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One of Britain's best-known film critic, Mark Kermode, has confirmed that he will give a pre-screening talk at the Spielberg at Sixty International Conference during the evening of Tuesday 20 November. Dr Kermode regularly writes for Sight and Sound magazine and The Observer newspaper and has penned two editions on The Exorcist for the BFI Modern Classics series. He reviews films on Simon Mayo's BBC Radio Five Live show on Friday afternoons, and is also the resident movie critic for BBC2's Culture Show. He is a critic on other branches of the arts for the BBC2 programme Newsnight Review, and appears regularly on BBC News 24. He interviewed Steven Spielberg in 2006 for a Culture Show special that he presented.
Mark Kermode's participation complements an impressive line-up of panellists and four distinguished keynote speakers: Joseph McBride, an internationally known film critic and historian from the United States who has written fifteen books including an acclaimed biography of Steven Spielberg; Linda Ruth Williams, who has written and edited books on D.H. Lawrence and visual culture, on psychoanalytic critical and cultural theory, erotic thrillers and contemporary American cinema, as well as articles for Sight and Sound; Murray Pomerance from Canada, who is an award winning fiction writer as well as a prolific editor and author of wide-ranging academic film books and essays; and Peter Kramer, who has published on topics including early cinema, stars and acting, relationships between film and other media, Hollywood and Europe, and the New Hollywood.
There are still places left on the conference. For full details and information on how to book please visit www.lincoln.ac.uk/conferences
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