The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
The Cinema of Steven Spielberg
副标题: Empire of Light (Directors' Cuts)
ISBN: 9781904764885
出版社: Wallflower Press
出版年: 2007-04-30
页数: 434
定价: USD 25.00
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
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.