
To book your place at this event call 01443 3668631 or email storytelling@glam.ac.uk
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
The Skillset Screen Academy Wales is co-ordinating a new FREE documentary festival in March (13th and 14th) at the Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport.
To book tickets call the Riverfront on (01633) 656757
Stranger than Fiction Wales Programme Thursday - 13/3/2008 The Studio Riverfront Arts Centre
18.30 - 20.00 Jennings Finest Hour (A BFI Presentation)
20.00 - 22.00 Bardsey, Senghennydd, Tiger Bay and Pill (A National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales Presentation)
Friday - 14/3/2008 The Studio Riverfront Arts Centre
13.00 - 15.00 Black Film Festival Wales Docs Q&A with guests to follow screening
15.00 - 16.00 Screening of award-winning graduate and student productions
16.00 - 17.30 FourDocs Screening and discussion
18.00 - 19.15 Jennings and Rotha (A BFI Presentation)
19.30 - 21.00 Anstey, Clarke and Grierson on film (A BFI Presentation)
21.00 - 22.30 Closing Reception sponsored by the Film Agency for Wales RSVP here to request a ticket for the reception which is open to anyone who has attended a screening over the two days.
Staff at Stranger than Fiction Wales:
Festival Manager: Hannah Raybould Festival Coordinator: Matthew Evans Festival Programmers: Humphry Trevelyan & Matthew Evans Guest Liaison: Matthew Evans Design: Sian Crandon, University of Wales, Newport Marketing/PR: Hannah Raybould & Rebecca Froggatt Translations: Owen Martell Volunteers: SSAW students and students of BA Documentary at IFSW
Hill of Dreams -- Best Documentary at the International Film School Awards 2005
Thanks to:
Dan Thomas at the Film Agency for Wales; Clare Harwood at the BFI; Undeg Griffiths and Iestyn Hughes at the National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales; Yvonne Connickie at the Black Welsh Film Festival; Rebecca Franckel at FourDocs; Lisa Nesbitt at BAFTA Cymru; Chris Morris at the International Film School Wales.
Welsh Capital's Cardiff ATRiuM Professors to feature on Sweeney Todd DVD January 23, 2008
Professors Richard Hand and Mike Wilson from the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries will be appearing on the DVD version of Tim Burton’s critically acclaimed new film Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
The two professors, whose new book London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror, has received considerable attention for its inclusion of a previously unpublished Noel Coward play, were interviewed for a documentary on ‘horror theatre’, which will appear as an ‘extra’ on the DVD when it is released later this year.
Grand-Guignol: French Theatre of Horror and London’s Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror by Richard J. Hand and Michael Wilson are both published by University of Exeter Press.
[Pictured above: Professor Mike Wilson, CCI Head of Research; Prof Richard Hand Professor of Theatre and Media Drama, CCI, backstage in Glasgow with Dr Paul Carr Principal Lecturer in Popular Music, CCI.]
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
Cultures of Translation: Adaptation in Film and Performance
An interdisciplinary and international conference
University of Glamorgan, Cardiff 26-28 June 2008
Contributions are invited to an international conference which focuses on various aspects of adaptation into film, performance, television, radio and other media.
Adaptation – the reworking of a verbal text or another artefact for a new audience in a different genre or media – is as old a practice as cultural production itself, yet its systematic study – adaptation studies – is only a recently emerging discipline.
The Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries with its strengths in drama, music, media and communication and having strong links with the creative writing unit of the university is the editorial home of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and is now hosting a major international and interdisciplinary conference that will shape the formation of this neglected field of research.
The event is open to scholars from as diverse, yet closely interconnected areas as the study of film, theatre, opera, music, dance, television, radio, games and graphic narratives.
Whereas some of the most recent research in the field focused on the connections between adaptation and appropriation, this conference also addresses analogies and differences between adaptation and translation processes.
The conference embraces a plethora of perspectives characteristic of the encompassed disciplines and facilitates a negotiation between these stances, whether they emphasise the creative or the interpretive aspect of translation and adaptation.
Both the concepts and independent cases of adaptation and translation will receive attention.
The event will provide room for the investigation of transformative strategies both against the respective cultural and historical settings and generic or media-based criteria.
The conference therefore offers a range of platforms to participants, including plenaries, papers, workshops, masterclasses, exhibitions, screenings and performances so as to initiate dialogue between theoretical and more practice-based approaches to adaptation and translation.
