The Cinema of Steven Spielberg

Empire of Light

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by Nigel Morris

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Steven Spielberg
Keywords: Steven Spielberg
Publishing date: 2007
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Collection: Directors' Cuts
Language: English

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Hardcover • 224 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ¼ inches (16 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-904764-89-2

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Book Presentation:
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 vilificationoften vitriolicfor 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.

About the Author:
Nigel Morris is Principal Lecturer in Media Theory and Teacher Fellow in the Department of Media Production, University of Lincoln. His publications include articles and chapters on aspects of American, British, German and Welsh cinema, literary adaptation, and cinematic and literary modernism.

Press Reviews:
A fascinating take on the man's legendary work. Empire

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