Screening Stephen King Symposium
School of Film, Media and Communication, University of Portsmouth
May 1, 2020
With dozens of publications – including novels, novellas, short story
anthologies and non-fiction works – to his name, Stephen King has been an
acknowledged publishing force for more than four decades. King’s works soon
proved ripe for adaptation for both cinema and television. Ranging from Brian
De Palma’s Carrie (1976) to IT: Chapter 2 (2019), and from the Salem’s Lot
(1979) CBS miniseries to streaming series such as Mr Mercedes (2017–2019) and
Castle Rock (2018–), King has been a regular fixture on screens large and small
throughout his career. Linked indelibly to tales of terror and suspense, with a
keen eye for life’s deepest mysteries and an uncanny knack for pinpointing
sources of dread, King has come to symbolise the horror genre.
May 2020 marks forty years since the US cinematic release of Stanley
Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), an adaptation famously deplored by King himself
though lauded by critics and subsequently held up as a landmark horror film.
The recent release of Doctor Sleep (2019), a sequel to both King’s bestselling
novel and Kubrick’s film, has helped renew interest in a tale of significance
both to King’s body of work and to the horror genre as a whole. With this
context in mind, the upcoming symposium seeks to bring together scholars with
an interest in King’s work on the screen.
Papers are welcome on, though not limited to, the following topics:
- retrospectives of 40 years of The Shining
- analyses of particular films/shows
- debates pertaining to authorship
- King’s role as author/involvement in screen projects
- adaptations, remakes and reimaginings
- evolving media formats
- transmedia storytelling/worldbuilding
- genre (e.g. crime drama, mystery, science fiction, thriller)
- Gothic and horror tropes
- issues of representation (e.g. age, childhood, gender, race, sexuality)
Proposals
Please send 250 word abstracts to Rebecca.Janicker@port.ac.uk by
February 14, 2020. Any queries are very welcome at the same email address.
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