The most successful film director in history, Cincinnati-born Steven Spielberg(b. 1946) began his big-screen career with the low-budget Sugerland Express in 1974. He had, by this time, earned some postive exposure for his direction of the 1971 TV-movie, Duel, in which Dennis Weaver is stalked by the driver (whose face is never seen) of a huge truck after a minor incident on the road. This was followed by the mega-hit Jaws (1975) and the science-fiction classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. He collaborated with George Lucas to create the Indiana Jones films, beginning with Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). A year later he produced his most popular hit, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), which the director still considers his masterpiece. Among his other films are: The Color Purple (1985), Jurrasic Park (1993) and its sequel The Lost World (1997), Empire of the Sun (1987), War of the Worlds (2005), Munich (2005) and his Academy Award winning Schindler's List (1994). Spielberg won his second Oscar for direction for Saving Private Ryan in 1999.

Books About Steven Spielberg and His Films

Citizen Spielberg, by Lester Friedman. Univ. of IL, 2006.

The Complete Spielberg, by Ian Freer. Virgin, 2001.

The Films of Steven Spielberg, by Douglas Brode. Carol, 1994.

The Films of Steven Spielberg: Critical Essays, ed. by Charles L. P. Silet. Scarecrow, 2002.

Spielberg: The Man, the Movies, the Mythology, by Frank Sanello. Taylor, 1996.

Steven Spielberg, by Donald R. Mott & Cheryl McAllister Saunders. Twayne, 1986.

Steven Spielberg, by George Perry. Thunder's Mouth, 1998.

Steven Spielberg: A Biography, by Joseph McBride. S&S, 1997.

Steven Spielberg: The Man, His Movies, and Their Meaning, by Philip M. Taylor; New Chapter by Daniel O'Brien. Continuum, 1999.

Steven Spielberg: The Unauthorised Biography, by John Baxter. HarperCollins, 1997, 1996.

Individual Films

Amistad

Amistad: "Give Us Free"-A Celebration of the Film by Steven Spielberg, essays by Steven Spielberg, Maya Angelou and Debbie Allen. Newmarket, 1998.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary, by Bob Balaban. 1977.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Letters to E.T. Putnam, 1983.

Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan: The Men, the Mission, the Movie. Newmarket, 1998.

Schindler's List

The Making of Schindler's List: Behind the Scenes of an Epic Film, by Francisek Palowski. Carol, 1998.

Oskar Schindler and His List: The Man the Book, the Film, the Holocaust and Its Survivors, edited by Thomas Fensch. Eriksson, 1995.

Schindler's List: Images of the Steven Spielberg Film, by David james. Newmarket, 2004.

Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List. ed. by Yosefa Loshitzky. IN Univ. Pr., 1997.

Twilight Zone (Producer)

Outrageous Conduct: Art, Ego and the Twilight Zone Case, by Stephen Fraser and Marc Green. Arbor, 1988.

Special Effects: Disaster at Twilight Zone-The Tragedy and the Trial, by Ron LaBrecque. Scribner, 1988.

Interviews

The Future of the Movies: Interviews with Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and George Lucas, by Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel. Andrews & McMeel, 1991.

Steven Spielberg: Interviews, edited by Lester D. Friedman & Brent Notbohm. Univ. Press of MI, 2000.

Miscellaneous

A Cinema of Lonliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, by Robert Phillip Kolker. Oxford, 1988.

The Directors--Steven Spielberg [DVD] Winstar, 2000.

People of the Century. S&S, 1999.

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