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The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
Nigel Morris
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
Nigel Morris
Cinema'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.
224 pages, Illustrations
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | September 1, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9781904764892 |
Publishers | Wallflower Press |
Pages | 224 |
Dimensions | 163 × 239 × 40 mm · 934 g |
Language | English |
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