[Commlist] Call for Papers: ReFocus: The Films of Don Siegel

Call for Papers

/ReFocus: The Films of Don Siegel/**

Don Siegel is the rare Hollywood director who worked successfully in 
both classic Hollywood of the 1930s and 40s and, after the studio system 
reinvention, New Hollywood into the 1980s. From his start in classic 
Hollywood as a montage director on /Casablanca/, through genre work in 
film noir, science fiction, westerns, and war films, Siegel acted as 
director, and often producer, to generate a versatile collection of 
iconic films including /Invasion of the Body Snatchers/, the remake of 
/The Killers/, /Dirty Harry/, /Charley Varrick/, and /Escape from 
Alcatraz/. Yet, for all his successes, in particular in the five films 
he made with Clint Eastwood, there is a near absence of critical writing 
on Siegel

As this volume will be the first comprehensive study in Don Siegel’s 
work we seek to contextualize, problematize and theorize his entire 
canon.We welcome essays from a variety of theoretical, historical, and 
methodological approaches, and are especially interested in essays that 
discuss Siegel’s work from a feminist and/or critical race perspective 
while situating the relevance of his film work in the contemporary 
moment. Topics may include, but are not limited to, a single film, group 
of films, his work with Clint Eastwood, his direction on John Wayne’s 
last film /The Shootist/, themes and topics that pervade his work, 
and/or his television directing or influence, the critical and 
commercial reception of his films especially during the 1970s.

We are currently soliciting abstracts of approximately 350 words for 
essays to be included in a book-length anthology on Don Siegel’s cinema, 
including his work in television, to appear in 2024./The Films of Don 
Siegel /will be a scholarly volume published in the University of 
Edinburgh’s /ReFocus/ series, examining American film directors. Series 
editors are Robert Singer, Gary D. Rhodes, and Frances Smith. /ReFocus/ 
features a series of contemporary methodological and theoretical 
approaches to the interdisciplinary analyses and interpretations of the 
work of these American directors, from the once-famous to the ignored, 
in direct relationship to American culture --its myths, values, and 
historical precepts.

Essays accepted and included in the refereed anthology should be 
approximately 6,000 to 8,000 words and referenced in Chicago endnote style.

Include a link to the series: 
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-refocus-the-international-directors-series 
<https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-refocus-the-international-directors-series>

Please send a 350-word proposal and a short bio to both editors: Doctor 
Jamie Popowich ((jamie.popowich /at/ ntu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(jamie.popowich /at/ ntu.ac.uk)>) & Aaron Tucker ((artucker /at/ yorku.ca) 
<mailto:(artucker /at/ yorku.ca)>). We are accepting abstracts until April 1^st 
2023.

_About the editors_

Jamie Popowich is a writer and filmmaker. His next book, /Punch Lines/ 
(Potential Books, 2023) examines the thin line between jokes and tears. 
He is currently working on a book about the politics of prank comedy. He 
holds a doctorate from the University of Hertfordshire and teaches at 
the University of Surrey.

Aaron Tucker is the author of two film studies monographs, /Interfacing 
with the Internet/ (2014) and /Virtual Weaponry/ (2017), both with 
Palgrave Macmillan. His current research utilizes film theory to analyze 
and critique the cinema of facial recognition technologies. In addition, 
he is a poet and novelist, whose second novel, /Soldiers, Hunters, Not 
Cowboys/, will be published by Coach House Books in Spring 2023.


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