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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction | p. xiii |
Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
Chronology | p. xxv |
Chapter 1 Jaws | p. 1 |
Archetypal Landscapes and Jaws | p. 3 |
Integrating Ideology and Archetype in Rhetorical Criticism, Part II: A Case Study of Jaws | p. 15 |
Chapter 2 Close Encounters of the Third Kind | p. 45 |
Language and the Music of the Spheres: Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind | p. 47 |
Chapter 3 Raiders of the Lost Ark | p. 57 |
Raiders of the Lost Archetype: The Quest and the Shadow | p. 59 |
Chapter 4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial | p. 69 |
The Look Back in E.T. | p. 71 |
Chapter 5 The Color Purple | p. 91 |
The Color Purple as Everybody's Protest Art | p. 93 |
Chapter 6 Empire of the Sun | p. 107 |
Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun: A Boy's Dream of War | p. 109 |
Ballard's Nightmares/Spielberg's Dreams: Empire of the Sun | p. 127 |
Chapter 7 Always | p. 139 |
Raiders of the Lost Text | p. 141 |
Chapter 8 Hook | p. 157 |
Robert Bly Does Peter Pan: The Inner Child as Father to the Man in Steven Spielberg's Hook | p. 159 |
Chapter 9 Jurassic Park | p. 169 |
Dinomania | p. 171 |
Chapter 10 Schindler's List | p. 189 |
The Economies of Schindler's List | p. 191 |
Narration and the Embodiment of Power in Schindler's List | p. 215 |
Chapter 11 Amistad | p. 237 |
"Amistad" and the Abuse of History | p. 239 |
Chapter 12 Saving Private Ryan | p. 249 |
Jerry Don't Surf | p. 251 |
The Director's Filmography | p. 257 |
Index | p. 269 |
About the Editor | p. 281 |
About the Contributors | p. 283 |