Fairclough, K 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1773-5826 and Willis, ATJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9428-4643
2017,
'Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director'
, in:
A Companion to Steven Spielberg
, Wiley, pp. 466-478.
Abstract
This chapter looks at Steven Spielberg's career at different stages, considering how it can be read as emblematic of the rise of what might be termed the celebrity director. By the early 1970s, when a new young generation of directors found their way to Hollywood and established their potential, American cinema had become the focus of a great deal of critical writing and its artistic and aesthetic innovation and merit were becoming more widely accepted. Spielberg's film Jaws is often credited as one of the productions that marked the return to traditional Hollywood filmmaking and the studios’ reconnecting with audiences. It also manifested the reassertion of Hollywood's marketing power. By the mid‐1980s Spielberg had become so much of a marketable product that he now challenged the already traditional notion that the director was the auteur of a film.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Editors: | Morris, N |
| Themes: | Media, Digital Technology and the Creative Economy |
| Schools: | Schools > School of Arts & Media > Arts, Media and Communication Research Centre |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| Refereed: | No |
| ISBN: | 9781118726914 (print); 9781118726747 (online) |
| Related URLs: | |
| Funders: | Non funded research |
| Depositing User: | Dr K Fairclough-Isaacs |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jun 2015 17:16 |
| Last Modified: | 20 Jan 2021 16:00 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/35342 |
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