Steven Spielberg

by Joseph McBride

  Corliss, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Corman, Roger, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cornish, Joe, 1

  Costa-Gavras, 1

  Cowboys, The, 1

  Cowie, George, 1

  Cradle Will Rock, The, 1

  Craig, Daniel, 1

  Crapper, Thomas, 1

  Crawford, Joan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Crawley, Tony, 1n, 2

  Creative Artists Agency (CAA), 1, 2, 3

  Creative Management Associates (CMA), 1n, 2, 3, 4n

  Creature from the Black Lagoon, The, 1, 2n

  Cresson, James, 1, 2n

  Crichton, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Crone, J. Kenneth, 1

  Crossing Delancey, 1

  Crothers, Scatman, 1, 2

  Crowe, Cameron, 1

  Cruise, Tom, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cukor, George, 1, 2

  Culpepper Cattle Company, The, 1

  Cummins, Edith, 1, 2

  Cummins, Norman, 1

  Curtiz, Michael, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Cutler, Cissy, 1

  Dad, 1

  Dagan, Ezra, 1

  D’Agostino, Lea Purwin, 1

  Daily Variety, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

  Daly, Robert “Bob,” 1

  Damon, Matt, 1, 2

  Danner, Blythe, 1, 2

  Dante, Joe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  Darabont, Frank, 1, 2

  Darfur, 1

  Darin, Bobby, 1

  Darling, Joan, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Daviau, Allen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7n, 8 cinematography of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Davidtz, Embeth, 1

  Davies, Jeremy, 1

  Davis, Bette, 1

  Davis, Ossie, 1

  Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier, 1, 2

  Day for Night, 1

  Day in the Life of Thunder, A, 1

  Day of the Jackal, The, 1

  Day of the Locust, The (West), 1

  Day the Earth Stood Still, The, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dead of Night, 1, 2

  Dean, James, 1

  Death Becomes Her, 1

  Declaration of Independence, 1

  Dee, Ruby, 1

  Deep Impact, 1, 2

  Deese, Frank, 1

  DeFreeze, Donald, 1

  Del Favero, Anastasia, 1

  DeMille, Cecil B., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, 1

  Democratic National Committee, 1

  Denby, David, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  De Niro, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dennis, Sandy, 1

  Dent, Ila Faye, 1, 2, 3

  Dent, Robert Samuel “Bobby,” 1, 2, 3, 4

  De Palma, Brian, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Depardieu, Gerard, 1

  Deppe, Phil, 1

  Depression, Great, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Dern, Laura, 1, 2

  Der Spiegel, 1, 2

  Deschanel, Caleb, 1

  Deutsche Emailwaren Fabrik, 1

  Devlin, Charles F. “Cholly,” 1, 2, 3n

  Devlin, Mary, 1, 2, 3

  DiCaprio, Leonardo, 1

  DiCenzo, George, 1n

  Di Cicco, Bobby, 1, 2

  Dick, Philip K., 1

  Dickens, Charles, 1, 2

  Didion, Joan, 1

  Dietz, Tim, 1

  Diller, Barry, 1, 2, 3

  Dillon, Melinda, 1, 2, 3

  dîner de cons, Le, 1

  Dinner for Schmucks, 1

  Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (Buckland), 1

  Directors Guild of America (DGA), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Disney, Walt, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  Disneyland, 1, 2, 3

  Disneyland (TV series), 1

  Disturbia, 1

  Dog Day Afternoon, 1n

  Donen, Stanley, 1

  Donlevy, Brian, 1

  Donnelly, Thomas A., 1

  Donner, Richard, 1, 2

  Don Winslow of the Coast Guard, 1

  Don Winslow of the Navy, 1

  Doody, Alison, 1

  Doubleday, 1

  Douglas, Kirk, 1

  Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1, 2

  Dragnet, 1, 2, 3n

  Drake, Thomas Y., 1

  Dreamgirls, 1

  Dreams, 1

  Dream Team, The: The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks (Kimmel), 1, 2

