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The Films of Steven Spielberg
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2002
Summary
Steven Spielberg has fashioned an enviable career as a writer, producer, and director of American motion pictures, winning Academy Awards for Best Direction (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List), and for Best Film (Schindler's List). With David Geffen and Jeffrey Katzenberg he founded Dreamworks SKG, already one of the most productive and respected studios in Hollywood. Despite Spielberg's notable successes, however, his films have not avoided controversy. The Films of Steven Spielberg provides for the first time a collection of critical writings by professional film critics about the director and his films, bringing together many articles and reviews scattered in often inaccessible specialist publications and professional journals. The opinions vary from complimentary to critical, but they definitely provide a well-rounded view of the films and the director. Twelve of Spielberg's major box office hits, including Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial, The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, are discussed in essays that vary in complexity ranging from the heavily theoretical to the more general. This collection of essays, compiled for both film students and professionals in the film industry, attests to the influence of Spielberg and the films that have earned him a significant place in the history of cinema as one of America's most innovative and culturally important filmmakers.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-4348-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-7282-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
287
Product type
Edited Book
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Introduction No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chronology No access
Archetypal Landscapes and Jaws Jonathan Lemkin No access
Integrating Ideology and Archetype in Rhetorical Criticism, Part II: A Case Study of Jaws Thomas S. Frentz and Janice Hocker Rushing No access
Language and the Music of the Spheres: Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind Charlene Engel No access
Raiders of the Lost Archetype: The Quest and the Shadow Lane Roth No access
The Look Back in E.T. Ilsa J. Bick No access
The Color Purple as Everybody's Protest Art Gerald Early No access
Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun: A Boy's Dream of War Andrew Gordon No access
Ballard's Nightmares/Spielberg's Dreams: Empire of the Sun Frank Gormlie No access
Raiders of the Lost Text H. R. Greenberg No access
Robert Bly Does Peter Pan: The Inner Child as Father to the Man in Steven Spielberg's Hook Patricia Pace No access
Dinomania Stephen Jay Gould No access
The Economies of Schindler's List Kirby Farrell No access
Narration and the Embodiment of Power in Schindler's List Ora Gelley No access
"Amistad" and the Abuse of History Gary Rosen No access
Jerry Don't Surf Louis Menand No access
The Director's Filmography No access Pages 257 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 280
About the Editor No access Pages 281 - 282
About the Contributors No access Pages 283 - 287
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