false 160958 479609 157806113X 9781578061136 1 <![CDATA[Steven Spielberg: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175107282m/479609.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/479609.Steven_Spielberg_Interviews 4.20 10 Steven Spielberg has become a brand name and a force that extends far beyond the movie screen. Phrases like "phone home" and the music score from Jaws are now part of our cultural script, appearing in commercials, comedy routines, and common conversation.

Yet few scholars have devoted time to studying Spielberg's vast output of popular films despite the director's financial and aesthetic achievements. Spanning twenty-five years of Spielberg's career, Steven Spielberg: Interviews explores the issues, the themes, and the financial considerations surrounding his work. The blockbuster creator of E.T., Jaws, and Schindler's List talks about dreams and the almighty dollar.

"I'm not really interested in making money," he says. "That's always come as the result of success, but it's not been my goal, and I've had a tough time proving that to people."

Ranging from Spielberg's twenties to his mid-fifties, the interviews chart his evolution from a brash young filmmaker trying to make his way in Hollywood, to his spectacular blockbuster triumphs, to his maturation as a director seeking to inspire the imagination with meaningful subjects.

The Steven Spielberg who emerges in these talks is a complex mix of businessman and artist, of arrogance and insecurity, of shallowness and substance. Often interviewers will uncover the director's human side, noting how changes in Spielberg's personal life -- marriage, divorce, fatherhood, remarriage -- affect his movies. But always the interviewers find keys to the story-telling and filmmaking talent that have made Spielberg's characters and themes shape our times and inhabit our dreams.

"Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about," he says. "Whether you watch eight hours of Shoah or whether it's Ghostbusters, when the lights go down in the theater and the movie fades in, it's magic."

Lester D. Friedman teaches medical humanities and bioethics at Upstate Medical University and cinema studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. Brent Notbohm of Spring Green, Wisconsin, is a freelance instructor of film production and media studies. He has written and directed several films and videos independently and as a graduate student at Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts.

]]> 174694 3.48 251 25 160958 3.96 25 6 2845879 4.20 10 1 800563 0813540232 9780813540238 1 <![CDATA[American Cinema of the 1970s: Themes and Variations]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178492191m/800563.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/800563.American_Cinema_of_the_1970s_Themes_and_Variations 4.00 3 Far from a placid era, the seventies was a decade of social upheavals. Events such as the killing of students at Kent State and Jackson State universities, the Watergate investigations, the legalization of abortion, and the end of the American involvement in Vietnam are only a few among the many landmark occurrences that challenged the foundations of American culture. The director-driven movies of this era reflect this turmoil, experimenting with narrative structures, offering a gallery of scruffy antiheroes, and revising traditional genre conventions.

Bringing together ten original essays, American Cinema of the 1970s examines the range of films that marked the decade, including Jaws, Rocky, Love Story, Shaft, Dirty Harry, The Godfather, Deliverance, The Exorcist, Shampoo, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Saturday Night Fever, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Apocalypse Now.

]]> 160958 3.96 25 6 1949598 1904764711 9781904764717 0 <![CDATA[Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190753346m/1949598.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1949598.Fires_Were_Started_British_Cinema_and_Thatcherism 4.00 1 Fires Were Started is a provocative analysis of the responses of British film to the policies and political ideology of the Conservative governments of Margaret Thatcher and it represents an original and stimulating contribution to our knowledge of British cinema. This second edition includes revised and updated contributions from some of the leading scholars of British cinema, including Thomas Elsaesser, Peter Wollen and Manthia Diawara. The book discuss prominent filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway, Derek Jarman, Ken Russell, Nicolas Roeg and Stephen Frears, it also explores some lesser known but equally important territory such as the work of Black British filmmakers, the Leeds Animation Workshop and Channel 4's Film on Four. Films discussed include Distant Voices, Still Lives, My Beautiful Launderette, Chariots of Fire and Drowning by Numbers.

]]> 160958 3.96 25 6 917232 0252073584 9780252073588 1 <![CDATA[Citizen Spielberg]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437201m/917232.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917232.Citizen_Spielberg 3.50 2 160958 3.96 25 6 276253 0822332949 9780822332947 0 <![CDATA[Cultural Sutures: Medicine and Media]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173340845m/276253.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/276253.Cultural_Sutures_Medicine_and_Media 3.50 2 Cultural Sutures delineate this deeply collaborative process by scrutinizing a broad range of interconnections between medicine and the media in print journalism, advertisements, fiction films, television shows, documentaries, and computer technology.

In this volume, scholars of cinema studies, philosophy, English, sociology, health-care education, women’s studies, bioethics, and other fields demonstrate how the world of medicine engages and permeates the media that surround us. Whether examining the press coverage of the Jack Kevorkian–euthanasia controversy; pondering questions about accessibility, accountability, and professionalism raised by such films as Awakenings, The Doctor, and Lorenzo’s Oil; analyzing the depiction of doctors, patients, and medicine on E.R. and Chicago Hope; or considering the ways in which digital technologies have redefined the medical body, these essays are consistently illuminating and provocative.

