Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewCinema's most successful director is a commercial and cultural force demanding serious consideration. Not just triumphant marketing, this international popularity is partly a function of the movies themselves. Polarised critical attitudes largely overlook this, and evidence either unquestioning adulation or vilification-often vitriolic-for epitomising contemporary Hollywood. Detailed textual analyses reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, Spielberg's movies function consistently as a self-reflexive commentary on cinema. Rather than straightforwardly consumed realism or fantasy, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies. Exercising powerful emotional appeal, their ambiguities are profitably advantageous in maximising audiences and generating media attention. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nigel MorrisPublisher: Wallflower Press Imprint: Wallflower Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.80cm Weight: 0.710kg ISBN: 9781904764885ISBN 10: 1904764886 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 February 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Language: English Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: the Critical Context 1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind: tripping the light fantastic 2. Duel: the descent of Mann 3. The Sugarland Express: a light comedy? 4. Jaws: searching the depths 5. 1941: war on Hollywood 6. Raiders of the Lost Ark: lights, camera, action 7. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: turn on your love light 8. Twilight Zone: The Movie: magic lantern man overshadowed 9. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: anything goes 10. The Color Purple: sisters and brothers 11. Empire of the Sun: shanghai showmanship 12. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: cut to the chase 13. Always: light my fire 14. Hook: an awfully big Pan(a)vision adventure 15. Jurassic Park: another monster hit 16. Schindler's List: darkness visible 17. The Lost World: Jurassic Park: more digital manipulation 18. Amistad: black and white in colour 19. Saving Private Ryan: Hollywood on war 20. A.I. Artificial Intelligence: eyes wide open 21. Minority Report: through a glass, darkly 22. Catch Me If You Can: captured on celluloid 23. The Terminal: all that jazz 24. War of the Worlds: rays in the mirror 25. Munich: bitter fruit on the olive branch 26. Audiences, subjectivity and pleasure Bibliography IndexReviewsA fascinating take on the man's legendary work. -- Empire Highly recommended.--Choice A fascinating take on the man's legendary work.--Empire Author InformationNigel Morris is Principal Lecturer in Media Theory and Teacher Fellow in the Department of Media Production, University of Lincoln. His publications include articles and chapters on aspects of American, British, German and Welsh cinema, literary adaptation, and cinematic and literary modernism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
