Are You from Camelot Collection CFP

Arthurian Film / TV / Electronic Games Collection (6/1/12)

The Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages is seeking proposals of 500 words for essays devoted to Arthurian-themed film, television, and/or electronic games. We are particularly interested in approaches that explore issues of transformation and/or diversity in these works.

Please submit proposals and CV to popular.culture.and.the.middle.ages@gmail.com by 6/1/12 and note "Are You From Camelot Proposal" in the subject line.

Completed essays should be between 5000 to 8000 words and submitted to the editors by 12/1/12 or earlier.

http://are-you-from-camelot.blogspot.com/

Are You from Camelot at Kalamazoo

I just posted the details of our Kalamazoo sessions at the main blog. Our film-related session is as follows:

Thursday, 10 May: 7:30 PM

Session 170 (Bernhard 204)

Are You From Camelot? Recent Arthurian Film and Television as Innovators of the Arthurian Tradition and Their Impact (A Roundtable)

Sponsor: Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Villains of the Matter of Britain; Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Virtual Society for the Study of Popular Culture and the Middle Ages

Presider: Charlotte A. T. Wulf, Stevenson Univ.

Merlin: Magician, Man, and Manipulator in Starz’s Camelot (2011)

Caroline Womack, Univ. of Leeds

Morgan, Uther’s Other Child, in BBC1’s Merlin (2008–) and Starz’s Camelot (2011)

Cindy Mediavilla, Univ. of California–Los Angeles

Galahad and Indiana Jones: The Commodification of the Holy Grail in Modern Grail Quests

Schuyler Eastin, San Diego Christian College

Arthurizing the Wife of Bath: The Wife of Bath’s Tale in S4C’s The Canterbury Tales (1999) and BBC’s Canterbury Tales (2003)

Paul Hardwick, Leeds Trinity Univ. College

Respondent: Karolyn Kinane, Plymouth State Univ.