Spielberg: A Retrospective

For more than four decades, Steven Spielberg has created inspiring, exciting and unforgettable movie magic. Jaws, E.T., the Indiana Jones series, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Schindler"s List, Saving Private Ryan and War Horse are among the many favourites that have thrilled cinema audiences all over the world. They are some of the highest-grossing, most captivating and enduring films of all time - contemporary classics that indelibly remain part of our lives. Steven Spielberg"s own story is itself the stuff of dreams. He was born in 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was an electrical engineer and his mother a restaurateur and concert pianist. In 1959, he made a mini-movie to earn his Boy Scout photography merit badge, an achievement that proved to be the catalyst for his future career. By the time Spielberg was a teenager, he was charging his friends admission to his home movies and won his first prize at the age of thirteen for a short war film. Soon he took to wandering the lot at Universal Studios, hoping not to get caught, and eventually was taken on there as an intern. The rest, as they say, is history. This timely retrospective celebrates more than forty years of Steven Spielberg"s boundless energy and his unwavering commitment to excellence in all areas of his work. The distinguished writer and critic Richard Schickel, himself a documentary filmmaker, provides unique insight on every one of Spielberg"s twenty-eight major movies to appraise such a remarkably prolific and varied career. Featuring many first-person observations drawn from Schickel"s interviews, as well as a personal foreword by the director himself, this is an insider"s perspective on Spielberg"s legendary achievements. Impeccably designed and illustrated with more than 400 superb images, many sourced specially from the Steven Spielberg Archive, this book is an essential companion to the art of making movies and an authoritative tribute to a Hollywood icon. With over 400 illustrations in colour and black and white. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Spielberg: A Retrospective