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OverviewAfter 45 years, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the film’s significant place in cinema history. Bringing together established and young scholars, the book includes contributions from leading international writers on popular cinema including Murray Pomerance, Peter Krämer, Sheldon Hall, Nigel Morris and Linda Ruth Williams, and covers such diverse topics as the film’s release, reception and canonicity; its representation of masculinity and children; the use of landscape and the ocean; its status as a western; sequels and fan-edits; and its galvanizing impact on the horror film, action movie and contemporary Hollywood itself. Full Product DetailsAuthor: I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) , Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic USA Weight: 0.562kg ISBN: 9781501347528ISBN 10: 1501347527 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 17 September 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Carl Gottlieb (Screenwriter of Jaws) Introduction I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) and Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part One: Production, Reception and Style 1. ‘She Was the First’: The Place of Jaws in American Film History Peter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK) 2. Not the First: Myths of Jaws Sheldon Hall (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 3. Cutting to the Chase: Editing Jaws Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 4. ‘The Shark is Not Working’ – But the Music Is: Scoring a Hit with Jaws Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton, UK) 5. In the Teeth of Criticism: Forty-Five Years of Jaws Nigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK) 6. Jaws, in Theory Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) Part Two: Interpretation 7. Jaws as Jewish Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK) 8. Children as Bait Linda Ruth Williams (Exeter University, UK) 9. Reflexive Epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park Robert Geal (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 10. ‘We Delivered the Bomb’: On Jaws, Guilt, and the Atomic Myth Matthew Leggatt (University of Winchester, UK) 11. The Way Home: Shifting Perspectives in Jaws Daniel Varndell (University of Winchester, UK) 12. Relocating the Western in Jaws Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part Three: Beyond Jaws 13. ‘Just When You Thought It Was Safe...’: The Jaws Sequels Kathleen Loock (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. Martha’s Vineyard Revisited: The Making-Ofs and Their Narrative Strategies Felix Lempp (University of Hamburg, Germany) 15. Ben Gardner’s Head is Missing: Notes on Jaws: The Sharksploitation Edit Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK) 16. Live Every Week Like It’s Shark Week: Jaws and Natural History Documentary Vincent Campbell (University of Leicester, UK) IndexReviewsAn excellent variety of fascinating readings about a surprisingly complex film of the 1970s. The range of approaches is stimulating, accessible, and superbly thought out. Each essay increases our knowledge of Jaws from a variety of perspectives and heightens our understanding of the film. * Robert P. Kolker, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA * Author InformationI.Q. Hunter is Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK, and the author of British Trash Cinema (2013), Cult Film as a Guide to Life (2016), editor of British Science Fiction Cinema (1999) and co-editor of British Comedy Cinema (2012) and The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History (2016). Matthew Melia is a Senior Lecturer in film and television at Kingston University, UK. His research interests include the work of Ken Russell, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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