David Roche (ed.), Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind & Humanist

Echeverría Domingo, Julia (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: References David Roche (ed.), Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind & Humanist (Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018), 348 p, ISBN 978-2367812649. This collective work provides an engaging and deeply respectful approach to Steven Spielberg, one of the most commercially successful and at the same time critically despised filmmakers of his time. As its editor David Roche acknowledges in his introduction, he himself was reluctant at first to deal with a filmmaker who is recognized for his emotional manipulation and popcorn blockbusters (11). This initial reticence, which is probably common to many other scholars, is soon dispelled by a thought-provoking collection of essays that situate Spielberg not just as a studio director in the classical sense but also as a gifted auteur. The book’s—mostly—European contributors, the majority of whom belong to French universities, bring to mind the similar endeavor that the 1950s French critics of Cahiers du cinéma undertook with some of the most popular entertainment directors of the time...

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.4000/miranda.14731

Año: 2018

Publicado en: Film Journal 17 (2018), [5 pp.]
ISSN: 2556-4161

Tipo y forma: (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)