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  • UFO Experience, The: A Scientific Inquiry
    (Hynek),
    1
  • Ulysses
    (Joyce),
    1
  • Unauthorised Biography, The: Steven Spielberg
    (Baxter),
    1
    n
  • Unfinished Journey, The
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Union Bank of California,
    1
  • United Artists (UA),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
  • United Nations,
    1
  • United States:
    • anti-Semitism in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Christian predominance in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • collective distress and anxiety in,
      1
      ;
    • see also
      September 11, 2001, attacks
    • disintegration of family in,
      1
    • distrust of government in,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Jewish immigrant experience in,
      1
    • 1960s social upheavals in,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • suburban life in,
      1
      ,
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      ,
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      ,
      4
    • WASP culture of,
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  • United States Department of Defense,
    1
  • United States Department of Homeland Security,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
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  • United States Supreme Court,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Universal Studios,
    1
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    4
    ,
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    • DreamWorks negotiations with,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • E.T.
      ride at,
      1
    • Jurassic Park: The Ride
      at,
      1
      n
      ,
      2
    • MCA’s purchase of,
      1
    • Spielberg’s first directing contract with,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Spielberg’s first visit to,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Spielberg’s headquarters at,
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      ,
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    • Spielberg’s unofficial Hollywood apprenticeship at,
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    • studio system and conservative values of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Tour,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
  • Universal Television,
    1
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    2
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    ,
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    • pioneering made-for-TV films of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Spielberg’s professional apprenticeship at,
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      n
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  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • University of Lincoln (UK),
    1
  • University of Southern California (USC),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education at,
      1
  • Up in the Air
    ,
    1
  • Urban Cowboy
    ,
    1
  • USA Patriot Act,
    1
  • Used Cars
    ,
    1
  • Uses of Enchantment, The
    (Bettelheim),
    1
  • Vadim, Roger,
    1
    n
  • Vane, Richard “Dick,”
    1
  • Van Gogh, Vincent,
    1
  • Vanneman, Alan,
    1
  • Van Sickle, Dale,
    1
    n
  • Variety
    ,
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    n
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  • Veitch, John,
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  • Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team
    (Jonas),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Venice Film Festival,
    1
  • Ventura, Lino,
    1
  • Ventura, Michael,
    1
  • Verne, Jules,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Viacom,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Victor, Mark,
    1
  • Vidal, Gore,
    1
  • Vietnam War,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
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    ,
    5
  • Village of the Damned
    ,
    1
  • Village Voice, The
    ,
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  • Vinton, Bobby,
    1
  • Vogel, David E.,
    1
  • Voices
    , 295
  • Voight, Jon,
    1
  • von Däniken, Erich,
    1
  • Von Sydow, Max,
    1
  • Wade, Bill,
    1
  • Wagon Train
    ,
    1
  • Walas, Chris,
    1
  • Walken, Christopher,
    1
  • Walker, Alice,
    1
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  • Wallace, Dee,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Wallace & Ladmo
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Wallenberg, Raoul,
    1
  • Wall Street Journal, The
    ,
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    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
  • Walnut Hills High School,
    1
  • Walsh, Raoul,
    1
  • Walt Disney Company/Walt Disney Studios,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
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    ,
    6
    ,
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    ,
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  • Walt Disney World,
    1
  • Wanger, Walter,
    1
  • Ward, David,
    1
  • Warga, Wayne,
    1
  • War Horse
    (film project),
    1
  • War Horse
    (Morpurgo),
    1
  • War Horse
    (Stafford),
    1
  • War Lord, The
    ,
    1
  • War of 1812,
    1
  • War of the Worlds
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • box-office success,
      1
    • critical reservations about,
      1
      ,
      2
    • extreme violence in,
      1
    • family themes in,
      1
    • H. G. Wells source material for,
      1
    • relation to contemporary political issues,
      1
      ,
      2
    • relation to earlier adaptations,
      1
    • Spielberg’s evolving view of aliens and,
      1
    • technical virtuosity of,
      1
  • “War of the Worlds, The” (1938 radio broadcast,
    The Mercury Theatre on the Air)
    ,
    1
    War of the Worlds, The
    (1953 film),
    2
  • War of the Worlds, The
    (Wells),
    1
  • “War on Terror,”
    1
  • Warner, Frank,
    1
  • Warner Bros.,
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  • Warner Bros. TV,
    1
  • Warner Communications Inc. (WCI),
    1
  • Warner-Seven Arts,
    1
  • Washington, George,
    1
  • Washington Post
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Wasserman, Lew,
    1
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  • Watanabe, Ken,
    1
  • Watergate scandal,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Watson, Ian,
    1
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    2
    ,
    3
  • Wayne, John,
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  • Weaver, Dennis,
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  • Webb, Frank,
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    2
  • Webb, Jack,
    1
  • Weber, Betty,
    1
  • Weber, Charles,
    1
  • Welles, Orson,
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  • Wells, Frank,
    1
  • Wells Fargo,
    1
  • Wells, H. G.,
    1
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    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Wells, Simon,
    1
  • We’re Back!: A Dinosaur’s Story
    ,
    1
    n
  • Wesleyan University,
    1
  • West, Nathanael,
    1
  • Westworld
    ,
    1
  • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
  • “When You Wish Upon a Star,”
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Whitaker, Johnny,
    1
  • White, Armond,
    1
    ,
    2
  • White Lightning
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
    ,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    (Albee),
    1
  • Wielage, Marc,
    1
  • Wiesel, Elie,
    1
  • Wieseltier, Leon,
    1
  • Wild Child, The
    ,
    1
  • Wild One, The
    ,
    1
  • Wilde, Oscar,
    1
  • Wilder, Billy,
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  • Will, George F.,
    1
  • Williams, Anson,
    1
  • Williams, JoBeth,
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  • Williams, John,
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  • Williams, Robin,
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  • Williams, Sherry Missner,
    1
  • Windy City
    ,
    1
  • Winfrey, Oprah,
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  • Winger, Debra,
    1
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    2
  • Wingo, Dorcey,
    1
  • Wings
    (TV),
    1
  • Winston, Stan,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
    (Woodward),
    1
  • Wise, Isaac Mayer,
    1
  • Wise, Robert,
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  • Wizan, Joe,
    1
  • Wizard of Oz, The
    ,
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  • Wolf, Eleanor,
    1
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    2
  • Wonder Woman
    ,
    1
  • Wood, Robin,
    1
  • Wood, Sam,
    1
  • Woods, Tiger,
    1
  • Woodward, Bob,
    1
  • World Council of Synagogues,
    1
  • World Jewish Congress,
    1
  • World of Our Fathers
    (Howe),
    1
  • World Trade Center,
    1
    ,
    2
  • World War I,
    1
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  • World War II,
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  • Worsley, Wallace,
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  • Wright, Edgar,
    1
  • Writers Guild of America,
    1
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  • Wyler, William,
    1
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  • Wylie, Philip,
    1

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