  DreamWorks Animation, 1, 2

  DreamWorks SKG, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 breakthrough as a major Hollywood player of, 1

  creative breakthrough through animated films of, 1

  distribution-financing deal with Walt Disney Company, 1

  downsizing of, 1, 2

  early organization of, 1

  failed Playa Vista studio plans of, 1

  financial problems of, 1

  first films of, 1

  indistinct identity of, 1

  independence surrendered by, 1

  negotiations with Universal by, 1, 2, 3

  Paramount’s purchase of, 1

  partnership with Reliance Big Entertainment by, 1

  Spielberg’s ambivalent relationship with, 1, 2, 3, 4

  troubled relationship with Paramount of, 1

  Dreyfuss, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4n in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  in Jaws, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n

  as Spielberg’s alter ego, 1, 2, 3

  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dubus, Andre, III, 1

  Duel, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n, 11n, 12n, 13, 14 casting of, 1, 2

  reviews of, 1, 2, 3

  Duffey, Bill, 1

  Dumbo, 1

  Dunne, Irene, 1, 2

  Dunne, John Gregory, 1

  Duvall, Robert, 1

  Dwan, Allan, 1

  Dworkin, Susan, 1

  Earthquake, 1

  Eastwood, Clint, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Easy Rider, 1, 2

  Eberhardt, Thom, 1

  Ebert, Roger, 1, 2

  Ebner, Al, 1

  Echo of Lions (Chase-Riboud), 1, 2

  Eckstein, George, 1, 2

  Edelstein, David, 1

  Ed Sullivan Show, The, 1

  Edwards, Blake, 1n, 2

  Edwards, Cliff “Ukelele Ike,” 1

  Edwards, John, 1

  Ehrenstein, David, 1

  Einstein, Albert, 1

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Ike), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Eisenstein, Sergei, 1

  Eisner, Michael D., 1, 2

  Ejiofor, Chiwetel, 1

  Electronic Motion Control System, 1

  Elizabeth II, Queen of England, 1, 2

  Eller, Claudia, 1

  Elliott, E. T., 1

  Ellis, Richard, 1

  Ellison, Ralph, 1, 2

  EMI, 1n

  Emmy Awards, 1

  Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg (Gordon), 1

  Empire of Their Own, An: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (Gabler), 1

  Empire of the Sun, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 autobiographical elements in, 1, 2, 3, 4

  casting of, 1, 2, 3

  cinematography of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  public and critical response to, 1, 2, 3

  screenplay of, 1

  Empire of the Sun (Ballard), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Empire Strikes Back, The, 1, 2, 3

  Encounter, 1

  End of Cinema as We Know It, The: American Film in the Nineties (Lewis), 1

  Enemy of the People, An (Ibsen), 1

  Enrico, Robert, 1

  Entertainment Weekly, 1

  Epstein, Carolyn, 1

  Epstein, Jon, 1

  ER, 1n, 2, 3, 4

  Erman, John, 1

  Ernest, Roger, 1, 2, 3

  Esca
pe to Nowhere, 1, 2, 3

  Esquire, 1

  E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet (Kotzwinkle), 1

  E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 autobiographical content of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  box-office record of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  cinematography and lighting of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  commercial exploitation of, 1, 2

  Elliott in, 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5n, 6, 7

  E.T. in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  filming of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  financing and production of, 1, 2, 3

  Oscars won by, 1

  public and critical response to, 1, 2, 3, 4

  screenplay of, 1, 2n, 3, 4

  special effects in, 1

  spiritual dimension of, 1, 2

  E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial in His Adventure on Earth (Kotzwinkle), 1

  E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial Storybook (Kotzwinkle), 1

