Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2670996 in Books
• Published on: 1997
• Format: Unabridged
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 15
• Binding: Audio Cassette

From Library Journal
David Hilder reads McBride's unauthorized biography of one of the world's primary director/producers (LJ 4/15/97), and he performs competently, using a level tone for every character and keeping the focus on Spielberg. McBride, well known in the movie industry for such works as Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (S. & S., 1993) and Orson Welles (LJ 6/15/96), details Spielberg's life from his childhood in Cincinnati, examining the artistry as well as the man. McBride includes numerous interviews and minute detail of the artistic development of Spielberg, promoting the image of the director as a serious artist who has been possessed by the idea of filmmaking since childhood. The accounts of filming Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with their never-before-attempted special effects, provide fascinating insider information. The sound quality here is excellent. This work will appeal to serious moviegoers who want to know every detail of Spielberg's life and career.?Nancy R. Ives, SUNY at Geneseo
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
In more pages than are necessary, Joseph McBride reduces the popular filmmaker to Freud 101. Spielberg fans will no doubt relish the gossipy details, whether or not they agree with the biographer's assessment of the man and his work. David Hilder reads appropriately at a brisk trot that skims the surface of prose requiring little else. He has a sharp, clear voice and excellent intonation. Just as McBride gets many incidental facts wrong, so Hilder gets a lot of pronunciations wrong, especially Jewish names and Yiddishisms. Both writer and narrator should be taken cum grano salus. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine