Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (Jewish Lives)

Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films (Jewish Lives)

<div><B>A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence on American popular culture is unprecedented</B><BR><br /> “Everything about me is in my films,” Steven Spielberg has said. Taking this as a key to understanding the hugely successful moviemaker, Molly Haskell explores the full range of Spielberg’s works for the light they shine upon the man himself. Through such powerhouse hits as <I>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</I>, <I>E.T</I>., <I>Jurassic Park</I>, and <I>Indiana Jones,</I> to lesser-known masterworks like <I>A.I.</I> and <I>Empire of the Sun,</I> to the haunting <I>Schindler’s List</I>, Haskell shows how Spielberg’s uniquely evocative filmmaking and story-telling reveal the many ways in which his life, work, and times are entwined.<BR>  <BR> Organizing chapters around specific films, the distinguished critic discusses how Spielberg’s childhood in non-Jewish suburbs, his parents’ traumatic divorce, his return to Judaism upon his son’s birth, and other events echo in his work. She offers a brilliant portrait of the extraordinary director—a fearful boy living through his imagination who grew into a man whose openness, generosity of spirit, and creativity have enchanted audiences for more than 40 years.</div>