Ellen Wright
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674278 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Wright |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Wright |
| SIGNATURE | WRIGHT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘An intimate glimpse of the societies – hollywood, high, café’
This article examines the career and work of overlooked celebrity photographer Jean Howard, during the 1940s and 1950s, when Hollywood’s studio system and its stars were at the height of their influence. Her photographs of stars at Los Angeles nightspots and exclusive Beverly Hills social events, published in magazines including Life, Look, Vogue, Collier’s, and Harper’s Bazaar, offered audiences and later historians a distinctive view of Hollywo…
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
The Most Famous Outlaw in the Whole USA
This paper examines the star figure, both literally and figuratively, of Jane Russell, a glamorous Hollywood actress, singer, dancer and comedienne who first rose to American public prominence through a promotional censorship scandal surrounding Howard Hughes' 1943 Billy the Kid narrative, The Outlaw. Whilst Russell starred in a raft of Hollywood westerns throughout the course of her long film career, this paper will examine Russell's representat…
Exploring film history by using fandom as a pedagogical tool
An exploration of the terrain of how to engage learners effectively and why that matters. Using fan engagement in the field of film history reveals that encouraging learners to self-identify as fans shifts the power balance, placing the learner in the position of expert, thereby increasing the chances of learner engagement and enabling learners to gain a more nuanced understanding of their field while also making for a more invested, lively, and …
Star products, star capital, fan markets
This paper examines the development of British film stars and fan club culture during the mid to late 1940s, through studio-sanctioned fan or star-produced magazines for the official fan clubs of British actors Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Patricia Roc and Richard Attenborough and the British fan club for American actor Deanna Durbin. These previously unexamined resources are contextualised with contemporaneous newspaper articles, novels, film magaz…
Topical and Oral Therapies for Childhood Atopic Dermatitis and Plaque Psoriasis
Current treatment guidelines are based on clinical experience and expert advice with few treatments officially approved for atopic dermatitis and psoriasis in children
Having Her Cheesecake and Eating It
Bunny Yeager was a pinup model and photographer who appeared on TV and in exploitation films, while creating pinups and “art” nudes for Playboy, coffee-table books, and how-to publications. She is currently experiencing a revival as part of a subcultural vogue for 1950s and 1960s Americana. In her images she was often both subject and photographer, and her self-reflexive pictures engage with issues of authorship, control, and the sexualized gaze.…
Spectacular Bodies
The file attached to this record contains the authors final peer reviewed version of the article. The publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Betty Grable
Betty Grable
Star products, star capital, fan markets
This paper examines the development of British film stars and fan club culture during the mid to late 1940s, through studio-sanctioned fan or star-produced magazines for the official fan clubs of British actors Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Patricia Roc and Richard Attenborough and the British fan club for American actor Deanna Durbin. These previously unexamined resources are contextualised with contemporaneous newspaper articles, novels, film magaz…
Betty Grable
Spectacular Bodies
The file attached to this record contains the authors final peer reviewed version of the article. The publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link
Having Her Cheesecake and Eating It
Bunny Yeager was a pinup model and photographer who appeared on TV and in exploitation films, while creating pinups and “art” nudes for Playboy, coffee-table books, and how-to publications. She is currently experiencing a revival as part of a subcultural vogue for 1950s and 1960s Americana. In her images she was often both subject and photographer, and her self-reflexive pictures engage with issues of authorship, control, and the sexualized gaze.…
Topical and Oral Therapies for Childhood Atopic Dermatitis and Plaque Psoriasis
Current treatment guidelines are based on clinical experience and expert advice with few treatments officially approved for atopic dermatitis and psoriasis in children
Exploring film history by using fandom as a pedagogical tool
An exploration of the terrain of how to engage learners effectively and why that matters. Using fan engagement in the field of film history reveals that encouraging learners to self-identify as fans shifts the power balance, placing the learner in the position of expert, thereby increasing the chances of learner engagement and enabling learners to gain a more nuanced understanding of their field while also making for a more invested, lively, and …
Star products, star capital, fan markets
This paper examines the development of British film stars and fan club culture during the mid to late 1940s, through studio-sanctioned fan or star-produced magazines for the official fan clubs of British actors Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Patricia Roc and Richard Attenborough and the British fan club for American actor Deanna Durbin. These previously unexamined resources are contextualised with contemporaneous newspaper articles, novels, film magaz…
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
The Most Famous Outlaw in the Whole USA
This paper examines the star figure, both literally and figuratively, of Jane Russell, a glamorous Hollywood actress, singer, dancer and comedienne who first rose to American public prominence through a promotional censorship scandal surrounding Howard Hughes' 1943 Billy the Kid narrative, The Outlaw. Whilst Russell starred in a raft of Hollywood westerns throughout the course of her long film career, this paper will examine Russell's representat…
‘An intimate glimpse of the societies – hollywood, high, café’
This article examines the career and work of overlooked celebrity photographer Jean Howard, during the 1940s and 1950s, when Hollywood’s studio system and its stars were at the height of their influence. Her photographs of stars at Los Angeles nightspots and exclusive Beverly Hills social events, published in magazines including Life, Look, Vogue, Collier’s, and Harper’s Bazaar, offered audiences and later historians a distinctive view of Hollywo…
Art (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)