The Cinema of Steven Spielberg : Empire of Light

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Contents: Acknowledgments = ⅶ Introduction: the Critical Context = 1 1 Close Encounters of the Third Kind: tripping the light fantastic = 8 2 Duel: the descent of Mann = 20 3 The Sugarland Express: a light comedy? = 32 4 Jaws: searching the depths = 43 5 1941: war on Hollywood = 62 6 Raiders of the Lost Ark: lights, camera, action = 73 7 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: Turn on your love light = 84 8 Twilight Zone: The Movie: magic lantern man overshadowed = 95 9 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: anything goes = 102 10 The Color Purple: sister and brothers = 113 11 Empire of the Sun: shanghai showmanship = 135 12 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: cut to the chase = 149 13 Always: light my fire = 159 14 Hook: an awfully big Pan(a)vision adventure = 176 15 Jurassic Park: another monster hit = 192 16 Schindler's List: darkness visible = 214 17 The Lost World: Jurassic Park: more digital manipulation = 239 18 Amistad: black and white in colour = 251 19 Saving Private Ryan: Hollywood on war = 270 20 A.I. Artificial Intelligence: eyes wide open = 299 21 Minority Report: though a glass, darkly = 316 22 Catch Me If You Can: captured on celluloid = 330 23 The Terminal: all that jazz = 343 24 War of the Worlds: rays in the mirror = 352 25 Munich: bitter fruit on the olive branch = 359 26 Audiences, subjectivity and pleasure = 376 Biblography = 394 Index = 421

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