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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS “Spielberg at Sixty” 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. A selection of papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of The New Review of Film and Television Studies. 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 panels will also be considered. Deadline for proposals: 20 July (international), 1 August (UK) Deadline for completed papers for possible publication: 19 October 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. 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.