Steven Spielberg : a life in films / Molly Haskell.
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TextSeries: Jewish lives (New Haven, Conn.)Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300186932
- 0300186932
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a film-centric portrait of Steven Spielberg, the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented
"A swift and elegant introduction to Spielberg's life and work."--David Denby, New Yorker
"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.
About Jewish Lives:
Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.
In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index.
Beginnings and the Lost Ark -- Steve bites his nails and hears voices -- Arcadia : the best and worst of times -- The kid with the briefcase -- Jaws "Open Wide" -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind -- 1941 and Raiders of the Lost Ark -- E.T., Poltergeist, and Twilight Zone -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Color Purple -- Empire of the Sun -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Always, and Hook -- Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, and the Shoah Foundation -- Amistad and The Lost World : Jurassic Park Saving Private Ryan and A.I. -- Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can -- The Terminal, War of the Worlds, and Munich -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Adventures of Tintin, and War Horse -- Lincoln and Bridge of Spies.
A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.