  “E.T. II: Nocturnal Fears” (Spielberg and Mathison), 1

  E.T.—You’re More than a Movie Star (Millar), 1

  EuroTrip, 1

  Everlasting Piece, A, 1

  Execution of Private Slovik, The, 1

  Exorcist, The, 1, 2, 3

  Exorcist, The (Blatty), 1

  “Experiences” (Spielberg), 1

  Faces, 1

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 1

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 1, 2

  Fakhran, Anoushirvan D., 1

  Falcon, The, 1

  Falk, Peter, 1, 2

  Fangoria, see Baker, Chris

  Fanning, Dakota, 1, 2

  Fantasia, 1, 2

  Fantastic Voyage, 1

  Farber, Stephen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Fargo, Jim, 1

  Farmer, Herb, 1

  Far Pavilions, The, 1

  Farrow, Mia, 1

  “Father Runs from It, A” (Sheehan), 1

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Feitshans, Buzz, 1

  Fellini, Federico, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  feminism, 1, 2, 3

  Fenton, Mike, 1

  Ferrin, Ralph, 1

  Festival de Cinema Fantastique, 1

  Fiedler, Leslie, 1

  Field, Sally, 1n

  Field of Honor, A, 1

  Fields, Bertram, 1

  Fields, Freddie, 1n

  Fields, Verna, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Fields, W. C., 1

  Fiennes, Ralph, 1

  Fifties, The (Halberstam), 1

  Fighter Squad, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Film Comment, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Film Foundation, 1

  film noir, 1, 2

  film schools, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Films of Joan Crawford, The (Quirk), 1

  Films of John Cassavetes, The (Carney), 1

  Finnell, Michael, 1, 2, 3

  Firelight, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 14 cast and crew of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  filming of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  music and soundtrack of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  premiere of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6

  screenplay of, 1, 2, 3

  visual style of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Fire Next Time, The (Baldwin), 1

  Fisher, Carrie, 1, 2

  Fisher, Lucy, 1, 2

  Fiskin, Jeffrey, 1

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 1

  Flags of Our Fathers, 1

  Flags of Our Fathers (Bradley and Powers), 1

  Flanagan, William, 1

  Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe, 1

  Fleming, Victor, 1, 2

  Fletcher, Jim, 1, 2

  Flintstones, The, 1, 2, 3

  Flushed with Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper (Reyburn), 1

  Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (Jung), 1, 2

  Flynn, Errol, 1

  Folsey, George, Jr., 1, 2

  Fonda, Peter, 1

  Foote, Ronald, 1

  Forbes, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ford, Harrison, 1, 2, 3 as Indiana Jones, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Ford, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

  Ford, Richard T., 1

  Forman, Milos, 1n, 2

  Forrest Gump, 1n

  Fortune, Bruce, 1

  Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, 1, 2

  Forty-Niner, The, 1, 2, 3

  Founding Fathers, 1, 2

  Four Hundred Blows, The, 1, 2

  Four Star Excelsior Releasing Co., 1

  Fox, Michael J., 1

  Fox, Rodney, 1

  Fraker, William A., 1, 2, 3, 4

  Francis (The Talking Mule), 1

  Frank, Anne, 1

  Frank, Scott, 1

  Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (McBride), 1

  Franklin, Benjamin, 1

  Franzoni, David, 1

  Frawley, James, 1n

  Frazer, Rupert, 1

  Freberg, Stan, 1, 2

  Freedman, Jerrold, 1, 2

  Freeman, Morgan, 1, 2, 3

  Freleng, Friz, 1n

  French, Philip, 1, 2

  French Connection, The, 1, 2

  Freud, Sigmund, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Fridman, Bertha (great-aunt), 1

