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Author | : Adrian Schober |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-04-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1498518850 |
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To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters,Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T, the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the Sun, the little girl in the red coat in Schindler’s List, the mecha child in A.I., the kidnapped boy in Minority Report, and the eponymous boy hero of The Adventures of Tintin. (There are many other instances across his oeuvre). Contradicting his reputation as a purveyor of ‘popcorn’ entertainment, Spielberg’s vision of children/childhood is complex. Discerning critics have begun to note its darker underpinnings, increasingly fraught with tensions, conflicts and anxieties. But, while childhood is Spielberg’s principal source of inspiration, the topic has never been the focus of a dedicated collection of essays. The essays in Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg therefore seek to address childhood in the full spectrum of Spielberg’s cinema. Fittingly, the scholars represented here draw on a range of theoretical frameworks and disciplines—cinema studies, literary studies, audience reception, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, sociology, and more. This is an important book for not only scholars but teachers and students of Spielberg's work, and for any serious fan of the director and his career.
Author | : Gene Barretta |
Publisher | : Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780316338981 |
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"A picture book biography of Steven Spielberg, the celebrated filmmaker"--
Author | : Stephanie Spinner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2013-12-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0448479354 |
Download Who Is Steven Spielberg? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to Lincoln, young readers and aspiring filmmakers will be fascinated by the life of this famous director.
Author | : Stephanie Spinner |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 2013-12-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0698159764 |
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While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to Lincoln, young readers and aspiring filmmakers will be fascinated by the life of this famous director.
Author | : Molly Haskell |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300189826 |
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A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented Everything about me is in my films, Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg s works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Jurassic Park, and Indiana Jones, to lesser-known masterworks like A.I. and Empire of the Sun, to the haunting Schindler s List, Haskell shows how Spielberg s uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined. Organizing chapters around specific films, the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg s childhood in non-Jewish suburbs, his parents traumatic divorce, his return to Judaism upon his son s birth, and other events echo in his work. She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness, generosity of spirit, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years.
Author | : Emma Wilson |
Publisher | : Wallflower Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781903364505 |
Download Cinema's Missing Children Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. Wilson contends that the loss of a child is perceived as a limit-experience in contemporary cinema, where filmmakers attempt to transform their means of representation as a response to acute pain and horror. She explores the representation of missing and endangered children in a number of the key films of the last decade, including Kieslowski's Three Colours: Blue, Atom Egoyan's Exotica, Todd Solondz's Happiness, Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, Lars von Trier's The Kingdom, and Almodovar's All About My Mother.
Author | : Frederick Wasser |
Publisher | : Polity |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2010-02 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0745640826 |
Download Steven Spielberg's America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. This fascinating new book explains the complex relationship between film and politics through the prism of an iconic filmmaker. Spielberg’s early films were a triumphant emergence of the Sunbelt aesthetic that valued visceral kicks and basic emotions over the ambiguities of history. Such blockbusters have inspired much debate about their negative effect on politics and have been charged as being an expression of the corporatization of life. Here Frederick Wasser argues that the older Spielberg has not fully gone this way, suggesting that the filmmaker recycles the populist vision of older Hollywood because he sincerely believes in both big time moviemaking and liberal democracy. Nonetheless, his stories are burdened by his generation’s hostility to public life, and the book shows how he uses filmmaking tricks to keep his audience with him and to smooth over the ideological contradictions. His audiences have become more global, as his films engage history. This fresh and provocative take on Spielberg in the context of globalization, rampant market capitalism and the hardening socio-political landscape of the United States will be fascinating reading for students of film and for anyone interested in contemporary America and its culture.
Author | : Dean Kowalski |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2008-11-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0813125278 |
Download Steven Spielberg and Philosophy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Without question, few directors have had such a powerful influence on the film industry and the moviegoing public as Steven Spielberg. This book investigates Spielberg's art to illuminate the nature of humanity. It explores themes such as cinematic realism, fictional belief, terrorism, family ethics, consciousness, and virtue and moral character.
Author | : Dean A. Kowalski |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2008-11-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0813138701 |
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“This lively collection of essays on the ideas underpinning his films enriches and enlarges our understanding of Spielberg’s complex body of work.” —Joseph McBride, author of Steven Spielberg: A Biography Few directors have had as powerful an influence on the film industry and the movie-going public as Steven Spielberg. Whatever the subject—dinosaurs, war, extra-terrestrials, slavery, the Holocaust, or terrorism—one clear and consistent touchstone is present in all of Spielberg’s films: an interest in the human condition. In movies ranging from Jaws to Schindler’s List to Amistad to Jurassic Park, he has brought to life some of the most popular heroes—and most despised villains—of all time. In Steven Spielberg and Philosophy, Dean A. Kowalski and some of the nation’s most respected philosophers investigate Spielberg’s art to illuminate the nature of humanity. The book explores rich themes such as cinematic realism, fictional belief, terrorism, family ethics, consciousness, virtue and moral character, human rights, and religion in Spielberg’s work. Avid moviegoers and deep thinkers will discover plenty to enjoy in this collection.
Author | : Ian Wojik-Andrews |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2002-09-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135576602 |
Download Children's Films Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study examines children's films from various critical perspectives, including those provided by classical and current film theory.