Provisional keynote speakers include:
Dr Deborah Cartmell (De Montfort University)
Professor Steffen Hantke (Sogang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Professor Graham Ley (University of Exeter)
Dr John Milton, (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Dr Anthony Minghella (British Film Institute, London, UK)
Professor Eckart Voigts-Virchow (University of Siegen, Germany)
[Pictured Above: A provisional list of the conference's keynote speaker's includes notable 'Adaptation' scholars including Dr Deborah Cartmell, Reader in English and Head of the Graduate Centre in the Faculty of Humanities at De Montfort University, Leicester.]
The conference is organised by Professor Richard Hand (University of Glamorgan), Dr Katja Krebs (University of Bristol) and Dr Márta Minier (University of Glamorgan).
Please send enquiries, abstracts for papers (max. 250 words) and proposals for masterclasses/workshops, book stalls, screenings, performances or any other platforms of presentation to afp2008@hotmail.co.uk by Friday 29 February 2008.
To inspect the inaugural issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance please visit http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals.php?issn=17536421 or to order a hard copy please contact Luke Roberts: Luke@intellectbooks.com.
Submitted by:
Dr Márta Minier Assistant Editor / Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance Atrium / University of Glamorgan Adam Street Cardiff CF24 2XF UK Tel: 01443 668548
And here's a related extract of another past post:
Dear Colleagues:
The first issue of this new Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance has just been published by Intellect.
It is edited by Richard Hand and Katja Krebs with the help of Martha Minier and marks a step forward for Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries (CCI/ATRiuM) in having an internationally refereed journal coming out of the faculty.
This is a fantastic achievement and is recognition of CCI/ATRiuM's growing stature in this field of research.
Editors: Richard J. Hand University of Glamorgan rhand[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Katja Krebs University of Glamorgan kkrebs[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Adaptation, or the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.
In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.
Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.
Aims and Scope:
Adaptation in the form of the conversion of oral, historical or fictional narratives into stage drama has been common practice for centuries.
In our own time the processes of cross-generic transformation continue to be extremely important in theatre as well as in the film and other media industries.
Adaptation and the related areas of translation and intertextuality continue to have a central place in our culture with a profound resonance across our civilisation.
As an academic discipline, Adaptation Studies has begun to establish itself in the last few decades as an important area of scholarship and research which continues to make significant contributions to our analysis and understanding of a complex and increasingly diverse world culture.
Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance is a new, peer- reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media.
Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media.
We would like to invite contributions that offer historical, theoretical or practice- based considerations and discussions of adaptation in performance in the context of one of the following topics:
Translation as adaptation / Theatre / Film / Television / Radio / Gaming / Graphic narratives Submission Details
To submit to future editions, please, send your completed papers (4,000 – 6,000 words) accompanied by a short CV to the editors Richard Hand and Katja Krebs.
If you would like to discuss any specific proposals before submitting a completed paper, please contact the editors.
Short ‘Notes and Comments’ contributions (up to 1000 words) that facilitate debate and exchange will also be considered.
Articles in the current issues include:
Art of the Past: Adapting Henry James’s The Golden Bowl Authors: Sarah Artt
Adaptation as Education: A Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Authors: Freda Chapple
In Praise of Treason: Translating Calabar Authors: Pedro de Senna
Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Dominant Culture Authors: Jim O’Loughlin
Translating the City: A Community Theatre Version of Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire in Newcastle-upon-Tyne Authors: Duˇska Radosavljevic
It has been estimated that an overwhelming percentage of Welsh films and television dramas are intentionally based upon other literary sources.
This overwhelming dependence upon literary adaptation is primarily from important Welsh literary or cultural sources.
This suggests an attempt to ‘recall and recollect’ and to re-‘write the nation’, after a period of suppressed or neglected representations of Welsh-ness.
While Dave Berry’s book and other studies have attributed this Welsh dependence upon literary adaptation as ‘laziness’ (Berry 1994: 234), we see it as being related to issues of post-colonial ‘re-telling’ of a national story, or more related to the economics of production.
For example, Stephen Bayly directed Joni Jones (1982) as a well-received television series for S4C, an adaptation based upon the well-known children’s stories by R. Garallt Jones entitled Gwared y Gwirion or ‘Redemption of the Innocents’.
