Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster

by Warren Buckland

Book Overview

Although the blockbuster is the most popular and commercially successful type of filmmaking, it has yet to be studied seriously from a formalist standpoint. This is in opposition to classical Hollywood cinema and International Art cinema, whose form has been analyzed and deconstructed in great detail. Directed By Steven Spielberg fills this gap by examining the distinctive form of the blockbuster. The book focuses on Spielberg's blockbusters, because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826416918
• ISBN13: 9780826416919
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 8.9"