A Companion to Steven Spielberg (eBook)

Nigel Morris (Herausgeber)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-72680-8 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Steven Spielberg provides an authoritative collection of essays exploring the achievements and legacy of one of the most influential film directors of the modern era.

• Offers comprehensive coverage of Spielberg's directorial output, from early works including Duel, The Sugarland Express, and Jaws, to recent films
• Explores Spielberg's contribution to the development of visual effects and computer games, as well as the critical and popular reception of his films
• Topics include in-depth analyses of Spielberg's themes, style, and filming techniques; commercial and cultural significance of the Spielberg 'brand' and his parallel career as a producer; and collaborative projects with artists and composers
• Brings together an international team of renowned scholars and emergent voices, balancing multiple perspectives and critical approaches
• Creates a timely and illuminating resource which acknowledges the ambiguity and complexity of Spielberg's work, and reflects its increasing importance to film scholarship  

Nigel Morris is Principal Lecturer in Media, School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln, UK, specializing in film, television, and media, cultural and educational studies. He is the author of The Cinema of Steven Spielberg (2007).

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Notes on Contributors

Nathan Abrams, Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University, has written widely on transatlantic Jewish film, history, politics, and popular culture with specific reference to the United States and the United Kingdom. His current research falls into three key areas: Jews, Jewishness and Judaism in popular culture, 1990 to the present; public intellectuals and American Culture; and European Jewish Diasporas. Recent publications include The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema (2010) and Caledonian Jews: A Study of Seven Small Communities in Scotland (2009).

Sarah Barrow is Head of Lincoln School of Film and Media at the University of Lincoln. Former posts include being one of the first venue‐based film education officers (Cambridge Arts Cinema) and founder of a production company making films with underprivileged young people. Research interests include Latin American cinemas, cinematic representations of political violence and (national) identity/ies, and memory, trauma, and nostalgia in film and photography. Alongside extensive publications on Hispanic cinemas, Dr. Barrow co‐edited 50 Key British Films (2008), contributed to 50 Key American Films (2009), and co‐edited the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Films (2014).

Erin Bell is Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Heritage at the University of Lincoln. After her PhD in early modern religious nonconformity at the University of York she moved to Lincoln as researcher on the interdisciplinary Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project, “Televising History 1995–2010” (2006–2010), led by Professor Ann Gray, and continues to research and teach in both fields. Her most recent book, co‐authored with Ann Gray, is History on Television (2012).

Warren Buckland, Reader in Film Studies, Oxford Brookes University, researches film theory, analyzing key trends in contemporary cinema (Hollywood blockbusters, puzzle films, new sincerity), and data mining world cinema, which combines film studies with computer science. Since holding the first British Academy Post‐Doctoral Fellowship in Film Studies (1994) he has written and edited several books on spectatorship, film semiotics, theory, and contemporary cinema, and is founding editor of the New Review of Film and Television Studies. The short guide Teach Yourself Film Studies has been translated into Vietnamese and Japanese. Directed by Steven Spielberg (2006) supplements standard film theories with information contained in well‐known filmmaking manuals.

Robert Burgoyne is Professor and Director of Research in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews. His work centers on historiography and film, with emphasis on American cinema and national identity. Recent publications include Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History (revised edition, 2010) and The Epic Film in World Culture (2010). He has also published on memory and contemporary American culture; cinephilia in the work of Douglas Gordon and Corey Arcangel; and the imagery of haunting and spectrality in the war film. Narrative theory, Italian cinema, and the impact of digital technologies on film form and theory are also subjects on which Professor Burgoyne has published, and continues to pursue. Much of his recent work investigates the cinematic rewriting of history, and film’s power to illuminate the present by reconceiving dominant fictions that have formed around the past.

Kirsty Fairclough is Senior Lecturer in Media and Performance at the University of Salford. She is the co‐editor of The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop, (with Rob Edgar, Benjamin Halligan, and Nicola Spelman, 2013), The Arena Concert: Music, Media and Mass Entertainment (with Rob Edgar, Benjamin Halligan, and Nicola Spelman, 2016), Music Video: Forms, Aesthetics, Media (with Gina Arnold, Danny Cookney, and Michael Goddard, 2016), and author of the forthcoming Beyoncé: Celebrity, Feminism and Pop Culture.

