Adapting Horror in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions:
January 24, 2022
full name / name of organization:
Joseph J. Darowski and John Darowski
contact email:
monsteradaptations@gmail.com
full cfp accessible from this link: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/11/18/adapting-horror-in-popular-culture
CFP for Adapting Horror in Popular Culture
Deadline for Submissions: Jan. 24, 2023
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Contact Email: monsteradaptations@gmail.com
The editors of Adapting Horror in Popular Culture are seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should address the long-running global appeal of the monstrous in popular culture. Each essay will examine the adaptation of a creature, monster, or source of terror into a new medium.
Adaptations inherently transform an audience’s relationship with the original while presenting a version with contemporary relevance. Topics can include fairy tales, folklore, urban legends, or literary monsters from around the world and their adaptation into film, television, animation, radio/podcast, comic books, graphic novels, webtoons, video games, etc.
Essays should focus on stories featuring issues of adaptation and influence theory, evolving cultural contexts, or formalist aspects of telling existing stories in new mediums. Analysis must apply critical theory to explore the form, function, and/or intersectionality of monsters,
adaptation, and culture.
The proposed volume is intended to be scholarly but accessible in tone and approach. Abstracts explaining the focus and approach of the proposed chapter should be accompanied with a CV.
Topics should be limited in scope, focusing on one monster or text. Topics that compare and contrast different adaptations of the same monster within a single medium (e.g. comparing Bernie Wrightson and Junji Ito’s graphic novel versions of Frankenstien) will also be considered.
Completed essays should be approximately 15-20 double-space pages in MLA format.
Abstracts (100-500 words) and CVs should be submitted by January 24, 2023.
Submissions should be sent to Joseph J. Darowski and John Darowski at adaptingmonsters@gmail.com.
Last updated November 27, 2022
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