Steven Spielberg. A Biography

Inbunden bok. Faber and Faber. 1:a uppl. 1997. 530 sidor.

Nära nyskick. Skyddsomslag i mycket gott skick. Fotoillustrerad i sv/v. Språk: Engelska. "Steven Spielberg is responsible for some of the most successful films of all time: 'Jaws', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'E.T'. Yet for years most critics condescendingly regarded Spielberg as a child-man fixated on the toys of movie-making; a director incapable of dealing maturely with the complexities of life. The deeper levels of meaning in those films largely escaped notice, and his more overtly serious work in 'The Sugarland Express', 'The Color Purple' and 'Empire of the Sun' was often dismissed or neglected. Any doubts about Spielberg's artistic stature were finally swept away with 'Schindler's List', his masterpiece about a gentile businessman who saves eleven hundred Jews from the Holocaust, which was hailed as Spielberg's cinematic initiation into emotional manhood. For Spielberg, the film was the culmination of a long personal struggle with his Jewish identity - an identity of which he had long been ashamed, but now triumphantly embraced. In his astute and perceptive biography, Joseph McBride reconciles Spielberg's seeming contradictions and produces a coherent portrait of the man who found a way to transmute the anxieties of his own childhood into the most emotionally powerful and viscerally exciting films ever made. With the depth of insight and breadth of research that marked his acclaimed biography of Frank Capra, McBride has produced a much-needed reassessment of one of the great film-makers of our time".