*Contents*
Acknowledgements
Introduction
David Roche
/Spielberg’s Early Career/
Chapter 1 Stuck Behind the Truck: Spielberg’s Early Television Work
and the Shadow of /Duel/
Julian Upton
Chapter 2 Spiritual Science Fiction for the Whole Family: Spielberg,
/Close Encounters of the Third Kind/ and 1970s Hollywood
Peter Krämer
/The Poetics of Steven Spielberg/
Chapter 3 Cinematographic Space as a Material and the American
Territory as a Subject: /Duel/ and /The Sugarland Express/
Antoine Gaudin
Chapter 4 /1941/: Spielberg and the Energy of Chaos
Vincent Souladié
Chapter 5 Spielberg’s Poetics of Horror
David Roche
/Spielberg, Genre & Creation/
Chapter 6 From /E.T./ to /A.I./: The Evolution of Spielberg’s Science
Fiction Fairy Tales
Mehdi Achouche
Chapter 7 Creation as Recreation: Steven Spielberg and the Remake
Andrew Stubbs
Chapter 8 Redefining Melodrama: /Saving Private Ryan/ as Male Weepie
Fátima Chinita
/Spielberg & Identity Politics/
Chapter 9 The Thematic and Visual Treatment of Race Relations in /The
Color Purple/ and/ Lincoln/
Hélène Charlery
Chapter 10 Movie Mensch: An Exploration of Steven Spielberg’s
Universalist Jewish-American Identity
Michael Lipiner and Rocco Giansante
Chapter 11 To Be or Not to Be (Born): The Spielbergian Hero and the
Uterine Challenges of the Digital Revolution (/Minority Report/, /The
Terminal/, /Munich/)
Charles-Antoine Courcoux
/Spielberg, Ethics & Ideology/
Chapter 12 Spielberg Meets Rockwell: Nostalgia and the Celebration of
America’s Heroic Past
Julie Assouly
Chapter 13 The Viktor Navorski Show: Surveillance, Paranoia and
Reality TV in /The Terminal/
Sébastien Lefait
Chapter 14 The Becoming Human of the Inhuman: On /Saving Private
Ryan/ and /Minority Report/
Pascal Couté
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index
Contributors
