Description
The first edited collection on Steven Spielberg's classic blockbuster that started a record-breaking franchise.
About the Author
Matthew Melia is a senior lecturer in film, television, and English literature at Kingston University, London, UK. He is editor of The Films of Ken Russell (2021), a contributor to The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021), and co-editor of The Jaws Book (Bloomsbury, 2020).
Reviews
Editor Matthew Melia and 16 enterprising colleagues dig deep into Steven Spielberg's pivotal masterpiece and reveal everything you want to know about Jurassic Park and the universe it established. Contributors of this work answer questions you never thought to ask about the movie's production, marketing, box-office success, franchising, fandom, ecopolitics, merchandising, and afterlives, as well as the representation of men, Jews, scientists, and dinosaurs. Required reading for every T-Rex, velociraptor, and their hosts of descendants and distant relatives. * Thomas Leitch, Kirkpatrick Chair of Writing, University of Delaware, USA *
The Jurassic Park Book is a timely, necessary collection for students and scholars about the enduring power of popular entertainment and its limitless capacity to imagine new worlds while critically and commercially shaping our own. From franchise expansion to ecohorror nightmare, Jurassic Park harnesses the scholarly vitality of blockbuster entertainment to spectacular effect; its legacy proves again that Steven Spielberg is the master storyteller of this age. Through insightful, original, and rigorous readings lensed through several interdisciplinary frameworks, including fan and marketing studies, 1990s masculine anxieties, ILM's radical advancement in creating digital lost worlds, and the franchise's adaptation to and beyond the screen, Matt Melia's superb collection joyously unveils the film's rich scholarly depth and why it still matters in blockbuster entertainment today. * Sorcha Ni Fhlainn, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and American Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781501384868
Author Matthew Melia
Format Hardback
Page Count 360
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic USA
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc