Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg by Kendrick, James

Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441146045)

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Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg by Kendrick, James

Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg

$40.95
Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg by Kendrick, James

Darkness in the Bliss-Out: A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see it as essentially optimistic, reassuring, and conservative. James Kendrick takes an alternate view of Spielberg's cinema and proposes that his films-even the most popular ones that seem to trade in easy answers and comforting, reassuring notions of cohesion and narrative resolution-are significantly darker and more emotionally and ideologically complex than they are routinely given credit for.

Darkness in the Bliss-Out demonstrates, through close analysis of a wide range of Spielberg's films, that they are only reassuring on the surface, and that their depths embody a complex and sometimes contradictory view of the human condition.

Author: James Kendrick
ISBN-10: 1441146040
ISBN-13: 9781441146045
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2014
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 617
By James Kendrick
By James Kendrick
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James Kendrick is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at Baylor University, USA. He is the author of Hollywood Bloodshed: Violence in 1980s American Cinema (2009) and Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre (2009), as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles. He is also the film and video critic for QNetwork.com.

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