Int. Edgar Allan Poe Conf - Poe in film - Deadline: 2020-06-01

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Of Haunted Houses and Dark Nights of the Soul: Edgar Allan Poe in American Film
Fifth International Edgar Allan Poe Conference
Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston
April 8-11, 2021

Deadline: June 1, 2020
Contact: Dr. Kareem Tayyar - ptayyar@gwc.cccd.edu

From the Universal-produced monster movies of the 1930s and 1940s—which included Bela Lugosi starring in 1935’s The Raven—to the eight-picture, Roger Corman-Vincent Price cycle of low-budget Poe adaptations in the 1960s, Poe’s work has, both directly and indirectly, continued to inspire some of the most thought-provoking and entertaining horror films of the 20th and 21st centuries. This panel seeks papers which deal with movies directly based on Poe’s original work and on those true to the spirit of Poe’s aesthetics, imagery, and artistic ideology.

Please send abstracts to Dr. Kareem Tayyar, Golden West College, at the following email: ptayyar@gwc.cccd.edu