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Steven Spielberg : A Biography by Joseph McBride (2011, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi

ISBN-101604738367

ISBN-139781604738360

eBay Product ID (ePID)92340078

Product Key Features

Edition2

Book TitleSteven Spielberg : a Biography

Number of Pages640 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEntertainment & Performing Arts, Individual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenrePerforming Arts, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJoseph Mcbride

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.4 in

Item Weight32.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-020935

ReviewsFilm history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception.Kirkus Reviews Shrewd and unsentimental.Publishers Weekly Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw.New Times (Los Angeles), "Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw." -- New Times (Los Angeles), Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw., "Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception." --Kirkus Reviews"Shrewd and unsentimental." --Publishers Weekly"Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw." --New Times(Los Angeles), "Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception." -- Kirkus Reviews "Shrewd and unsentimental." -- Publishers Weekly "Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw." -- New Times (Los Angeles)

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal791.4/3/0233/092

SynopsisUntil 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. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been.This new edition adds four chapters to Spielberg's life story, chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from 1997 to the present, a period in which he has balanced his executive duties as one of the partners in the film studio DreamWorks SKG with a remarkable string of films as a director. Spielberg's ambitious recent work--including Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A. I. Artifucial Intelligence, Minority Report, The Terminal and Munich--has continually expanded his range both stylistically and in terms of adventurous, often controversial, subject matter.Steven Spielberg: A Biography brought about a reevaluation of the great filmmaker's life and work by those who viewed him as merely a facile entertainer. This new edition guides readers through the mature artistry of Spielberg's later period in which he manages, against considerable odds, to run a successful studio while maintaining and enlarging his high artistic standards as one of America's most thoughtful, sophisticated, and popular filmmakers., 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. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. This new edition adds four chapters to Spielberg's life story, chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from 1997 to the present, a period in which he has balanced his executive duties as one of the partners in the film studio DreamWorks SKG with a remarkable string of films as a director. Spielberg's ambitious recent work--including Amistad , Saving Private Ryan , A. I. Artifucial Intelligence , Minority Report , The Terminal and Munich --has continually expanded his range both stylistically and in terms of adventurous, often controversial, subject matter. Steven Spielberg: A Biography brought about a reevaluation of the great filmmaker's life and work by those who viewed him as merely a facile entertainer. This new edition guides readers through the mature artistry of Spielberg's later period in which he manages, against considerable odds, to run a successful studio while maintaining and enlarging his high artistic standards as one of America's most thoughtful, sophisticated, and popular filmmakers., 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. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. This new edition adds four chapters to Spielberg's life story, chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from 1997 to the present, a period in which he has balanced his executive duties as one of the partners in the film studio DreamWorks SKG with a remarkable string of films as a director. Spielberg's ambitious recent work--including Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A. I. Artifucial Intelligence, Minority Report, The Terminal and Munich--has continually expanded his range both stylistically and in terms of adventurous, often controversial, subject matter. Steven Spielberg: A Biography brought about a reevaluation of the great filmmaker's life and work by those who viewed him as merely a facile entertainer. This new edition guides readers through the mature artistry of Spielberg's later period in which he manages, against considerable odds, to run a successful studio while maintaining and enlarging his high artistic standards as one of America's most thoughtful, sophisticated, and popular filmmakers.

LC Classification NumberPN1998.3.S65M32 2010