A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented "Everything about me is in my films," Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker,…
A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
"Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, helping to create countless films before his retirement in the mid-1990s. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood, including …
"Jerry Ziesmer was an assistant director for over thirty years, helping to create countless films before his retirement in the mid-1990s. He has worked with some of Hollywood's biggest directors and its biggest stars. In this memoir, he recounts his time in Hollywood, including …
Voice-Over: Violent Serene (A Novel-Essay) is an intertextual study, in narrative form, of the intimate relations between persons and such cultural objects as written and filmic works. Crossing the genres of fiction, memoir, and textual analysis, this work explores how queer fir…
Detailed textual analysis of films from Spielberg's entire career reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, his movies function as a self-reflexive, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological t…
Detailed textual analysis of films from Spielberg's entire career reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, his movies function as a self-reflexive, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological t…
