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A companion to Steven Spielberg / edited by Nigel Morris.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.3.S65 C65 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wiley-Blackwell companions to film directors ; 16.
- Wiley Blackwell companions to film directors ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spielberg, Steven, 1946-.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Spielberg, Steven, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.
- Spielberg, Steven.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 511 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., 2017.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Companion to Steven Spielberg.
- ISBN:
- 9781118726914
- 111872691X
- OCLC:
- 954719813
- Publisher Number:
- 99976725392
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