TY - BOOK ID - 92752928 TI - Steven Spielberg : Hollywood WunderKind & Humanist AU - Achouche, Mehdi AU - Assouly, Julie AU - Charlery, Hélène AU - Chinita, Fátima AU - Courcoux, Charles-Antoine AU - Couté, Pascal AU - Gaudin, Antoine AU - Giansante, Rocco AU - Krämer, Peter AU - Lefait, Sébastien AU - Lipiner, Michael AU - Roche, David AU - Souladié, Vincent AU - Stubbs, Andrew AU - Upton, Julian PY - 2020 SN - 2367813582 2367812640 PB - Montpellier : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, DB - UniCat KW - Film Radio Television KW - cinéma américain KW - esthétique KW - éthique KW - Nouvel Hollywood KW - politique KW - Steven Spielberg KW - America cinema KW - Ethics KW - Aesthetics KW - New Hollywood KW - Politics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:92752928 AB - Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Wunderkind and Humanist focuses on the most commercialy successful American director of his generation, from his early career at Universal Television to the Oscar-winning Lincoln (2013). The fourteen chapters deal as much with his major hits as with films that have received little critical attention like The Sugarland Express (1974), 1941 (1979) and The Terminal (2004). They address questions of ethics, ideology and identity politics recognized as central to the director’s œuvre, while seeking to make up for the lack of material on the films’ formal qualities and on the notable contributions they have made to classical Hollywood genres such as horror, science fiction and the war movie. This book contests the idea that Spielberg is a “naïve” director, a mere craftsman with an eye for composition and a natural talent for narrative economy. Instead, the book aims to foreground the work’s cohesion, its influences and self-consciousness, its steadfast inscription within the Western humanist tradition, and its resolve to engage with the contemporary and explore complex ethical issues through mainstream narratives, whether “serious” Oscar contenders or action-filled popcorn blockbusters, a dichotomy Spielberg has increasingly sought to blur. ER -