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The Jaws Book I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)

The Jaws Book By I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)

The Jaws Book by I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)

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The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster by I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)

After 45 years, Steven Spielbergs Jaws remains the definitive summer blockbuster, a cultural phenomenon with a fierce and dedicated fan base. The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster is an exciting illustrated collection of new critical essays that offers the first detailed and comprehensive overview of the films significant place in cinema history. Bringing together established and young scholars, the book includes contributions from leading international writers on popular cinema including Murray Pomerance, Peter Kramer, Sheldon Hall, Nigel Morris and Linda Ruth Williams, and covers such diverse topics as the films release, reception and canonicity; its representation of masculinity and children; the use of landscape and the ocean; its status as a western; sequels and fan-edits; and its galvanizing impact on the horror film, action movie and contemporary Hollywood itself.

The Jaws Book Reviews

An excellent variety of fascinating readings about a surprisingly complex film of the 1970s. The range of approaches is stimulating, accessible, and superbly thought out. Each essay increases our knowledge of Jaws from a variety of perspectives and heightens our understanding of the film. * Robert P. Kolker, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland, USA *
The Jaws Book is rich, insightful and comprehensive. It revisits this landmark film from an extremely wide range of perspectives, covering production, film style, genre, representation and reception. As a consequence, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of American popular cinema, as well as the impact and legacy of this enduring, ever-popular film * Kate Egan, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Northumbria University, UK *
45 years after its release, Steven Spielberg's Jaws continues to endlessly fascinate and function as a cornerstone for contemporary popular culture. Hunter and Melia's collection brings together an impressive group of scholars, who deftly debate and analyse Jaws in a series of original, insightful and highly readable essays. Distinguishing fact from myth, and scrutinizing details pertaining to its production, textual organisation and reception, The Jaws Book offers genuinely new perspectives on why the film continues to resonate. No doubt, it will appeal to everyone interested in the film, its director and the industrial, cultural and political cultures that produced it. * Yannis Tzioumakis, Reader in Film and Media Industries, University of Liverpool, UK *
This is a terrific collection of essays that genuinely brings new insight, and with a foreword provided by Jaws screenwriter and supporting actor Carl Gottlieb himself, The Jaws Book is highly recommended for any fan of Jaws, or for anyone with even a passing interest in this crucial moment in film history. * Cinema Retro Magazine *

About I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)

I.Q. Hunter is Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK, and the author of British Trash Cinema (2013), Cult Film as a Guide to Life (2016), editor of British Science Fiction Cinema (1999) and co-editor of British Comedy Cinema (2012) and The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History (2016). Matthew Melia is a Senior Lecturer in film and television at Kingston University, UK. His research interests include the work of Ken Russell, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Foreword Carl Gottlieb (Screenwriter of Jaws) Introduction I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) and Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part One: Production, Reception and Style 1. She Was the First: The Place of Jaws in American Film History Peter Kramer (De Montfort University, UK) 2. Not the First: Myths of Jaws Sheldon Hall (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 3. Cutting to the Chase: Editing Jaws Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 4. The Shark is Not Working But the Music Is: Scoring a Hit with Jaws Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton, UK) 5. In the Teeth of Criticism: Forty-Five Years of Jaws Nigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK) 6. Jaws, in Theory Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) Part Two: Interpretation 7. Jaws as Jewish Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK) 8. Children as Bait Linda Ruth Williams (Exeter University, UK) 9. Reflexive Epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park Robert Geal (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 10. We Delivered the Bomb: On Jaws, Guilt, and the Atomic Myth Matthew Leggatt (University of Winchester, UK) 11. The Way Home: Shifting Perspectives in Jaws Daniel Varndell (University of Winchester, UK) 12. Relocating the Western in Jaws Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part Three: Beyond Jaws 13. Just When You Thought It Was Safe...: The Jaws Sequels Kathleen Loock (Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany) 14. Marthas Vineyard Revisited: The Making-Ofs and Their Narrative Strategies Felix Lempp (University of Hamburg, Germany) 15. Ben Gardners Head is Missing: Notes on Jaws: The Sharksploitation Edit Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK) 16. Live Every Week Like Its Shark Week: Jaws and Natural History Documentary Vincent Campbell (University of Leicester, UK) Index

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NPB9781501347528
9781501347528
1501347527
The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster by I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)
I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2020-09-17
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