Empire of dreams
Subtitle: the science fiction and fantasy films of Steven Spielberg
By: Andrew M. Gordon.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780742555778; 9780742555785
Subjects: Spielberg, Steven, -- 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: In the 1970s and 1980s, along with George Lucas, Spielberg helped spark the renaissance of American SF and fantasy film, and he has remained highly productive and prominent in these genres ever since. SF, fantasy, and horror films form the bulk of his work for over thirty years; of the twenty-six theatrical features he directed from 1971 to 2005, sixteen are of these genres, a coherent and impressive body of work. His films have become part of a global consciousness and his cinematic style part of the visual vocabulary of world media. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "I dream for a living"; title: Duel (1971): paranoid style; title: Jaws (1975): hydrophobia; title: Close encounters of the third kind (1977; rev. 1980): unidentified flying object relations; title: E.T. (1982): a fairy tale; title: Poltergeist (1982): divorce American style; title: Raiders of the lost Ark (1981): totem and taboo; title: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984): bad medicine; title: Indiana Jones and the last Crusade (1989): raiders of the lost father; title: Always (1989): the eternal triangle; title: Short films: "Kick the can" (1983) and "The mission" (1986); title: Hook (1991): Peter Pan syndrome; title: Jurassic Park (1993) and The lost world: Jurassic Park (1997): Jaws on land; title: A.I. (Artificial intelligence) (2001): separation anxiety; title: Minority report (2002): Oedipus redux; title: War of the worlds (2005) and trauma culture; title: Conclusion: moving toward the light.