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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
Contributor:
Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
Morris, Nigel, 1955- editor.
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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