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Item Metadata only Authorship, Commerce and Harry Potter(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) Russell, J.Item Metadata only Debts, disasters and mega musicals: The decline of the studio system(London: McGraw-Hill, 2006) Russell, J.Item Metadata only Evangelical audiences and "Hollywood" film: Promoting Fireproof (2008).(Cambridge University Press, 2010-02) Russell, J.Item Metadata only Exhilaration and Enlightenment in the Biblical Bestseller: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ(Bloomsbury Academic, 2012) Russell, J.Item Metadata only Foundation Myths: DreamWorks SKG, The Prince of Egypt (1998) and the Historical Epic Film(Routledge, 1998) Russell, J.Item Metadata only The historical epic and contemporary Hollywood: From Dances with Wolves to Gladiator(London and New York: Continuum, 2007) Russell, J.Item Metadata only Hollywood and the Baby Boom: A Social History(Bloomsbury Academic, 2017-12-27) Russell, J.; Whalley, JimBetween 1946 and 1964 seventy-five million babies were born, dwarfing the generations that preceded and succeeded them. At each stage of its life-cycle, the baby boom's great size has dictated the terms of national policy and public debate. While aspects of this history are well-documented, the relationship between the baby boom and Hollywood has never been explored. And yet, for almost 40 years, baby boomers made up the majority of Hollywood's audience, and since the 1970s, boomers have dominated movie production. Hollywood and the Baby Boom weaves together interviews with leading filmmakers, archival research and the memories of hundreds of ordinary filmgoers to tell the full story of Hollywood's relationship with the boomers for the first time. The authors demonstrate the profound influence of the boomers on the ways that movies were made, seen and understood since the 1950s. The result is a compelling new account that draws upon an unprecedented range of sources, and offers new insights into the history of American movies.Item Embargo Hollywood Blockbusters and UK Production Today(Routledge, 2016) Russell, J.This piece asks how and why overseas investment dominates UK film production. I start by looking at the history of Hollywood’s investment in UK production, and move on to focus on tax relief, infrastructure and content. Rather than rehearsing concerns about the threat of “Americanization,” I focus on the impact of overseas production activities on UK-based production.Item Metadata only In Hollywood, but not of Hollywood: independent Christian filmmaking.(Routledge, 2013) Russell, J.Item Metadata only A most historic period of change: The Western, the epic and Dances With Wolves(McFarland, 2008) Russell, J.Item Metadata only Narnia as a Site of National Struggle: Marketing, Christianity and National Purpose in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(University of Texas, 2009) Russell, J.Item Embargo Producing the Spielberg Brand(Blackwell, 2016) Russell, J.This chapter looks at the manufacture of Spielberg’s brand, and the limits of its usage. Spielberg’s directorial work is well known, but Spielberg’s identity has also been established in other ways, and I focus particularly on his work as a producer. At the time of writing, Spielberg had produced (or executive produced) 148 movies and television series across a range of genres that takes in high budget blockbusters and low budget documentaries, with many more to come. In these texts, Spielberg’s status as branded entity is explicit. His name is used as a marker of cinematic quality, to promote the films in question as “Spielbergian” experiences, or to suggest some kind of thematic concordance with Spielberg’s directorial work. In each case, Spielberg’s name confers a kind of “value” on the production in question. Throughout the first half of the chapter I seek to outline the nature of his brand, and I focus on his early work as a producer of high profile, family-oriented productions. In the second half I look in greater detail at Spielberg’s later career as a more serious filmmaker, focusing on his role as a public figure following the release of Schindler’s List in 1993. I conclude by examining some of the Holocaust documentaries he has produced since the 1990s.Item Metadata only Review of Steve Vineberg, High Comedy in American Movie(University of Nottingham, 2007) Russell, J.