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The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster de I. Q. Hunter

The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster

Editat de I. Q. Hunter, Matthew Melia
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2020
After 45 years, Steven Spielberg's Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the film's significant place in cinema history. Bringing together established and young scholars, the book includes contributions from leading international writers on popular cinema including Murray Pomerance, Peter Krämer, Sheldon Hall, Nigel Morris and Linda Ruth Williams, and covers such diverse topics as the film's release, reception and canonicity; its representation of masculinity and children; the use of landscape and the ocean; its status as a western; sequels and fan-edits; and its galvanizing impact on the horror film, action movie and contemporary Hollywood itself.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501347528
ISBN-10: 1501347527
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 29 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

With contributions from some of the leading scholars of popular American cinema, the book is on the cutting edge of a new and more sympathetic interest in the world's most successful director

Notă biografică

I.Q. Hunter is Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK, and the author of British Trash Cinema (2013), Cult Film as a Guide to Life (2016), editor of British Science Fiction Cinema (1999) and co-editor of British Comedy Cinema (2012) and The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History (2016).Matthew Melia is a Senior Lecturer in film and television at Kingston University, UK. His research interests include the work of Ken Russell, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.

Cuprins

List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgements ForewordCarl Gottlieb (Screenwriter of Jaws) IntroductionI.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) and Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part One: Production, Reception and Style1. 'She Was the First': The Place of Jaws in American Film HistoryPeter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK) 2. Not the First: Myths of JawsSheldon Hall (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 3. Cutting to the Chase: Editing Jaws Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 4. 'The Shark is Not Working' - But the Music Is: Scoring a Hit with Jaws Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton, UK) 5. In the Teeth of Criticism: Forty-Five Years of JawsNigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK) 6. Jaws, in TheoryMurray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) Part Two: Interpretation 7. Jaws as JewishNathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK) 8. Children as BaitLinda Ruth Williams (Exeter University, UK) 9. Reflexive Epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park Robert Geal (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 10. 'We Delivered the Bomb': On Jaws, Guilt, and the Atomic MythMatthew Leggatt (University of Winchester, UK) 11. The Way Home: Shifting Perspectives in Jaws Daniel Varndell (University of Winchester, UK) 12. Relocating the Western in JawsMatthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part Three: Beyond Jaws13. 'Just When You Thought It Was Safe...': The Jaws SequelsKathleen Loock (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. Martha's Vineyard Revisited: The Making-Ofs and Their Narrative StrategiesFelix Lempp (University of Hamburg, Germany) 15. Ben Gardner's Head is Missing: Notes on Jaws: The Sharksploitation EditNeil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK) 16. Live Every Week Like It's Shark Week: Jaws and Natural History DocumentaryVincent Campbell (University of Leicester, UK) Index

Recenzii

An excellent variety of fascinating readings about a surprisingly complex film of the 1970s. The range of approaches is stimulating, accessible, and superbly thought out. Each essay increases our knowledge of Jaws from a variety of perspectives and heightens our understanding of the film.
The Jaws Book is rich, insightful and comprehensive. It revisits this landmark film from an extremely wide range of perspectives, covering production, film style, genre, representation and reception. As a consequence, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American popular cinema, as well as the impact and legacy of this enduring, ever-popular film
45 years after its release, Steven Spielberg's Jaws continues to endlessly fascinate and function as a cornerstone for contemporary popular culture. Hunter and Melia's collection brings together an impressive group of scholars, who deftly debate and analyse Jaws in a series of original, insightful and highly readable essays. Distinguishing fact from myth, and scrutinizing details pertaining to its production, textual organisation and reception, The Jaws Book offers genuinely new perspectives on why the film continues to resonate. No doubt, it will appeal to everyone interested in the film, its director and the industrial, cultural and political cultures that produced it.
This is a terrific collection of essays that genuinely brings new insight, and with a foreword provided by Jaws' screenwriter and supporting actor Carl Gottlieb himself, The Jaws Book is highly recommended for any fan of Jaws, or for anyone with even a passing interest in this crucial moment in film history.