A Critical Companion to
Steven Spielberg

Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors

Series Editors:

Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna


Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors covers many directors who have not been studied previously in academic publications and whose works nonetheless are highly renowned nowadays. The intent of the series is to offer interesting and illuminating interpretations of the various directors’ films that will be accessible to both scholars of the academic community and critically minded fans of the directors’ works. Each volume combines discussions of a director’s oeuvre from a broad range of disciplines and methodologies, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of the directors’ works. The volumes will be of interest for students and scholars engaged in subjects as diverse as film studies, literature, philosophy, popular culture studies, religion, and others. We welcome proposals for both monographs and edited collections that offer interdisciplinary analyses, focusing on the complete oeuvre of one contemporary director per volume.

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A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg, Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

A Critical Companion to
Steven Spielberg

Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna





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Names: Barkman, Adam, editor. | Sanna, Antonio, editor.

Title: A critical companion to Steven Spielberg / edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna.

Description: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019] | Series: Critical companions to contemporary directors | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: "This comprehensive, up-to-date analysis of all the works of Steven Spielberg is written by some of the top scholars working in fields ranging from philosophy and art to history and film studies. The chapters illuminate for scholars and fans the entire artistic career of Steven Spielberg"-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019019938 (print) | LCCN 2019980924 (ebook) | ISBN 9781498593595 (cloth) | ISBN 9781498593601 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Spielberg, Steven, 1946---Criticism and interpretation.

Classification: LCC PN1998.3.S65 C75 2019 (print) | LCC PN1998.3.S65 (ebook) | DDC 791.4302/33092--dc23

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Adam:


To Logan—

May you stand firm under the aegis of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful

and ever-seek, as Indy would have it, the Grail that brings life


Antonio:


To Francesca Arca, Aurora Bayslak,

Eva Falqui, Elisabetta Miele, Sandra Sirotti, Veronica Dessì,

and all those child-like adults who still dream while looking at the stars