Darkness in the Bliss-Out - A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg (Hardcover)

While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see it as essentially optimistic, reassuring, and conservative. James Kendrick takes an alternate view of Spielberg's cinema and proposes that his films--even the most popular ones that seem to trade in easy answers and comforting, reassuring notions of cohesion and narrative resolution--are significantly darker and more emotionally and ideologically complex than they are routinely given credit for. "Darkness in the Bliss-Out" demonstrates, through close analysis of a wide range of Spielberg's films, that they are only reassuring on the surface, and that their depths embody a complex and sometimes contradictory view of the human condition.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic USA
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	James Kendrick
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-4411-8895-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Individual film directors, film-makers
LSN:	1-4411-8895-9
Barcode:	9781441188953

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!