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Cinema's most successful director is a commercial and cultural force demanding serious consideration. Not just triumphant marketing, this international popularity is partly a function of the movies themselves. Polarised critical attitudes largely overlook this, and evidence either unquestioning adulation or vilification& mdash;often vitriolic& mdash;for epitomising contemporary Hollywood. Detailed textual analyses reveal that alongside conventional commercial appeal, Spielberg's movies function consistently as a self-reflexive commentary on cinema. Rather than straightforwardly consumed realism or fantasy, they invite divergent readings and self-conscious spectatorship which contradict assumptions about their ideological tendencies. Exercising powerful emotional appeal, their ambiguities are profitably advantageous in maximising audiences and generating media attention.

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Book category Books in English The arts Film, TV & radio Films, cinema

• Full title: Cinema of Steven Spielberg
• Author: Nigel Morris
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9781904764885
• ISBN: 1904764886
• ID: 04317188
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Weight: 804 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 160 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. February 2007

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