Contributors. Arthur Caplan, Tod Chambers, Stephanie Clark-Brown, Marc R. Cohen, Kelly A. Cole, Lucy Fischer, Lester D. Friedman, Joy V. Fuqua, Sander L. Gilman, Norbert Goldfield, Joel Howell, Therese Jones, Timothy Lenoir, Gregory Makoul, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Faith McLellan, Jonathan M. Metzl, Christie Milliken, Martin F. Norden, Kirsten Ostherr, Limor Peer, Audrey Shafer, Joseph Turow, Greg VandeKieft, Otto F. Wahl]]> 160958 3.96 25 6 4986486 0813544378 9780813544373 1 <![CDATA[Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4986486.Second_Star_to_the_Right_Peter_Pan_in_the_Popular_Imagination 3.50 2 Since 2003 the characters from this story have had a highly visible presence in nearly every genre of popular culture: two major films, a literary sequel to the original adventures, a graphic novel featuring a grown-up Wendy Darling, and an Argentinean novel about a children s book writer inspired by J. M. Barrie. Simultaneously, Barrie surfaced as the subject of two major biographies and a feature film. The engaging essays in Second Star to the Right approach Pan from literary, dramatic, film, television, and sociological perspectives and, in the process, analyze his emergence and preservation in the cultural imagination.]]> 997602 3.50 2 1 160958 3.96 25 6 917238 0806510196 9780806510194 0 <![CDATA[The Jewish Image in American Film]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1234687380m/917238.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917238.The_Jewish_Image_in_American_Film 5.00 1 ]]> 160958 3.96 25 6 917239 0252061527 9780252061523 0 <![CDATA[Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437208m/917239.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917239.Unspeakable_Images_Ethnicity_and_the_American_Cinema 4.00 1 In fourteen chapters on topics ranging from film comedy to reporter movies to Latins in Manhattan, contributors from diverse disciplines explore ethnicity as a broad, complex, multilayered concept. The book's first section scrutinizes ethnicity within the context of traditional modes of film analysis---historical, auteurist, and generic. Essays in the second section relate ethnicity to broader areas of critical thought such as cultural studies, ethnography, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and class studies, analyzing how each intersects and amplifies the other.
]]> 160958 3.96 25 6 917234 0521596971 9780521596978 0 <![CDATA[Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (Cambridge Film Handbooks)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437207m/917234.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917234.Arthur_Penn_s_Bonnie_and_Clyde 3.00 1 160958 3.96 25 6 1949599 0816620806 9780816620807 1 <![CDATA[Fires Were Started: British Cinema and Thatcherism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190753347m/1949599.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1949599.Fires_Were_Started_British_Cinema_and_Thatcherism 3.00 1 160958 3.96 25 6 3026647 025206450X 9780252064500 0 <![CDATA[Shared Differences: Multicultural Media and Practical Pedagogy]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3026647.Shared_Differences_Multicultural_Media_and_Practical_Pedagogy 0.0 0 160958 3.96 25 6 917233 0851708161 9780851708164 0 <![CDATA[Bonnie and Clyde]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179437206m/917233.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/917233.Bonnie_and_Clyde 0.0 0 Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) changed American cinema, reinvigorating the gangster genre with European, New Wave techniques and a radically candid view of sex and violence. Starring Warren Beatty, who also produced, and Faye Dunaway, the film whipped up a frenzy of controversy and paved the way for the "New Hollywood" of the 70s.
For Lester D. Friedman, Bonnie and Clyde is a pivotal film that reflected and contributed to the profound change in American values in the 60s and 70s. After detailing how Penn, who was specially interviewed for the book, Beatty, and writers David Newman and Robert Benton brought the film to the screen (in the face of studio hostility), Friedman explores its revolutionary treatment of youth, fashion, crime and authority.]]> 160958 3.96 25 6 3942512 0804422192 9780804422192 0 <![CDATA[Hollywood's image of the Jew]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3942512.Hollywood_s_image_of_the_Jew 0.0 0 160958 3.96 25 6 742670 0252071530 9780252071539 0 <![CDATA[American Jewish Filmmakers (2d ed.)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177922878m/742670.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/742670.American_Jewish_Filmmakers 0.0 0 The effects of the Holocaust linger, both in gripping dramatic form (Mazursky's Enemies, a Love Story) and in black comedy (Brooks's The Producers). In his trilogy consisting of Serpico, Prince of the City, and Q&A, Lumet focuses on the failure of society's institutions to deliver social justice. Woody Allen portrays urban life and family relationships (Manhattan and Hannah and Her Sisters), sometimes with a nostalgic twist (Radio Days).

This edition concludes with a newly written discussion of the careers of other prominent Jewish filmmakers such as Steven Spielberg, Barry Levinson, Brian Singer, and Darren Aronofsky.

]]> 32505 3.81 26 4 160958 3.96 25 6 742673 0252063015 9780252063015 0 <![CDATA[American-Jewish Filmmakers: Traditions and Trends]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177922880m/742673.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/742673.American_Jewish_Filmmakers_Traditions_and_Trends 0.0 0 32505 3.81 26 4 160958 3.96 25 6