Directed by Steven Spielberg : poetics of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster
Combining film studies scholarship with the approach taken by many filmmakingmanuals, this is a serious study of the Hollywood blockbuster via the work ofSteven Spielberg
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780826416919, 9780826416926, 0826416918, 0826416926
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Origins of the contemporary Hollywood blockbuster
Poetics of film directing
Pre-blockbuster work: from Amblin' (1968) to Duel (1971)
'Duel with a shark': Jaws (1975)
The UFO experience: Close encounters of the third kind (1977 theatrical release)
Serials, chase scenes, and off-screen presences: Raiders of the lost ark (1981)
Dramas of suburbia and authorship: Poltergeist (1982) and E.T (1982), or, who really directed Poltergeist?
'Close encounters of the prehistoric kind': narrative, narration and spectacle in Jurassic Park (1993)
Precogs dream of future murders (not electric sheep): Minority report (2002)
News from Mars: War of the worlds (2005)