A companion to Steven Spielberg

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Author:

Morris, Nigel, 1955- editor.

ISBN:

9781118726808

9781118726815

9781118726723

9781118726747

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Series:

Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors ; 16

Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors.

Contents:

Introduction / Nigel Morris -- Industry and Agency. Spielberg as Director, Producer, and Movie Mogul / Thomas Schatz -- Producing the Spielberg "brand" / James Russell -- Narration and style. Magisterial juvenilia: Amblin' and Spielberg's early television work / Nigel Morris -- Finding his voice: experimentation and innovation in Duel, The sugarland express, and 1941 / James Kendrick -- Creating a cliffhanger: narration in the lost world: Jurassic Park / Warren Buckland -- Steven Spielberg and the rhetoric of an ending / Michael Walker -- The Spielberg gesture: performance and intensified continuity / Steven Rybin -- Collaborations and intertexts. Spielberg-Williams: symphonic cinema / Jack Sullivan -- Spielberg and Kubrick / Peter Kramer -- Spielberg and adaptation / I.Q. Hunter -- "A very brutal end of innocence": notes towards an appreciation of Spielberg's film of Empire of the sun / Neil Sinyard -- Themes and variations. "Who am I, David?": motherhood in Spielberg's dramas of family dysfunction / Linda Ruth Williams -- Close encounters of the paternal kind: Spielberg's fatherhoods / Murray Pomerance -- Spielberg and Rockwell: realism and the liberal imagination / Frederick Wasser -- Too brave for foolish pride: violence in the films of Steven Spielberg / Stephen Prince -- Spielberg, history and identity. Morality tales? visions of the past in Spielberg's history plays / Sarah Barrow -- "Britain's secret Schindler": the impact of Schindler's list on British media perceptions of civilian heroes / Erin Bell -- The (m)orality of murder: Jews, food, and Steven Spielberg's Munich / Nathan Abrams and Gerwyn Owen -- You must remember this: history as film/film as history / Lester D. Friedman -- Violence and memory in Spielberg's Lincoln / Robert Burgoyne and John Trafton -- Spielberg in the digital age. The Spielberg effects / Dan North -- Spielberg and videogames (1982-2010) / Grethe Mitchell -- Reception. Sharks, aliens and Nazis: the crisis of film criticism and the rise of Steven Spielberg / Raymond J. Haberski, Jr -- Spielberg, fandom and the popular appeal of his blockbuster movies / Lincoln Geraghty -- Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director / Kirsty Fairclough and Andy Willis.

Abstract:

A Companion to Steven Spielberg provides an authoritative collection of essays exploring the achievements and legacy of one of the most influential film directors of the modern era. [This book] offers comprehensive coverage of Spielbergs directorial output, from early works including Duel, The Sugarland Express, and Jaws, to recent films; Explores Spielbergs contribution to the development of visual effects and computer games, as well as the critical and popular reception of his films; Topics include in-depth analyses of Spielbergs themes, style, and filming techniques; commercial and cultural significance of the Spielberg brand and his parallel career as a producer; and collaborative projects with artists and composers; Brings together an international team of renowned scholars and emergent voices, balancing multiple perspectives and critical approaches; Creates a timely and illuminating resource which acknowledges the ambiguity and complexity of Spielbergs work, and reflects its increasing importance to film scholarship.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Personal Subject:

Spielberg, Steven, 1946--Criticism and interpretation.

Spielberg, Steven, 1946--Critique et interprétation.

Spielberg, Steven, 1946-

Subject Term:

PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.

Film & Video.

PERFORMING ARTS.

Genre:

Electronic books.