Darkness in the bliss-out : a reconsideration of the films of Steven Spielberg / James Kendrick.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2014.
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 225 pages. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: Steven Spielberg and the politics of bliss
- I didn't want to see this: weekend America and its discontents
- In Close encounters of the third kind, E.T., and Poltergeist
- Americans fighting Americans: incoherence and animal comedy in 1941
- What exactly are we applauding? Indiana Jones and the ideologies of heroism and American exceptionalism
- Lost and done for: the rejection of war fantasies in Empire of the sun and War horse
- For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand: humanity and inhumanity in A.I Artificial Intelligence.