Until the first edition of Steven Spielberg: A Biography was published in 1997, much about Spielberg's personality and the forces that shaped it had remained enigmatic, in large part because of his tendency to obscure and mythologize his own past. But in this first full-scale, in-depth biography of Spielberg, Joseph McBride reveals hidden dimensions of the filmmaker's personality and shows how deeply personal even his most commercial work

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Steven Spielberg has directed films that have captured the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of viewers, including 'ET' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Several of his films, including 'Schindler's List', 'Amistad', and 'Saving Private Ryan', have brought historic events to the screen. In 1994, Spielberg established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to record survivors' and witnesses' testimonies of the Holocaust....

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.

Organized chronologically and covering every short film, television episode, and blockbuster movie that Steven Spielberg has ever directed, Steven Spielberg All the Films draws upon years of research to tell the behind-the-scenes stories of how each project was conceived, cast, and produced; from the creation of the costumes to the search for perfect locations; details about Spielberg's work with longtime collaborators like George Lucas, producer...