Steven Spielberg

A Biography, Second Edition

Joseph McBride

$115.95 $92.37

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

Availability Information

We source books from suppliers in Australia and overseas. For books we don't currently have in stock, the time it takes to get them from our suppliers can vary widely - from a few days to a few months - so we check each book with each supplier to determine the expected time it will take to be supplied to us.

We then advise you accordingly. If the time taken to get any book is too long for you, you can let us know and we will cancel or adjust your order, and refund as required.

To find out the anticipated arrival time for specific items prior to ordering, please contact us by phone or email:

Phone +61 2 9264 3111, or 1800 4 BOOKS (1800 4 26657) if outside Sydney:
option 1 Abbey's Bookshop (Crime, History, Science, Kids & more) • info@abbeys.com.au
option 2 Language Book Centre (ESL & Foreign Languages) • language@abbeys.com.au
option 3 Galaxy Bookshop (Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, Graphic Novels) • sf@galaxybooks.com.au

QTY:

English

University Press of Mississippi
31 January 2011

Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers; Biography: arts & entertainment

Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been.

This new edition adds four chapters to Spielberg's life story, chronicling his extraordinarily active and creative period from 1997 to the present, a period in which he has balanced his executive duties as one of the partners in the film studio DreamWorks SKG with a remarkable string of films as a director. Spielberg's ambitious recent work--including Amistad, Saving Private Ryan, A. I. Artifucial Intelligence, Minority Report, The Terminal and Munich--has continually expanded his range both stylistically and in terms of adventurous, often controversial, subject matter.

Steven Spielberg: A Biography brought about a reevaluation of the great filmmaker's life and work by those who viewed him as merely a facile entertainer. This new edition guides readers through the mature artistry of Spielberg's later period in which he manages, against considerable odds, to run a successful studio while maintaining and enlarging his high artistic standards as one of America's most thoughtful, sophisticated, and popular filmmakers.

By: Joseph McBride
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 45mm
Weight: 623g
ISBN: 9781604738360
ISBN 10: 1604738367
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 31 January 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jospeh McBride is a film historian and associate professor in Cinema at San Francisco State University.

Reviews for Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition

Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw. --New Times (Los Angeles) Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception. --Kirkus Reviews Shrewd and unsentimental. --Publishers Weekly ï¿½Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception.ï¿½ ï¿½ï¿½Kirkus Reviews ï¿½Shrewd and unsentimental.ï¿½ ï¿½Publishers Weekly ï¿½Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw.ï¿½ ï¿½New Times (Los Angeles) Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception. --Kirkus Reviews Shrewd and unsentimental. --Publishers Weekly Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw. --New Times (Los Angeles) -Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception.- --Kirkus Reviews -Shrewd and unsentimental.- --Publishers Weekly -Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw.- --New Times (Los Angeles) Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception. Kirkus Reviews Shrewd and unsentimental. Publishers Weekly Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw. New Times (Los Angeles) Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception. Kirkus Reviews Shrewd and unsentimental. Publishers Weekly Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw. New Times (Los Angeles) Film history at its best: rich in information, often dazzling in perception. -- Kirkus Reviews Shrewd and unsentimental. -- Publishers Weekly Compulsively readable. . . . This will get us as close to Spielberg as we can without being Kate Capshaw. -- New Times (Los Angeles)