Nigel Andrews on Jaws: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide (Bloomsbury Movie Guide, 5) - Softcover

Andrews, Nigel

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9781582340425: Nigel Andrews on Jaws: A Bloomsbury Movie Guide (Bloomsbury Movie Guide, 5)

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ISBN 10: 1582340420 ISBN 13: 9781582340425

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, 1999

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The Bloomsbury Movie Guides feature scores of entries on all aspects of the making and meaning of movies. Each guide includes historic, cinematic, and literary references; profiles of actors and directors; and interviews.

Jaws, the epitome of suspenseful 1970s action-drama, was directed by Steven Spielberg. (Indeed, this is the film that put Spielberg on the map in Hollywood.) In these pages, Nigel Andrews provides a readable and meticulous critical analysis of a movie that has fascinated him for more than twenty years. He provides the reader with insightful behind-the-scenes stories about daily workings on the set, while also examining the importance of every actor/character and evaluating his or her contribution to the movie.

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"Bloomsbury's new Movie Guide series looks like being easily the best idea to have assaulted the cinema bookshelves. Exhaustive, affectionate, committed, intelligent, flip, provocative, and, above all, personal.... Having read them it's guaranteed that the next time you see either of these movies, something will have changed, and changed for good." --Uncut

About the Author:

Nigel Andrews is the film critic for the Finanical Times and the author of True: The Life and Times of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Travolta: The Life. After graduationg from Cambridge University he worked at the British Film Institute as an editor on the Cinema One book series and was frequent writer for Sight and Sound and the Monthly Film Bulletin.

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