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Steven Spielberg - A Biography (Third Edition) (Paperback, Main)
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Steven Spielberg - A Biography (Third Edition) (Paperback, Main)
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Steven Spielberg is responsible for some of the most successful
films ever made: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and
the 'Indiana Jones' series. Yet for many years most critics
condescendingly regarded Spielberg as a child-man incapable of
dealing maturely with the complexities of life. The deeper levels
of meaning in his films were largely ignored. This changed with
Schindler's List, his masterpiece about a gentile businessman who
saves eleven hundred Jews from the Holocaust. For Spielberg, the
film was the culmination of a long struggle with his Jewish
identity - an identity of which he had long been ashamed, but now
triumphantly embraced. Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg:
A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's
personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic,
in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize
his own past. In his astute and perceptive biography, Joseph
McBride reconciled Spielberg's seeming contradictions and produced
a coherent portrait of the man who found a way to transmute the
anxieties of his own childhood into some of the most emotionally
powerful and viscerally exciting films ever made. In the second
edition, McBride added four chapters to Spielberg's life story,
chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from
1997 to 2010, a period in which he balanced his executive duties as
one of the partners in the film studio DreamWorks SKG with a
remarkable string of films as a director: Amistad, Saving Private
Ryan, A. I. Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, The Terminal
and Munich -- films which expanded his range both stylistically and
in terms of adventurous, often controversial, subject matter. This
third edition brings Spielberg's career up to date with material on
two recent films he directed, The Adventures of Tintin and War
Horse, analyzing what they represent in terms of Spielberg's
overall career development as an artist making both lighter and
darker works alternately involving fantasy or history. The new
sections also deal with the recent upheavals in Spielberg's
position as a minimogul, his uneven but prolific work as a
producer, and his upcoming projects. The original edition of Steven
Spielberg: A Biography was praised by the New York Times Book
Review as 'an exemplary portrait' written with 'impressive detail
and sensitivity'; Time called it 'easily the finest and fairest of
the unauthorized biographies of the director.' Of the second
edition, Nigel Morris - author of The Cinema of Steven Spielberg:
Empire of Light - wrote: 'With this tour de force, McBride remains
the godfather of Spielberg studies.'
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