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Frederick Wasser - Steven Spielberg´s America - 9780745640839 - V9780745640839
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Steven Spielberg´s America

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Description for Steven Spielberg´s America Paperback. Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America's most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. Series: Polity America Through the Lens Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
Steven Spielberg is known as the most powerful man in New Hollywood and a pioneer of the contemporary blockbuster, America’s most successful export. His career began a new chapter in mass culture. At the same time, American post war liberalism was breaking down. This fascinating new book explains the complex relationship between film and politics through the prism of an iconic filmmaker.

Spielberg’s early films were a triumphant emergence of the Sunbelt aesthetic that valued visceral kicks and basic emotions over the ambiguities of history. Such blockbusters have inspired much debate about their negative effect on politics and have ... Read more

This fresh and provocative take on Spielberg in the context of globalization, rampant market capitalism and the hardening socio-political landscape of the United States will be fascinating reading for students of film and for anyone interested in contemporary America and its culture.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Polity America Through the Lens Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745640839
SKU
V9780745640839
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Frederick Wasser
Frederick Wasser is an Associate Professor at the Department of Television and Radio, Brooklyn College-CUNY.

Reviews for Steven Spielberg´s America
"Steven Spielberg's America is a tour de force. Frederick Wasser deftly integrates cultural studies, social history, political economy, and reception studies to illuminate relationships between Spielberg and Hollywood, Spielberg's films and audiences, and globalization and America." Eileen Meehan, Southern Illinois University Carbondale "In varied writings, Frederick Wasser has established himself as a trenchant commentator on contemporary movies and ... Read more

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