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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While other kids played sports, Steven Spielberg was writing scripts and figuring out camera angles. He went from entertaining his Boy Scout troop with home movies to amazing audiences around the world with epic blockbusters. He has directed four of the most successful films of all time and has won two Academy Awards for Best Director. From Jaws to Lincoln, young readers and aspiring filmmakers will be fascinated by the life of this famous director"--...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
In this full-scale, in-depth biography of Steven Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work has been. With the same breadth of research and clarity of insight that characterized his acclaimed biography of Frank Capra, McBride has gone in search of the true Steven Spielberg, interviewing more than 325 of the director's friends and associates, many of...
6) The men who would be king: an almost epic tale of moguls, movies, and a company called Dreamworks
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
For sixty years, since the birth of United Artists, the studio landscape was unchanged. Then came Hollywood's Circus Maximus-created by director Steven Spielberg, billionaire David Geffen, and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who gave the world The Lion King-an entertainment empire called DreamWorks. Now Nicole LaPorte, who covered the company for Variety, goes behind the hype to reveal for the first time the delicious truth of what happened. Readers will feel...
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the director details his many films and describes how his unique and evocative gift for storytelling evolved from experiences in his own life, including his parents' divorce and his return to Judaism after his son was born.
10) Steven Spielberg
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the successful filmmaker who won an Oscar in 1995 for "Schindler's List."
Author
Publisher
Taylor Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Based on more than a half dozen interviews with the director himself, this unauthorized biography recounts Spielberg's childhood, education, career, philanthropic and charitable endeavors, and his extremely private personal life. This updated edition explores Spielberg's latest filmmaking efforts, from “Schindler's List” to “Men in Black 2”.
13) Steven Spielberg
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Explores the public and private lives of Steven Spielberg, who has combined popular storytelling with artistic creativity to become hailed as the most successful film director in the world.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
Description
The story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
19) Steven Spielberg
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the personal life and professional career of the successful motion picture producer and director Steven Spielberg.