Bibliograph

Darkness in the bliss-out, a reconsideration of the films of Steven Spielberg, James Kendrick

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Darkness in the bliss-out, a reconsideration of the films of Steven Spielberg, James Kendrick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Darkness in the bliss-out

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

869880362

Responsibility statement

James Kendrick

Sub title

a reconsideration of the films of Steven Spielberg

Table Of Contents

Introduction: Steven Spielberg and the politics of bliss -- "I didn't want to see this" : weekend America and its discontents in Close encounters of the third kind, E.T., and Poltergeist -- "Americans fighting Americans" : incoherence and animal comedy in 1941 -- "What exactly are we applauding?" Indiana Jones and the ideologies of heroism and American exceptionalism -- "Lost and done for" : the rejection of war fantasies in Empire of the sun and War horse -- "For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand" : humanity and inhumanity in A.I Artificial Intelligence

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