Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg

Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg

Sanna, Antonio; Barkman, Adam; Barkman, Adam; Johnson, Paul; Ketcham, Christopher H.; Karacsony, Orsolya; Daniel, Adam; Jimenez, Christian; LaRocca, David; Colombani, Elsa

Lexington Books

03/2022

294

Mole

Inglês

9781498593618

15 a 20 dias

440

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Part 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 Zarate, 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
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children in film;cinema;dinosaurs;extraterrestrials;historical films;Indiana Jones;science fiction;special effects;war films