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Steven Spielberg, a biography, Joseph McBride

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Steven Spielberg, a biography, Joseph McBride

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Filmography and videography: pages 501-508Includes bibliographical references (pages 455-499) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Steven Spielberg

Nature of contents

bibliographyfilmographies

Oclc number

36045936

Responsibility statement

Joseph McBride

Sub title

a biography

Summary

In this full-scale, in-depth biography of Steven Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. With the same breadth of research and clarity of insight that characterized his acclaimed biography of Frank Capra, McBride has gone in search of the true Steven Spielberg, interviewing more than 325 of the director's friends and associates, many of whom had never spokenAbout him before. Drawing a vivid and highly detailed portrait of Spielberg's extraordinary childhood and his early amateur filmmaking, McBride uncovers the cultural and personal influences that came together to form Spielberg's artistic personality. McBride traces Spielberg's evolution from an introverted social outcast into the precocious talent who won a contract with Universal at age twenty-one. Steven Spielberg: A Biography explains how Spielberg's ambivalentAttitude toward his Jewish heritage and painful experiences with anti-Semitism during adolescence turned him toward popular filmmaking by impelling him to seek approval from the widest possible audience. Perceptively analyzing Spielberg's work, McBride shows how the filmmaker transformed his own fears and obsessions into films that have entertained millions of people throughout the world. Eventually, Spielberg's artistic ambitions became unmistakable in such powerful butUneven films as The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun, until finally, with Schindler's List, Spielberg's emotional candor and courage yielded what is widely acknowledged as a cinematic masterpiece

Table Of Contents

"How wondrous are thy works" -- "Mazik" -- "Meshuggeneh" -- "A wimp in a world of jocks" -- "Big Spiel" -- "Hell on earth" -- "A hell of a big break" -- "This tremendous meatgrinder" -- "The Steven Spielburg business" -- "A primal scream movie" -- Watch the skies -- "Rehab" -- "Ecstasy and grief" -- "Adult truths" -- "An awfully big adventure" -- Mensch

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