Description:
Steven Spielberg's Children is the first book to investigate children, childhood, and Spielberg's employment of child actors together and in depth. Through lively readings of both the celebrated performances he elicits from his young stars as well as less discussed roles this book shows children to be key players in the director's articulation of childhood since the 1970s.
Review Quotes: "Steven Spielberg's Children examines modern Hollywood classics in detail and with nuance across themes that include the child's body, 'clever girls, ' and the war child, among other figures and motifs. Williams expands the usual cinematic investigations of Spielberg's cinema by underpinning the films with an expansive discussion on how childhood has been perceived across different historical periods and through different disciplinary agendas."--Timothy Corrigan "author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker"