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Steven Spielberg [2 volumes]: The Director and the Films (Modern Filmmakers)
Steven Spielberg The Director and the Films - 2 volumes - Modern Filmmakers Author:John H. Foote This entry in the Modern Filmmakers series offers a film-by-film encounter with a director who, for many, is the face of American cinema; a man who invented the summer blockbuster, then put his extraordinary command of film to work in stories of ever-richer complexity and humanity.All the highlights of Spielberg's career are here: the tel... more »evision work, including nail-biting Duel; the runaway success of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones series, the Oscar-nominated ET and The Color Purple, the stunning achievements of Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, and the rest of his wide-ranging canon of genre films, entertainments, and serious dramas. Throughout, Spielberg-scholar John Foote makes a compelling case that the director once pigeonholed as merely an entertainer is instead the most accomplished filmmaker working today.« less