Wallflower Press
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light
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9781904764885
ISBN13:
9781904764885
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$34.47
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg: Empire of Light
$34.47
Cinema's most successful director is a commercial and cultural force demanding serious consideration. Not just triumphant marketing, this international popularity is partly a function of the movies themselves. Polarised critical attitudes largely overlook this, and evidence either unquestioning adulation or vilification--often vitriolic--for epitomising contemporary Hollywood. Detailed textual analyses reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, Spielberg's movies function consistently as a self-reflexive commentary on cinema. Rather than straightforwardly consumed realism or fantasy, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies. Exercising powerful emotional appeal, their ambiguities are profitably advantageous in maximising audiences and generating media attention.
| Author: Nigel Morris |
| Publisher: Wallflower Press |
| Publication Date: Feb 13, 2007 |
| Number of Pages: 224 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1904764886 |
| ISBN-13: 9781904764885 |
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