Steven Spielberg: the unauthorised biography

✍ Scribed by Steven Spielberg;Baxter, John

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers;Trafalgar Square
• Year: 2013;1998
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

First published in 1996 and now available as an ebook. Please note that this edition does not include illustrations.

Steven Spielberg dominated the cinema of the nineties. He is one of the screen's greatest enchanters, with a spellbinding capacity -- and a box-office record -- matched by very few.

His power now exceeds that of the greatest moguls of Hollywood's golden era, and films like 'Jaws, ET, Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'Jurassic Park' have been seen by billions around the world, and have changed forever the way movies are made. How was it that this 'movie brat', from an unhappy and rootless adolescence on the fringes of American society, became one of the most formidable players on the global entertainment scene?.

From 'Duel', which suggested the innate 'film sense' Spielberg would bring to movie-making, to the Oscar-winning 'Schindler's List 'and beyond...

✦ Subjects

Steven Spielberg -- Biography -- Cinema