It is often the case in Wales, that directors will create a series which is actually suited to be converted into a feature film at a later date, should the funding and political will be present to effect the re-formatting.
Additionally, one of Wales's most famous sons is Andrew Davies, who is known around the world as the 'Prince of Adaptation'.
Andrew Wynford Davies (born September 20, 1936 in Rhiwbina, Cardiff, Wales) is a British screenwriter.
He is the creator of the children's Marmalade Atkins television series and A Very Peculiar Practice, and is also well known for his adaptations of classic works of literature, including the 1995 television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle and the 1998 adaptation of Vanity Fair.
Literary and stage adaptations have added clout with film production investors, who assume that a successful novel or stage play will naturally make a successful film.
Some screenwriters have been known to 'invent' a novel AFTER writing a film script, for purposes of marketing the film, and for raising venture capital.
In small nations, broadcasting drama department Commissioning Editors often opt for an adaptation. This satisfies several remits: nationalistic and cultural agendas are fulfilled, while it's assumed that an established audience exists for the new film or TV series.
My favorite book on film and literature in general is Tom Corrigan's 'Film & Literature' (1999, Prentic Hall Inc / Simon & Schuster).
Here's a pleasant Youtube tribute to Colin Firth in Pride & Prejudice:
'Adaptation: Studying Film and Literature' (Paperback) by John Desmond (Author), Peter Hawkes (Author) is concise and readable new text for courses in Film Adaptation or Film and Literature introduces students to the art of adapting works of literature for film.
'Adaptation' describes the interwoven histories of literature and film, presents key analytical approaches to adaptation, and provides an in-depth overview of adaptations of novels, short stories, plays, nonfiction, and animation.
The book concludes with an analysis of why adaptations sometimes fail.
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
Artes Mundi: Celebrating Art in Cardiff Start Date : Tuesday 11th December End Date : Tuesday 11th December
The Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries is organising an event as part of the Artes Mundi Advance – Aspects of Humanity series.
The Artes Mundi 2 Prize winner Eija-Liisa Ahtila will be back in Cardiff to talk about her work at the National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park in Cardiff on Tuesday 11th December 2007 at 7.15pm. For further details please download the following leaflet:
Location Tuesday 11th December 2007 at 7.15pm at the National Museum Cardiff.
Contact Details: If you would like to attend please contact Naomi Wells on 01443 668523 or email njwells@glam.ac.uk by Friday 7th December 2007 so that we can reserve seats for you.
About Artes Mundi:
Artes Mundi supports and celebrates international contemporary art.
Our aim is to recognise exciting emerging artists from around the world whose work comments on the human condition and humanity from different cultural perspectives, and present this to a wide audience.
Every two years our programme culminates in the major Artes Mundi Exhibition in Cardiff, Wales and the awarding of the prestigious Artes Mundi Prize.
This is accompanied by visiting artist presentations, activities with schools and communities and a conference.
Since the early 1990’s Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s films and still photographs have told stories of human relationships and the elementary emotions that underlie these relationships: love, anger, jealousy, sexuality and vulnerability.
Ahtila describes her films as “human dramas.” Her fictional narratives are acted out by actors and actresses and emerge from interviews and extensive research, as well as her own observation and memory.
The Present - The Monique Zajfen Collection
[Above this video -- in English and Dutch: Onder de naam The Monique Zajfen Collection werkt het Stedelijk in samenwerking met The Broere Charitable Foundation aan een collectie van hedendaagse kunst, die in langdurig bruikleen van het museum zal komen. De werken drukken ditmaal, in uiteenlopende disciplines, diverse aspecten van la condition humaine uit en stellen de menselijke figuur centraal. Kunstenaars: Marlene Dumas, Thomas Schütte, Neo Rauch, Wilhelm Sasnal, Mike Kelley, Pawel Althamer, Paul Graham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Lisa Yuskavage en George Condo. ]
Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s films take full advantage of the gallery space, often showing on multiple screens or within complex installations.
This allows her stories to unfold simultaneously both in time and space, creating a multilayered experience that engages the viewer physically.
Eija-Liisa Ahtila was born in Hämeenlinna, Finland in 1959; she lives and works in Helsinki, having completed her studies in cinema in California and London.
This is to invite you to a celebration of recent publications by members of the History Division in HASS, University of Glamorgan.
