STEVEN SPIELBERG: INTERVIEWS, REVISED AND UPDATED

Steven Spielberg: Interviews, Revised and Updated (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)by Brent Notbohm (Editor), Lester D. Friedman (Editor) – August 1, 2019More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b. 1946) continues to be a household name whose influence on popular culture extends far beyond the movie screen. Now in his seventies, Spielberg shows no intention of retiring from directing or even slowing down. Since the publication of Steven Spielberg: Interviews in 2000, the filmmaker has crafted some of the most complex movies of his extensive career.His new movies consistently reinvigorate entrenched genres, adding density and depth. Many of the defining characters, motifs, tropes, and themes that emerge in Spielberg’s earliest movies shape these later works as well, but often in new configurations that probe deeper into more complicated subjects―dangerous technology rather than man-eating sharks, homicidal rather than cuddly aliens, lethal terr