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Directed by Stephen Spielberg - Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (Paperback)
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Directed by Stephen Spielberg - Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (Paperback)
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Although the blockbuster is the most popular and commercially
successful type of filmmaking, it has yet to be studied seriously
from a formalist standpoint. This is in opposition to classical
Hollywood cinema and International Art cinema, whose form has been
analyzed and deconstructed in great detail. "Directed By Steven
Spielberg" fills this gap by examining the distinctive form of the
blockbuster. The book focuses on Spielberg's blockbusters, because
he is the most consistent and successful director of this type of
film - he defines the standard by which other Hollywood
blockbusters are judged and compared. But how did Spielberg attain
this position? Film critics and scholars generally agree that
Spielberg's blockbusters have a unique look and use visual
storytelling techniques to their utmost effectiveness. In this
book, Warren Buckland examines Spielberg's distinct manipulation of
film form, and his singular use of stylistic and narrative
techniques. The book demonstrates the aesthetic options available
to Spielberg, and particularly the choices he makes in structuring
his blockbusters. Buckland emphasizes the director's activity in
making a film (particularly such a powerful director as Spielberg),
including: visualizing the scene on paper via storyboards; staging
and blocking the scene; selecting camera placement and movement;
determining the progression or flow of the film from shot to shot;
and deciding how to narrate the story to the spectator. "Directed
By Steven Spielberg" combines film studies scholarship with the
approach taken by many filmmaking manuals. The unique value of the
book lies in its grounding of formal film analysis in filmmaking.
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