Please join us at Blackwells bookshop on campus on Tuesday, 4 December 2007 at 5 p.m. for wine and light refreshments.
Titles include:
Witchcraft, gender and society in early modern Germany (Brill) by Jonathan Durrant
Baltic iron in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century (Brill) by Chris Evans and Göran Rydén
Debating the revolution: Britain in the 1790s (IB Tauris) by Chris Evans
Brittany 1750-1950: the invisible nation (University of Wales Press) by Sharif Gemie
Galicia: a concise history (University of Wales Press) by Sharif Gemie
The other Germany: perceptions and influences in British-East German relations, 1945-1990 (Wißner) edited by Norry LaPorte and Stefan Berger
The very salt of life: Welsh women’s political writings from Chartism to suffrage (Honno) edited by Ursula Masson and Jane Aaron
A woman’s work is never done (Honno) edited by Ursula Masson
Sport: an anthology (Parthian Press) edited by Gareth Williams
RSVP to Dr Norry LaPorte ([nlaporte[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk])
Descriptions and reviews of recent books by University of Glamorgan scholars include:
Sharif Gemie, Galicia: a concise history (University of Wales Press, 2006) Sharif Gemie’s innovative study provides an introduction to the landmarks of Galician history, from pre-history to the present.
Clearly written and easily understandable, it alerts the reader to some of the controversies and debates linked to Galicia’s development, and points out the connections between Galicia and Spain, Europe and the Atlantic world.
The study concentrates mainly on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and analyses issues such as the strengths and weaknesses of Galician nationalism, the status of Galego (the Galician language), Galicia during the Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship, and the rise and fall of the Fraga and the conservative Partido Popular in Galicia after 1981.
Elizabeth Andrews, A Woman’s Work is Never Done and other writings, edited and introduced by Ursula Masson (Honno, 2006)
The autobiography of Andrews (1882–1960), a prominent Labour activist in South Wales during the party’s ‘heroic age’, is reprinted with a scholarly introduction by Ursula Masson and a foreword by Glenys Kinnock MEP.
Chris Evans, Debating the revolution: Britain in the 1790s (I.B. Tauris, 2006)
‘A wonderful book: authoritative, informative and full of intriguing interpretations and interesting perspectives. A historiographical tour de force’. Professor Stefan Berger, University of Manchester.
Chris Evans and Göran Rydén (eds), The industrial revolution in iron: the impact of British coal technology in nineteenth-century Europe (Ashgate, 2005)
“Chris Evans’s introductory chapter is a masterful summary of British technology and the historiography of nineteenth-century iron . . .
This book makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of technology transfer and the global modernization of the iron industry.
It gives Anglophone readers access to literatures that have until now been unknown to many of us.” Technology and Culture, July 2006.
Ursula Masson (ed.), Women’s rights and ‘womanly duties’: the Aberdare Women’s Liberal Association 1891–1910 (South Wales Record Society, 2005)
The minutes of of the Aberdare WLA, which had over 500 members at its peak, shed light on a rich period in the history of women’s political activity, when women campaigned on issues dear to the Liberal Party such as Home Rule for Ireland, Welsh Church disestablishment, temperance and reform of the House of Lords, but also on many aspects of women’s fight for equality in all walks of life.
Stefan Berger, Andy Croll and Norman LaPorte (eds), Towards a comparative history of coalfield societies (Ashgate, 2005)
A selection of papers from the international conference on coalfields and their peoples organised by the Labour History Society and hosted by the University of Glamorgan in 2002.
Stefan Berger and Norry LaPorte, The other Germany: perceptions and influences in British – East German relations, 1945–1990 (Wißner, 2005)
Britain did not recognise the German Democratic Republic until 1973, but throughout the forty years of the GDR‘s existence there were significant political and cultural exchanges between the two.
This path-breaking book explores the cold war relationship between the ‘friendly enemies’.
Norman LaPorte, The German Communist Party in Saxony, 1924–1933: factionalism, fratricide and political failure (Peter Lang, 2003)
”...contributes new and important material to the major debates on the history of German Communism during the Weimar Republic.” Central European History, 2006.
”...essential reading for all scholars of German communism… LaPorte offers a cogent analysis of the historiographical questions regarding the KPD.” H-German, June 2005.
For additional info please contact Dr. Mark Leslie Woods at mwoods[at]glam.ac.uk