Lester D. Friedman is Professor of Media and Society at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Current scholarly interests include American cinema from the post‐World War II era to the present, British cinema, American‐Jewish images in the media, medical culture, and British media in the Thatcher era. Among Professor Friedman’s recent publications are Citizen Spielberg (2006), Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism (2006), American Cinema of the 1970s (2006 – part of the “Screen Decades” series that he co‐edits), and Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media (2004). He was an early academic champion of the work of Spielberg’s work, having co‐edited Steven Spielberg Interviews (2000).

Lincoln Geraghty is Reader in Popular Media Cultures in the School of Creative Arts, Film and Media and Director of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research at the University of Portsmouth. He is editorial advisor for the Journal of Popular Culture, Reconstruction, Atlantis, Journal of Fandom Studies, and Journal of Popular Television. He is author of Living with Star Trek: American Culture and the Star Trek Universe (2007) and American Science Fiction Film and Television (2009). Dr. Geraghty has edited collections on Star Trek, science fiction and fantasy television, Smallville, and genre. Currently editor of the online and print Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood (2011 and 2013), his most recent books are Cult Collectors: Nostalgia, Fandom and Collecting Popular Culture (2014) and Popular Media Cultures: Fans, Audiences and Paratexts (2015).

Raymond J. Haberski, Jr. is Professor of History, Director of American Studies, and serves as Publications Coordinator at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. From 2000 to 2013, Haberski was a full‐time, tenured faculty member at Marian University. In 2008–2009 he held the Fulbright Danish Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the Copenhagen Business School. Haberski’s research field is US intellectual history and his books include It’s Only a Movie: Films and Critics in American Culture (2001), Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture (2007), The Miracle Case: Film Censorship and the Supreme Court (2008), God and War: American Civil Religion Since 1945 (2012), and a manuscript he has recently completed for the American Academy of Franciscan History tentatively entitled, Evangelization to the Heart: Franciscan Media in the United States (expected publication date 2016).

I.Q. Hunter, Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, has interests in British cinema, genre, exploitation, science fiction, horror, trash, Hammer, and cult film, and has written widely on adaptation. He co‐edited Science Fiction Across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation (2013) and the six books in Pluto’s Film/Fiction series, from Pulping Fictions (1996) to Retrovisions (2001). His other publications include British Trash Cinema (2013), British Comedy Cinema (co‐editor, 2012), and British Science Fiction Cinema (1999), and he has appeared in a BBC4 documentary, Rex Appeal (2011), on dinosaurs in films.

James Kendrick is an associate professor in the Department of Film & Digital Media at Baylor University. He is the author of three books: Darkness in the Bliss‐Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg (2014), Hollywood Bloodshed: Screen Violence and 1980s American Cinema (2009), and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009). His articles have appeared in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Film Criticism, The Velvet Light Trap, Journal of Film and Video, and Journal of Popular Film and Television. He has also authored numerous book chapters and presented papers at national conferences. He earned a PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University, Bloomington, and also holds a BA in English and an MA in Journalism, both from Baylor University. His primary research interests are the films of Steven Spielberg, post‐classical Hollywood film history, violence in the media, cult and horror films, media censorship and regulation, and cinema and new technologies. In addition to his academic work, he is also the film and video critic for the web site Qnetwork.com (where he has written over 2500 feature‐length reviews).

Peter Krämer is a Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has published more than 60 essays on American film and media history, and on the relationship between Hollywood and Europe, in academic journals and edited collections. He is the author of The General (forthcoming in 2016), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2014), A Clockwork Orange (2011), 2001: A Space Odyssey (2010), and The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars (2005), and the co‐editor of Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives (2015), The Silent Cinema Reader (2004), and Screen Acting (1999).

Grethe Mitchell is an academic, researcher, and practitioner in digital and interactive media. Before academia, she was involved in film and television production and...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.2.2017
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• Sprache: englisch
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• Schlagworte: American auteurs • American Culture • American film • american films • American Icon • Amerikanische Filmkunst • blockbusters • cinema studies • Cultural Studies • Dreamworks • Film • Film animation • Film Directors • Filmforschung • Film History • film icons • film producers • film screenwriters • Film Studies • Film theory • Hollywood • hollywood films • jaws • Kino • Kulturwissenschaften • Movies • new hollywood era • popular culture • Spielberg • Spielberg director • Spielberg producer • Spielberg screenwriter • Spielberg, Steven • video games • Visual Effects
• ISBN-10: 1-118-72680-4 / 1118726804
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-72680-8 / 9781118726808