A companion to Steven Spielberg / edited by Nigel Morris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nigel Morris -- Industry and Agency. Spielberg as Director, Producer, and Movie Mogul / Thomas Schatz -- Producing the Spielberg'brand' / James Russell -- Narration and style. Magisterial juvenilia: Amblin' and Spielberg's early television work / Nigel Morris -- Finding his voice: experimentation and innovation in Duel, The sugarland express, and 1941 / James Kendrick -- Creating a cliffhanger: narration in the lost world: Jurassic Park / Warren Buckland -- Steven Spielberg and the rhetoric of an ending / Michael Walker -- The Spielberg gesture: performance and intensified continuity / Steven Rybin -- Collaborations and intertexts. Spielberg-Williams: symphonic cinema / Jack Sullivan -- Spielberg and Kubrick / Peter Kramer -- Spielberg and adaptation / I.Q. Hunter --'A very brutal end of innocence': notes towards an appreciation of Spielberg's film of Empire of the sun / Neil Sinyard -- Themes and variations.'Who am I, David?': motherhood in Spielberg's dramas of family dysfunction / Linda Ruth Williams -- Close encounters of the paternal kind: Spielberg's fatherhoods / Murray Pomerance -- Spielberg and Rockwell: realism and the liberal imagination / Frederick Wasser -- Too brave for foolish pride: violence in the films of Steven Spielberg / Stephen Prince -- Spielberg, history and identity. Morality tales? visions of the past in Spielberg's history plays / Sarah Barrow --'Britain's secret Schindler': the impact of Schindler's list on British media perceptions of civilian heroes / Erin Bell -- The (m)orality of murder: Jews, food, and Steven Spielberg's Munich / Nathan Abrams and Gerwyn Owen -- You must remember this: history as film/film as history / Lester D. Friedman -- Violence and memory in Spielberg's Lincoln / Robert Burgoyne and John Trafton -- Spielberg in the digital age. The Spielberg effects / Dan North -- Spielberg and videogames (1982-2010) / Grethe Mitchell -- Reception. Sharks, aliens and Nazis: the crisis of film criticism and the rise of Steven Spielberg / Raymond J. Haberski, Jr -- Spielberg, fandom and the popular appeal of his blockbuster movies / Lincoln Geraghty -- Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director / Kirsty Fairclough and Andy Willis.

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