Steven Spielberg

Author : Joseph McBride
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604738377

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Steven Spielberg by Joseph McBride Pdf

Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. This new edition adds four chapters to Spielberg's life story, chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from 1997 to the present, a period in which he has balanced his executive duties as one of the partners in the film studio DreamWorks SKG with a remarkable string of films as a director. Spielberg's ambitious recent work--including Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A. I. Artifucial Intelligence, Minority Report, The Terminal and Munich--has continually expanded his range both stylistically and in terms of adventurous, often controversial, subject matter. Steven Spielberg: A Biography brought about a reevaluation of the great filmmaker's life and work by those who viewed him as merely a facile entertainer. This new edition guides readers through the mature artistry of Spielberg's later period in which he manages, against considerable odds, to run a successful studio while maintaining and enlarging his high artistic standards as one of America's most thoughtful, sophisticated, and popular filmmakers.

Author : Dean A. Kowalski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780813138701

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Steven Spielberg and Philosophy by Dean A. Kowalski Pdf

“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 : Molly Haskell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300189827

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Steven Spielberg by Molly Haskell Pdf

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 : Brent Notbohm,Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781496824035

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Steven Spielberg by Brent Notbohm,Lester D. Friedman Pdf

More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of retiring from directing or even slowing down. Since the publication of Steven Spielberg: Interviews in 2000, the filmmaker has crafted some of the most complex movies of his extensive career. His new movies consistently reinvigorate entrenched genres, adding density and depth. Many of the defining characters, motifs, tropes, and themes that emerge in Spielberg’s earliest movies shape these later works as well, but often in new configurations that probe deeper into more complicated subjects—dangerous technology rather than man-eating sharks, homicidal rather than cuddly aliens, lethal terrorism instead of rampaging dinosaurs. Spielberg's movies continue to display a remarkably sophisticated level of artistry that matches, and sometimes exceeds, the memorable visual hallmarks of his prior work. His latest series of films continue to demonstrate an ongoing intellectual restlessness and a willingness to challenge himself as a creative artist. With this new collection of interviews, which includes eleven original interviews from the 2000 edition and nine new interviews, readers will recognize the themes that motivate Spielberg, the cinematic techniques he employs to create his feature films, and the emotional connection he has to his movies. The result is a nuanced and engaging portrait of the most popular director in American cinema history.

Author : Stephanie Spinner,Who HQ
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780698159761

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Who Is Steven Spielberg? by Stephanie Spinner,Who HQ Pdf

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 : Laurent Bouzereau
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781647225179

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Spielberg: The First Ten Years by Laurent Bouzereau Pdf

"In the first ten years of his career, Steven Spielberg directed some of the most influential and beloved films in cinema history. Movies such as Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial introducedaudiences to the modern blockbuster and cemented Spielberg as a monumental figure in pop culture. Through exclusive imagery and unparalleled insight from Spielberg's longtime documentarian, Laurent Bouzereau, this deluxe volume explores how a young filmmaker reinvented American cinema within just ten years. Featuring a fresh perspective on films including Duel, The Sugarland Express, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1941, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, this book is an essential exploration of an iconic filmmaker's early career"--

Author : Gene Barretta
Publisher : Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hachette
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316338982

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Starring Steven Spielberg by Gene Barretta Pdf

"A picture book biography of Steven Spielberg, the celebrated filmmaker"--

Author : Warren Buckland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0826416926

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Directed by Steven Spielberg by Warren Buckland Pdf

Although the blockbuster is the most popular and commercially successful type of filmmaking, it has yet to be studied seriously from a formalist standpoint. This is in opposition to classical Hollywood cinema and International Art cinema, whose form has been analyzed and deconstructed in great detail. Directed By Steven Spielberg fills this gap by examining the distinctive form of the blockbuster. The book focuses on Spielberg's blockbusters, because he is the most consistent and successful director of this type of film - he defines the standard by which other Hollywood blockbusters are judged and compared. But how did Spielberg attain this position? Film critics and scholars generally agree that Spielberg's blockbusters have a unique look and use visual storytelling techniques to their utmost effectiveness. In this book, Warren Buckland examines Spielberg's distinct manipulation of film form, and his singular use of stylistic and narrative techniques. The book demonstrates the aesthetic options available to Spielberg, and particularly the choices he makes in structuring his blockbusters. Buckland emphasizes the director's activity in making a film (particularly such a powerful director as Spielberg), including: visualizing the scene on paper via storyboards; staging and blocking the scene; selecting camera placement and movement; determining the progression or flow of the film from shot to shot; and deciding how to narrate the story to the spectator. Directed By Steven Spielberg combines film studies scholarship with the approach taken by many filmmaking manuals. The unique value of the book lies in its grounding of formal film analysis in filmmaking.

Author : Nigel Morris
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1904764886

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The Cinema of Steven Spielberg by Nigel Morris Pdf

Detailed textual analysis of films from Spielberg's entire career reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, his movies function as a self-reflexive, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies.

Author : Rebecca Felix
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781680775716

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Steven Spielberg: Director and Producer of the Jurassic Park Series by Rebecca Felix Pdf

This title examines the remarkable life of Steven Spielberg. Readers will learn about his family background, childhood, and education, his career as a movie producer and director, and his famous works. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, fast facts, list of famous works, and a critical evaluation activity. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Author : Frederick Wasser
Publisher : Polity
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780745640822

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Steven Spielberg's America by Frederick Wasser Pdf

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 : Laura B. Edge
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766028887

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Steven Spielberg by Laura B. Edge Pdf

"A biography of film director Steven Spielberg"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Philip M. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UOM:39015047733673

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Steven Spielberg by Philip M. Taylor Pdf

Author : Steven Spielberg
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 157806113X

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Steven Spielberg by Steven Spielberg Pdf

Spanning 25 years of Spielberg's career, this book explores the issues, themes, and financial considerations surrounding his works. The blockbuster creator of "E.T., Jaws, " and "Schindler's List" talks about dreams and the almighty dollar. Includes 10 film stills, chronology, filmography, and index.

Author : Clelia Cohen
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 2866425758

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Masters of Cinema: Steven Spielberg by Clelia Cohen Pdf

Steven Spielberg (USA, b. 1946) was the boy wonderof the new Hollywood of the 1970s. TakingOrson Welles as his model, he made Duel agedonly 25, following it up with a string of successesthat brought him the adulation of the studios. Asa fan of special effects, and entirely attuned tothe shift towards younger film audiences, he tookentertainment to