{"product_id":"a-critical-companion-to-steven-spielberg-9781498593595","title":"A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg, whose numerous and heterogeneous films include extremely successful productions such as Jaws (1975), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982), the Indiana Jones saga (19812008), Jurassic Park (1993), Schindler's List (1993), and Saving Private Ryan (1999), as well as less-known films such as 1941 (1979), Always (1989), War Horse (2011), and The Adventures of Tintin (2011). Spielberg's early productions stand as landmarks in contemporary cinema and his involvement with film has been spanning all cinematic genres. Today Spielberg enjoys an immense and enduring popularity around the globe and his productions have attracted (and continue to attract) both public and critical attention. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Spielberg's works and addresses the different approaches and the range of topics invited by the multidimensionality of his oeuvre. The eighte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo serious scholar of film should be without this important book dealing with such a significant film maker and cultural icon as Steven Spielberg. The book provides comprehensive and in-depth treatment of the man and his work—both in relation to his person and history—as well as his actual films. A must have. -- Bill Anderson, Professor of Religious Studies at Concordia University of Edmonton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: The Artist and Philosopher     Chapter 1: “One of the Phenomenal Debut Films in the History of Movies”: The Sugarland Express as Expression of Spielberg’s ‘Movie Sense’ and as Contribution to a Genre Cycle, David LaRocca   Chapter 2: Adapting Objects: Spielberg and the Art of Making Strange, Paul Johnson   Chapter 3: Fear and Wonder: The Lived-Body Experience of Spielberg’s Cinema, Adam Daniel   Chapter 4: Galloping into the Jaws of Death: The Psychology of Animal Symbolism in Jaws and War Horse, Jennifer L. McMahon   Chapter 5: A Million Light Years from Home: Spielberg’s Extraterrestrials, Transhumanism, and Constructions of Alterity, Elizabeth Lowry  Chapter 6: Of Children and Redrums: The Influence of Stanley Kubrick on A.I. and Minority Report, Elsa Colombani     Part II: The Dreamer    Chapter 7: Poiesis and Miracles: From Something Evil to “The Mission,” Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Mariana Soledad Zárate, and Eduardo Veteri  Chapter 8: Deus ex Machina: Spielberg’s Fantastic Visions of Tragedy and Grace, Joshua Sikora   Chapter 9: A Modern Pythia: The Oracle in Minority Report, Sabine Planka  Chapter 10: The Politics of Nostalgia: Reconstructing Epic Heroism in Spielberg’s Amblin’ and Always, Christian Jimenez  Chapter 11: Piracy, Boy Heroes, and the Importance of Playing the Game in Spielberg’s Hook and The Adventures of Tintin, Sue Matheson   Chapter 12: Categorizing E.T., Christopher H. Ketcham    Part III: The Historian     Chapter 13: “I Thought You Were an American”: Spielberg, 1941, and Saving Private Ryan, Sean O’Reilly  Chapter 14: Testimonies of the Past: Spielberg’s Moral Exploration of Racial Discrimination,” Michael Versteeg   Chapter 15: Writing Postmodern Histories in Hollywood: The Portrayal of the Male Characters in Catch Me If You Can, Bridge of Spies, and The Post, Orsolya Karacsony   Chapter 16: Dignified Professor and Intrepid Adventurer: Two Facets of Indiana Jones, Carl Sobocinski  Chapter 17: “We Spared No Expense”: Practical Utopias in Jurassic Park, The Terminal, and Ready Player One,” Carl Sweeney  Chapter 18: Trivialization, Displacement, and Historical Amnesia: The Work of Innocence and Embrace in Empire of the Sun and War of the Worlds, Naaman K. Wood and David J. Strickler","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040865878359,"sku":"9781498593595","price":98.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critical-companion-to-steven-spielberg-9781498593595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}