The Cinema of Steven Spielberg - Empire of Light

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Morris Klappentext 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 vilification& mdash;often vitriolic& mdash;for 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Morris
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2007
• EAN: 9781904764892
• ISBN: 978-1-904764-89-2
• No. of pages: 434
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Directors' Cuts; Directors' Cuts
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV