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The Jaws book : new perspectives on the classic summer blockbuster
- Title
- The Jaws book : new perspectives on the classic summer blockbuster / edited by I. Q. Hunter and Matthew Melia.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- xiv, 279 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- "A collection offering new research and insights into Steven Spielberg's classic thriller Jaws"--
- Subject
- Jaws (Motion picture : 1975)
- 1900-1999
- Thrillers (Motion pictures) > United States > History and criticism
- Action and adventure films > United States > History and criticism
- Horror films > United States > History and criticism
- Motion pictures > Production and direction > United States
- Motion pictures > United States > History > 20th century
- Action and adventure films
- Horror films
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures > Production and direction
- Thrillers (Motion pictures)
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 'She was the first' : the place of Jaws in American film history / Peter Krämer -- Not the first : myths of Jaws / Sheldon Hall -- Cutting to the chase : editing Jaws / Warren Buckland -- 'The shark is not working' -- but the music is : scoring a hit with Jaws / Emilio Audissino -- In the teeth of criticism : forty-five years of Jaws / Nigel Morris -- Jaws, in theory / Murray Pomerance -- Jaws as Jewish / Nathan Abrams -- Children as bait / Linda Ruth Williams -- Reflexive epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park / Robert Geal -- 'We delivered the bomb' : on Jaws, guilt, and the atomic myth / Matthew Leggatt -- The way home : shifting perspectives in Jaws / Daniel Varndell -- Relocating the Western in Jaws / Matthew Melia -- 'Just when you thought it was safe ... ' : the Jaws sequels / Kathleen Loock -- Martha's Vineyard revisited : the making-ofs and their narrative strategies / Felix Lempp -- Ben Gardner's head is missing : notes on Jaws : the sharksploitation edit / Neil Jackson -- Live every week like it's shark week : Jaws and natural history documentary / Vincent Campbell.
- Call Number
- MFLP (Jaws) 21-886
- ISBN
- 9781501347528
- 1501347527
- 9781501347542 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781501347535 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020009263
- OCLC
- 1133278815
- Title
- The Jaws book : new perspectives on the classic summer blockbuster / edited by I. Q. Hunter and Matthew Melia.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- ED: DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY. BASED ON PAPERS FROM A 2015 SYMPOSIUM.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Hunter, I. Q., 1964- editor.Melia, Matthew, editor.Gottlieb, Carl, writer of foreword.
- Research Call Number
- MFLP (Jaws) 21-886