STEVEN SPIELBERG

This comprehensive and in depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived Steven Spielberg Spielberg is the medium s defining artist the embodiment of the Hollywood ideal the commercial potential of film married to its creative possibilities He s widely popular but he s also a stylist and far darker than he is given credit for Often it is this very darkness that speaks to us But it s also his incredible knack for telling stories with lightness that speaks to millions by mixing the extraordinary with the ordinary His leading characters even Indiana Jones are marked by their vulnerability their mistakes their yearning It s the human touch There are so many parts to Spielberg s story the suburban background that supplied the films with a biographical streak the collaborations with George Lucas and the Movie Brats in general with composer John Williams producer Kathleen Kennedy editor Michael Khan stars Richard Dreyfus Harrison Ford and Tom Hanks and mogul and mentor Sid Sheinberg The myths that bloomed from the making of these films The nightmare shoot and stubborn shark behind Jaws The strange ambitions of Close Encounters Dive bombing with 1941 Inventing Indiana Jones Re inventing the blockbuste