Companion to Steven Spielberg

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).

• Notes on Contributors xAcknowledgements xviiFilm and Television Programs: Steven Spielberg (chronological) xviii1 Introduction 1Nigel MorrisPart One Industry and Agency 252 Spielberg as Director, Producer, and Movie Mogul 27Thomas Schatz3 Producing the Spielberg “Brand” 45James RussellPart Two Narration and Style 594 Magisterial Juvenilia: Amblin’ and Spielberg’s Early Television Work 61Nigel Morris5 Finding His Voice: Experimentation and Innovation in Duel, The Sugarland Express, and 1941 103James Kendrick6 Creating a Cliff hanger: Narration in The Lost World: Jurassic Park 122Warren Buckland7 Steven Spielberg and the Rhetoric of an Ending 137Michael Walker8 The Spielberg Gesture: Performance and Intensified Continuity 159Steven RybinPart Three Collaborations and Intertexts 1739 Spielberg–Williams: Symphonic Cinema 175Jack Sullivan10 Spielberg and Kubrick 195Peter Krämer11 Spielberg and Adaptation 212I.Q. Hunter12 “A very cruel death of innocence”: Notes Toward an Appreciation of Spielberg’s Film of Empire of the Sun 227Neil SinyardPart Four Themes and Variations 24113 “Who am I, David?”: Motherhood in Spielberg’s Dramas of Family Dysfunction 243Linda Ruth Williams14 Close Encounters of the Paternal Kind: Spielberg’s Fatherhoods 258Murray Pomerance15 Spielberg and Rockwell: Realism and the Liberal Imagination 276Frederick Wasser16 Too Brave for Foolish Pride: Violence in the Films of Steven Spielberg 291Stephen PrincePart Five Spielberg, History, and Identity 30517 Morality Tales? Visions of the Past in Spielberg’s History Plays 307Sarah Barrow18 “Britain’s Secret Schindler”: The Impact of Schindler’s List on British Media Perceptions of Civilian Heroes 320Erin Bell19 The (M)orality of Murder: Jews, Food, and Steven Spielberg’s Munich 336Nathan Abrams and Gerwyn Owen20 You Must Remember This: History as Film/Film as History 353Lester D. Friedman21 Violence and Memory in Spielberg’s Lincoln 374Robert Burgoyne and John TraftonPart Six Spielberg in the Digital Age 38722 The Spielberg Effects 389Dan North23 Spielberg and Video Games (1982 to 2010) 410Grethe MitchellPart Seven Reception 43324 Sharks, Aliens, and Nazis: The Crisis of Film Criticism and the Rise of Steven Spielberg 435Raymond J. Haberski, Jr.25 Spielberg, Fandom, and the Popular Appeal of His Blockbuster Movies 452Lincoln Geraghty26 Steven Spielberg and the Rise of the Celebrity Film Director 466Kirsty Fairclough and Andy WillisIndex of Film and Television Programs 479Index 488