Steven Spielberg : a retrospective / Richard Schickel ; foreword by Steven Spielberg. by Schickel, Richard

Table of Contents: “…., the extra-terrestrial ; Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ; The color purple ; Empire of the sun ; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ; Always ; Hook ; Jurassic Park ; Schindler's list ; The lost world : Jurassic Park ; Amistad ; Saving Private Ryan ; A.I., artificial intelligence ; Minority report ; Catch me if you can ; The terminal ; War of the worlds ; Munich ; Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ; The adventures of Tintin : the secret of the unicorn ; War horse -- Fast forward.…”

Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin. by Hagelin, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Unmaking vulnerability -- Part I, The cinematic construction of vulnerability: The furies, the men, and the method: Cinematic languages of vulnerability -- Victimized, violent and damned: Identification and radical vulnerability in The deer hunter, Full metal jacket, and Casualties of war -- Part II, New vulnerability after The Cold War: The body at war: Sexual politics and resistant vulnerability in Saving Private Ryan and G.I. Jane -- Matthew Shepard's body and the politics of queer vulnerability in Boys don't cry and The Laramie Project -- Part III, Vulnerability beyond the body: The violated body after 9/11: Torture and the legacy of vulnerability in 24 and Battlestar Galactica -- Vulnerability by proxy: Deadwood and the future of television form -- Afterword: Female power and Tarantino's Basterds.…”

The historical epic and contemporary Hollywood : from Dances with wolves to Gladiator / James Russell. by Russell, James, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…A brief history of the historical epic -- The historical epic as a genre -- Definitions of the epic -- The economics of the roadshow epic -- Creative conditions after World War II -- Epics and audiences -- The Hollywood epic in decline -- Western and epics, 1970 to 1990 -- Constructing Dances with wolves -- Narrative, nostalgia and film history -- Critical and commercial response -- Spielberg, Hollywood and World War II -- Judaism and the origins of Schindler's list -- The Holocaust in Schindler's list -- Virtue in Schindler's list -- Spielberg and the baby boom -- The baby boom and American film culture -- Generations in Saving private Ryan -- The establishment of DreamWorks SKG -- The prince of Egypt and the epic tradition -- DreamWorks as promised land -- The epic at the millennium -- Gladiator and public entertainment -- The epic in the film marketplace -- Presenting The passion -- The power of The passion.…”

For reel : the real-life stories that inspired some of the most popular movies of all time / Harold Schechter & David Everitt. by Schechter, Harold

Table of Contents: “…Goodbar -- M -- The man who came to dinner -- Matinee -- Monsieur Verdoux -- On the waterfront -- The Philadelphia story -- A place in the sun -- Psycho -- Raiders of the lost ark -- Rampage -- The roaring twenties -- Rocky -- Rope -- Saturday night fever -- Saving Private Ryan -- Six degrees of separation -- Smooth talk -- State of grace -- The sting -- The sunshine boys -- Sweet smell of success -- To die for -- The warriors -- The wild geese -- The wild one.…”

Steven Spielberg and philosophy : we're gonna need a bigger book / edited by Dean A. Kowalski.

Table of Contents: “…Ebertz -- A Spielbergian ethics of the family in Saving Private Ryan and The Color Purple / Robert R. Clewis -- Human rights, human nature, and Amistad / David Baggett and Mark W. …”
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Cinema and popular geo-politics / edited by Marcus Power and Andrew Crampton.

Table of Contents: “…Shapiro -- Frames of reference on the geopolitical stage: Saving Private Ryan and the Second World War/Second Gulf War intertext / Andrew Crampton and Marcus Power -- Screening geopolitics: James Bond and the early Cold War films (1962-1967) / Klaus Dodds -- Confronting the geopolitical aesthetic: Fredric Jameson, The perfumed nightmare and the perilous place of third cinema / Deborah Dixon and Leo Zonn -- Palestinian 'roadblock movies' / Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi -- Inscribing the American body politic: Martin Sheen and two American decades / Simon Philpott and David Mutimer -- The frustrations of geopolitics and the pleasures of war: Behind enemy lines and American geopolitical culture / Gearoid O Tuathail -- Staging the border: national identity and the critical geopolitics of West German film / Inga Scharf.…”

The cinema of Steven Spielberg : empire of light / Nigel Morris. by Morris, Nigel, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The Extra-Terrestrial: turn on your love light -- Twilight Zone: The Movie: magic lantern man overshadowed -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: anything goes -- The Color Purple: sisters and brothers -- Empire of the Sun: shanghai showmanship -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: cut to the chase -- Always: light my fire -- Hook: an awfully big Pan(a)vision adventure -- Jurassic Park: another monster hit -- Schindler's List: darkness visible -- The Lost World: Jurassic Park: more digital manipulation -- Amistad: black and white in colour -- Saving Private Ryan: Hollywood on war -- A.I. Artificial Intelligence: eyes wide open -- Minority Report: through a glass, darkly -- Catch Me If You Can: captured on celluloid -- The Terminal: all that jazz -- War of the Worlds: rays in the mirror -- Munich: bitter fruit on the olive branch -- Audiences, subjectivity and pleasure.…”

Reel vulnerability : power, pain, and gender in contemporary American film and television / Sarah Hagelin. by Hagelin, Sarah

Table of Contents: “…The body at war : Sexual politics and resistant vulnerability in Saving Private Ryan and G.I. Jane ; Matthew Shepard's body and the politics of queer vulnerability in Boys Don't Cry and The Laramie Project -- Vulnerability beyond the body. …”
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Combat films : American realism, 1945-2010 / Steven Jay Rubin. by Rubin, Steven Jay, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The sand pebbles (20th Century-Fox, 1966) -- Patton (20th Century-Fox, 1970) -- Platoon (Orion Pictures, 1986) -- Gettysburg (New Line Cinema, 1993) -- War films in the 21st century. Saving Private Ryan (Paramount Pictures, 1998) -- Black hawk down (Sony Entertainment, 2001) -- The hurt locker (Summit Entertainment, 2009).…”

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Steven Spielberg and philosophy : we're gonna need a bigger book / edited by Dean A. Kowalski.

