The cinema of Steven Spielberg : empire of light / by Morris, Nigel, 1955-

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Steven Spielberg and philosophy : we're gonna need a bigger book /

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Children in the films of Steven Spielberg /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Adrian Schober -- Spielberg and the kidult / Noel Brown -- Unconditional love, hysterical motherhood and the lost/possessed child: Steven Spielberg's something evil / Adrian Schober -- Ambiguous loss: the depiction of child abduction in Spielberg's early films / James Kendrick -- "I'll be right here!"…”

Steven Spielberg's style by stealth / by Mairata, James

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The color purple /

Table of Contents: “…: (In) Visibility in Steven Spielberg's The color purple (1985) /…”
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Narrating American gender and ethnic identities /

Table of Contents: “…Illustrating Letters to God: Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple Twenty-Five Years After /…”
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Alice Walker and the color purple : inside a modern American classic /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to "The color purple" (04:39) -- Characters and themes (04:12) -- Walker's grandparents (04:46) -- Themes in "The color purple" (02:54) -- Alice Walker's aunts and mother (02:52) -- Walker's early childhood and family (03:23) -- Cultural traditions of black women (03:54) -- Suppressed black expression (02:34) -- Alice Walker's literary experiences (02:54) -- Walker's voice (04:20) -- Treatment of blacks (03:16) -- Entertainment for blacks (03:23) -- Film version of "The color purple" (06:26) -- Director Steven Spielberg (02:60) -- Whoopi Goldberg (02:26) -- Scenes with Celie and Shug (02:57) -- Hope and justice themes (01:49).…”
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Orson Welles and the unfinished RKO projects : a postmodern perspective / by Rippy, Marguerite H., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Approaches to the unfinished Wellesian works -- Origins of the first-person singular : mercurial theatre on the air -- Classics for the masses : Dickens and Welles -- Exploiters in surroundings not healthy for a white man : primitivism and the identity detour -- R is for Real : documentary fiction in It's all true -- Wellesian legacies : what, if anything, do Mel Gibson, Stephen Colbert, and Steven Spielberg have in common?…”
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A thousand darknesses : lies and truth in Holocaust fiction / by Franklin, Ruth

Table of Contents: “…-- Child of Auschwitz / Imre Kertesz -- A story for you / Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg -- The ghost writer / Wolfgang Koeppen -- The effect of the real / W.G. …”
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Hospitality in American literature and culture : spaces, bodies, borders / by Manzanas Calvo, Ana Ma, Benito Sánchez, Jesús

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Hospitality Revisited -- Re-Placing Hospitality: (In)hospitable sites in American Literature -- Embodying Hospitality: Biopolitics and Capitalist Flows in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal and Stephen Frears's Dirty Pretty Things -- Cannibalistic Hospitality: Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer -- 'We the People of the International Hotel' and the Hotel State: Karen T. …”

Cinema After Deleuze / by Rushton, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Actual and Virtual, Past and Present: Last Year in Marienbad (1961)Chapter 8: Thought and Cinema; Eisenstein: A Shock to Thought; Godard: To Believe in this World; Belief in this World; Chapter 9: Cinema After Deleuze (I): The Persistence of the Movement-Image; Steven Spielberg: Echoes of the Large Form; Martin Scorsese: Picking up the Pieces of the Small Form; Luc Besson: The Cinéma du Look or the Spectacle-Image; Chapter 10: Cinema After Deleuze (II): Recent Elements of the Time-Image; Lars von Trier: A Cinema Against Ethics; Wong Kar-Wai: The Floating-Image.…”
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Gettin' around : jazz, script, transnationalism / by Grandt, Jürgen E., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…"Good Morning, Heartache" Sound, Script, and Improvisation in Paule Marshall's The Fisher King and Steven Spielberg's The Terminal; Conclusion. Jürg Wickihalder Gets Around; Notes; Bibliography…”
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The warrior's camera : the cinema of Akira Kurosawa / by Prince, Stephen, 1955-

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Citizen Spielberg / by Friedman, Lester D.

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American history and contemporary Hollywood film / by McCrisken, Trevor, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Lessons from Hollywood's American Revolution: Revolution -- The Patriot -- 2 Rattlig the chains of history: Steven Spielberg's Amistad and 'telling everyone's story': Roots -- Amistad -- 3 Hollywood's Civil War dilemma: to imagine or unrael the nation?…”
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Jurassic park / by Bullock, Paul

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How did Lubitsch do it? / by McBride, Joseph, 1947-

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Contemporary American science fiction film /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The fears and fantasies of science fiction film : genre as cultural artefact / Terence McSweeney and Stuart Joy -- A tale as old as time : Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial intelligence (2001) / Christine Muller -- Through the lens of 9/11 : reflections of Bush era politics and the post-9/11 milieu in Minority report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) / Fran Pheasant Kelly -- Precarious lives, human rights and "the sense of today" : the continuing resonance and relevance of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men (2006) / Terence McSweeney -- Seeing and touching the bodies of others : evolving the male animal toward secular moral enlightenment in the Planet of the apes reboot franchise / Carol Donelan -- Time travel, trauma and the futility of revenge in Looper (2012) / Stuart Joy -- Science fiction cinema between arthouse and blockbuster : from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) / Steffen Hantke -- 21st-century Star wars : profiles in (female) courage / Stacey Peebles -- Rationality, emotionality and geopolitics in Arrival (2016) : from structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to 'quality' status / Geoff King -- "The world is built on a wall" : deconstructing Blade runner 2049 (2017) / Will Brooker -- Speculative anger and collective economic strength in Boots Riley's Sorry to bother you (2018) / Paul Petrovic -- Coping with the deconstruction of American identity : hybridization and self-destruction in Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) / Andrew Schopp -- Wakanda forever? …”

Screening Auschwitz : Wanda Jakubowska's The last stage and the politics of commemoration / by Haltof, Marek

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