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Steven Spielberg: A Biography. Second Edition Joseph McBride. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
Since the 1970s, Steven Spielberg has been one of the world's most prolific and popular film directors. Among his best known movies are Jaws (1975), E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Jurassic Park (1993), and Schindler's List (1993). Spielberg's movies have earned billions of dollars and numerous Academy Awards, and their success, in turn, has profoundly influenced the way Hollywood makes motion pictures. As Roger Ebert noted in the June 8, 1998 issue of Time: "Spielberg's most important contribution to modern movies is his insight that there was an enormous audience to be created if old-style B-movie stories were made with ?-level craftsmanship and enhanced with the latest developments in special effects."
Film historian Joseph McBride has been an admirer of Spielberg for almost 40 years. In this expanded and updated edition of his Steven Spielberg: A Biography, he explains that he "became aware...