FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS SPIELBERG AT 60 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Tuesday 20 - Wednesday 21 November 2007 University of Lincoln, England, UK Keynote speakers: Robert Phillip Kolker (University of Virginia, USA); Peter Kramer, (University of East Anglia, UK); Murray Pomerance (Ryerson University, Canada); Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton, UK) With over two dozen features to his credit and more in preparation, history’s most commercially successful film director continues to attract accolades and fierce criticism in equal measure. During the last year, three major new books have afforded Spielberg’s work a sustained level of academic attention that previously was lacking: Warren Buckland’s Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster, Lester D. Friedman’s Citizen Spielberg and Nigel Morris’s The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light. Now the three authors are combining forces to convene an international conference. Their aim is to bring together scholars to debate the significance of Spielberg’s work – whether in a spirit of celebration, condemnation or non-partisan (albeit positioned) academic enquiry. Proposals (in the form of 250-300 word abstracts in English) for 20-minute presentations are invited on any topic pertaining to Spielberg as a filmmaker. Longer papers will also be considered. Deadline for proposals: 20 July (international), 1 August (UK) Please email your proposal as a Word attachment to [log in to unmask] headed "Spielberg at Sixty." It will be made anonymous before forwarding to the selection committee. A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of The New Review of Film and Television Studies. Further details, including fees and accommodation, will be posted on the University of Lincoln website: www.lincoln.ac.uk under "Events and Conferences" and on a dedicated conference website, "Spielberg at Sixty" Co-convenors: Warren Buckland, Lester D. Friedman, Nigel Morris "Spielberg at Sixty” thanks Wallflower Press for assistance and University of Illinois Press for sponsorship. Warren Buckland Latest book: "Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster" Editor, New Review of Film and Television Studies: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp -----Original Message----- From: SCREEN-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 6.00am Subject: SCREEN-L Digest - 29 Jun 2007 to 1 Jul 2007 (#2007-100) There are 4 messages totalling 206 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Send us your links! 2. looking for a film (2) 3. Screen-L / POISON WOMAN: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:32:50 -0500 From: Miriam Posner <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Send us your links! The Museum of the Moving Image is compiling a list of trustworthy online sources to help students conduct responsible Internet research about film, television, and digital media. We've put our heads together and we're pretty sure we've covered all the well-known research sites: JSTOR, ProQuest, WorldCat, AFI catalog, etc. Now we're interested in more obscure, but still trustworthy, sites. Determining a site's reputability is, of course, more art than science, but we're looking for Web pages that you wouldn't mind your students citing on a research paper. For example, the Museum of Broadcast Communication's online encyclopedia (http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/) is a source students aren't likely to know offhand, but might find helpful. The same goes for the Autry Museum's page on Sergio Leone (http://www.autrynationalcenter.org/leone/) and Virginia Commonwealth University's detailed history of the Grace Street Theater (http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/lee.html). I'd love to hear what you use for online research. It's okay if they're more general sites, as long as they can be used to research film, television, or digital media. Journal aggregators, bibliographies, online exhibits, and stand-alone Web pages are all welcome. Please send them to me directly ([log in to unmask]) and if you're interested, I'll compile a list of your links and post it to the listserv. Thank you! MIRIAM POSNER ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF THE COLLECTION MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE 35 AVE AT 36 ST, ASTORIA, NY 11106 WWW.MOVINGIMAGE.US TEL 718.784.4520 FAX 718.784.3417 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 11:37:39 +0400 From: George Jacob <[log in to unmask]> Subject: looking for a film >Hi Guys & Gals, I am racking my brains to remember the title of a film that was based on true story of a young pilot flying solo on his little Cessna from some Indonesian island to Australia who gets caught in a lighting storm and his navigational aid is rendered useless. He manages to make radio contact with a commercial airliner (a 747 I think) and that older pilot finally guides him to safety by risking his own flight. There's a happy ending of course and it's true! Cheers George Jacob "The mind never thinks without pictures" Aristotle www.moviemedia.tv Films that work for you. [log in to unmask] Cell: 050 625 9504 Off: 04 268 3873 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:25:47 -0500 From: Stacy Lienemann <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Screen-L / POISON WOMAN: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture Dear ListServ Administrator: Please post this to Screen-L. Also, please let me know if you'd like to review the book for your listserv. Thanks! Best wishes, Stacy Lienemann Direct Response and Scholarly Promotions Manager University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 612-627-1934 http://www.upress.umn.edu Who is the =B3poison woman=B2? POISON WOMAN: Figuring Female Transgression in Modern Japanese Culture Christine L. Marran University of Minnesota Press | 264 pages | 2007 ISBN 978-0-8166-4726-2 | hardcover | $67.50 ISBN 978-0-8166-4727-9 | paperback | $22.50 Based on the lives and crimes of no less than twenty real women, dokufu (poison women) narratives emerged as a powerful presence in Japan during th= e 1870s. In Poison Woman, Christine L. Marran investigates this powerful icon= , its shifting meanings, and its influence on defining women's sexuality and place in Japan. =B3Poison Woman is a remarkable project, original and important. Marran's wor= k makes essential reading for anyone interested in the transformations of sexuality, gender, and literature in modern Japan.=B2 =8BMichael K. Bourdaghs =B3Poison Woman marks a new and exciting kind of scholarship in Japanese literary and feminist studies. There is simply nothing like it.=B2 =8BJan Bardsley For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book=B9s webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/marran_poison.html Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press: http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 08:40:58 -0500 From: "Sewell, Matthew" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: looking for a film Hi George, I'm guessing this is Mercy Mission (1993)? See http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0107556/. Matthew Sewell Assistant Professor of English Minnesota State University, Mankato 230 Armstrong Hall Mankato, MN 56001 [log in to unmask] ________________________________ From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List on behalf of George Jacob Sent: Sat 6/30/2007 2:37 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [SCREEN-L] looking for a film >Hi Guys & Gals, I am racking my brains to remember the title of a film that was based on true story of a young pilot flying solo on his little Cessna from some Indonesian island to Australia who gets caught in a lighting storm and his navigational aid is rendered useless. He manages to make radio contact with a commercial airliner (a 747 I think) and that older pilot finally guides him to safety by risking his own flight. There's a happy ending of course and it's true! Cheers George Jacob "The mind never thinks without pictures" Aristotle www.moviemedia.tv Films that work for you. 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