Table of Contents: “…Ebertz -- A Spielbergian ethics of the family in Saving private Ryan and The color purple / Robert R. Clewis -- Human rights, human nature, and Amistad / David Baggett, Mark W. …”

Steven Spielberg : a life in films / Molly Haskell. by Haskell, Molly

Table of Contents: “…., Poltergeist, and Twilight Zone -- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Color Purple -- Empire of the Sun -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Always, and Hook -- Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, and the Shoah Foundation -- Amistad and The Lost World : Jurassic Park Saving Private Ryan and A.I. -- Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can -- The Terminal, War of the Worlds, and Munich -- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Adventures of Tintin, and War Horse -- Lincoln and Bridge of Spies.…”

Repicturing the Second World War : representations in film and television / edited by Michael Paris.

Table of Contents: “…Youngblood -- Bomber Harris : raking through the ashes of the strategic air campaign against Germany / Mark Connelly -- Realism, historical truth, and the war film : the case of Saving Private Ryan / Toby Haggith -- Downfall and other endings : German film and Hitler's war after sixty years / Tony Barta.…”

The war body on screen / edited by Karen Randell and Sean Redmond.

Table of Contents: “…When planes fall out of the sky : the war body on screen / Sean Redmond -- The war body as screen of terror / Renuka Gusain -- A king(dom) for a stage : the war body in and as performance / Matthew Wagner -- Baghdad ER : subverting the mythic gaze upon the wounded and the dead / Linda Robertson -- They came back : war and changing national identity / Adele Parker -- Bleeding bodies and post-cold war politics : Saving private Ryan and the gender of vulnerability / Sarah Hagelin -- Welcome to hell, private Shakespeare : trench horror, Deathwatch, and the resignification of world war I / Karen Randell -- One nation invisible : unveiling the hidden war body on screen / H. …”

Visions of the Apocalypse : spectacles of destruction in American cinema / Wheeler Winston Dixon. by Dixon, Wheeler W., 1950-

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Psychoanalysis and film / edited and with an introduction by Glen O. Gabbard.

Table of Contents: “…Sklarew -- Over-exposure: Terry Zwigoff's Crumb / Eric Nuetzel -- Narrating desire and desiring narration: a psychoanalytic reading of The English patient / Diana Diamond --The remains of the day / Mechthild Zeul -- Deconstructing Dirty Harry: Clint Eastwood's undoing of the Hollywood myth of screen masculinity / Ronald Baker -- The thing from inner space: Titanic and Deep impact / Slavoj Zizek -- Chinatown / Noel Hess -- Saving Private Ryan's surplus repression / Krin Gabbard -- M (1931) / Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel -- Remembering and repeating in Eve's bayou / Kimberlyn Leary -- Watching voyeurs: Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960) / Andrea Sabbadini -- Egoyan's Exotica: where does the real horror reside? …”

A century of media, a century of war / Robin Andersen. by Andersen, Robin

Table of Contents: “…-- Oliver North : the war hero and the scandal -- Dover Air Force Base, press pools and the Panama invasion -- The first Persian Gulf war : the battle over access, video game imagery and smart bombs -- Trading the first amendment to defeat the "Vietnam syndrome" -- Consuming the Persian Gulf War : from baby incubators to patriot missiles -- CNN : 24 hours of war -- How the war was remembered : from Courage under fire to Saving Private Ryan -- Terrorism, censorship and patriotism : re-scripting victory culture -- From tragedy to war after 9/11 -- Black Hawk down : the new logics of war and representation -- The Iraq "reality" war : embeds and militainment -- The military-entertainment complex : permanent war and the digital spectacular -- Of smart weapons, civilian casualties and the crimes of war : the whole world (except the United States) is watching -- The "entertainer-in chief" and the Downing Street memos -- The unraveling : the ghost of Vietnam and the soldiers "over there."…”

Film Style and the World War II Combat Genre. by Bender, Stuart

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Nobody's perfect : writings from the New Yorker / Anthony Lane. by Lane, Anthony, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Truman show -- Out of sight -- Thief -- Saving private Ryan -- Halloween H20 -- Ronin -- Love is the devil -- Gods and monsters -- Celebrity -- Meet Joe Black -- Rushmore -- Thin red line -- Prince of Egypt -- Lock, stock and two smoking barrels -- Dreamlife of angels -- Mummy -- Phantom menace -- Notting Hill -- Bowfinger -- West Beirut -- Anywhere but here -- World is not enough -- Liberty Heights -- Talented Mr. …”

Now in theaters everywhere : a celebration of a certain kind of blockbuster / Kenneth Turan. by Turan, Kenneth

Table of Contents: “…Spectacle -- Batman begins -- Black hawk down -- Kingdom of heaven -- The lord of the rings: the fellowship of the ring -- The lord of the rings: the return of the king -- The matrix -- The mummy returns -- Saving private Ryan -- Spider-man 2 -- Star trek: first contact -- Starship troopers -- Vertical limit -- Volcano -- War of the worlds -- X2: X-men united -- Behind the scenes: Conan the barbarian.…”