The Jaws Book
Subtitle: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster
By: edited by I.Q. Hunter and Matthew Melia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Published: 2020
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781501347542
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); History and criticism; Action and adventure films; Horror films; Motion pictures; Production and direction; History; Thrillers (Films); Histoire et critique; Films d'aventures; Films d'horreur; Cinéma; Production et réalisation; Histoire; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers; Films, cinema; Performing Arts; Film & Video; General; History & Criticism; Individual Director; Jaws (Motion picture : 1975)
Description: "A collection offering new research and insights into Steven Spielberg's classic thriller Jaws"--
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
Table of contents: title: 'She was the first' : the place of Jaws in American film history / Peter Krämer; title: Not the first : myths of Jaws / Sheldon Hall; title: Cutting to the chase : editing Jaws / Warren Buckland; title: 'The shark is not working'; title: but the music is : scoring a hit with Jaws / Emilio Audissino; title: In the teeth of criticism : forty-five years of Jaws / Nigel Morris; title: Jaws, in theory / Murray Pomerance; title: Jaws as Jewish / Nathan Abrams; title: Children as bait / Linda Ruth Williams; title: Reflexive epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park / Robert Geal; title: 'We delivered the bomb' : on Jaws, guilt, and the atomic myth / Matthew Leggatt; title: The way home : shifting perspectives in Jaws / Daniel Varndell; title: Relocating the Western in Jaws / Matthew Melia; title: 'Just when you thought it was safe ... ' : the Jaws sequels / Kathleen Loock; title: Martha's Vineyard revisited : the making-ofs and their narrative strategies / Felix Lempp; title: Ben Gardner's head is missing : notes on Jaws : the sharksploitation edit / Neil Jackson; title: Live every week like it's shark week : Jaws and natural history documentary / Vincent Campbell.