Almost everything you need to know in one essential guide.

          At the pinnacle of his career and entering his fourth decade as a director, Steven Spielberg is firmly established as the world’s most popular film-maker. Celebrated for his mastery of spectacle and fantasy he has, more recently, proven his skill as a craftsman of compelling populist drama. He is an icon of late twentieth century popular culture.

          From the thrills an zestful adventure of Jaws and the unflinching recreation of Auschwitz in Schindler’s List, to the tender idealism of ET and the sombre hymn to brotherhood of Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg takes his audience on new journeys, to places often unknown to the eye but always familiar and recognisable to the heart.

          With Al, Minority Report and Catch Me If You Can, he continues to invest powerful emotion into familiar genres. Thirty years since his first theatrically released movie The Sugarland Express, Spielberg returns with the romantic comedy drama The Terminal. This book examines each of his films and includes a career overview of a singular director whose work has transcended its origin to become the cinematic vision for a generation of moviegoers.