Steven Spielberg: A Biography, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Joseph McBride

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 641
• Edition: 2nd
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS......Page 8
PROLOGUE: "CECIL B. DESPIELBERG"......Page 12
1 "HOW WONDROUS ARE THY WORKS"......Page 17
2 "MAZIK"......Page 36
3 "MESHUGGENEH"......Page 51
4 "A WIMP IN A WORLD OF JOCKS"......Page 67
5 "BIG SPIEL"......Page 95
6 "HELL ON EARTH"......Page 113
7 "A HELL OF A BIG BREAK"......Page 136
8 "THIS TREMENDOUS MEATGRINDER"......Page 168
9 "THE STEVEN SPIELBERG BUSINESS"
......Page 200
10 "A PRIMAL SCREA MOVIE"......Page 227
11 WATCH THE SKIES......Page 262
12 "REHAB"......Page 294
13 "ECSTACY AND GRIEF"......Page 324
14 "ADULT TRUTHS"......Page 360
15 "AN AWFULLY BIG ADVENTURE"......Page 380
16 MENSCH......Page 415
17 MOGUL AND DIRECTOR......Page 450
18 MAINSTREAM INDEPENDENT......Page 470
19 LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS......Page 488
20 "400-POUND GORILLA"......Page 506
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 534
NOTES ON SOURCES......Page 540
CHAPTER NOTES......Page 548
FlLMOGRAPHY AND VlDEOGRAPHY......Page 598
A......Page 609
B......Page 611
C......Page 613
D......Page 615
E......Page 617
F......Page 618
G......Page 619
H......Page 620
J......Page 622
K......Page 623
L......Page 624
M......Page 625
N......Page 627
O......Page 628
P......Page 629
R......Page 630
S......Page 631
T......Page 637
V......Page 639
W......Page 640
Z......Page 641