  Fridman, Israel (great-great-grandfather), 1

  Fridman, Louis (great-grandfather), 1

  Fridman, Sarah Leah Nathan (great-grandmother), 1

  Friedman, Josh, 1

  Friedman, Lester D., 1, 2

  Friedman, Norbert, 1

  Fryer, Robert, 1, 2n

  Fugard, Athol, 1

  Fugitive, The (TV), 1, 2

  Fuhrman, Arnold, 1

  Fuhrman, Miriam, 1, 2

  Fuhrman, Mitzi, 1

  Fuller, Samuel, 1

  Funicello, Annette, 1, 2

  Fury, The, 1

  Future General Corporation, 1

  Gabler, Neal, 1

  Gaines, Bill, 1

  Gaines, Sylvia, 1

  GalaxyQuest, 1

  Gale, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Galwey, Katherine, 1

  Gandhi, 1

  Garcetti, Gilbert, 1

  Garland, Judy, 1

  Garr, Teri, 1, 2

  Gary, Lorraine, 1

  Gavigan, Christopher (son-in-law), 1

  Gavigan, Luke (grandson), 1

  Gazzara, Ben, 1

  Geffen, David, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

  Gehre, Rodney, 1

  Geiggar, Kwazi, 1

  General Electric (GE), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Geng, Victoria, 1

  George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, 1

  German Red Army Faction, 1

  Gervasi, Sacha, 1

  Ghostbusters, 1

  GI Bill of Rights, 1, 2, 3

  Gilbert, Earl, 1

  Giler, David, 1, 2

  Gillespie, Darlene, 1

  Gilmore, William S., Jr., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

  Gimbel, Peter, 1

  Gladiator, 1

  Glatter, Lesli Linka, 1

  Glickman, Larry, 1

  Glover, Danny, 1, 2, 3

  Gnome-Mobile, The, 1

  Godard, Jean-Luc, 1, 2, 3

  Godey, John, 1

  Godfather, The, 1, 2

  Godzilla, 1

  Goeth, Amon, 1, 2, 3

  Goldberg, Adam, 1

  Goldberg, Gary David, 1, 2

  Goldberg, J. J., 1

  Goldberg, Michelle, 1

  Goldberg, Whoopi, 1, 2, 3

  Goldblum, Jeff, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Golden, Arthur, 1

  Goldenberg, Billy, 1, 2, 3

  Goldfeder, Fishel, 1

  Goldman, Bernard, 1

  Goldman, Bo, 1n

  Goldman, William, 1

  Goldstone, Patricia, 1, 2

  Goldwater, Barry, 1

  Golson, Benny, 1

  Gomery, Douglas, 1

  Gone With the Wind, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Goodall, Caroline, 1

 
Goodbye Girl, The, 1

  Good Night, and Good Luck, 1

  Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 1

  Goonies, The, 1n, 2n, 3, 4, 5

  Gordon, Andrew M., 1

  Gottlieb, Carl, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Gould, Stephen Jay, 1

  Gourevitch, Philip, 1, 2

  G.Q., 1

  Graduate, The, 1, 2

  Grals, Michael, 1

  Grant, Cary, 1, 2n, 3

  Great Day in Harlem, A, 1

  Great Escape, The, 1, 2, 3

  Greatest Generation, The (Brokaw), 1

  Greatest Show on Earth, The, 1, 2, 3

  “Great Los Angeles Air Raid, The,” 1

  Great Race, The, 1

  Great White Hope, The (Sackler), 1

  Great White Shark (Fills and McCosker), 1

  Green, Marc, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Green, Marshall, 1

  Greene, Graham, 1

  Gremlins, 1, 2n, 3 direction of, 1

  financing and production of, 1

  violence in, 1, 2

  Grey, Brad, 1, 2, 3

  Grey, Joel, 1

  Griffith, D. W., 1, 2, 3

  Grossman, Marshall, 1

  Grusin, Larry, 1

  Guantánamo prison, 1

  Guber, Peter, 1

  Guffey, Cary, 1, 2

  Guinness, Alec, 1

  Gulager, Clu, 1, 2

  Gunga Din, 1

  Gurr, Bob, 1

  Guttman, Jacob “Jack” (uncle), 1

  Guttman, Natalie Spielberg (aunt), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Guttman, Samuel (cousin), 1, 2

  Guy Named Joe, A, 1n, 2, 3, 4

  Guys and Dolls (Loesser), 1, 2

  Gwathmey, Charles, 1

  Haaretz, 1

  Haas, Lukas, 1

  Hackman, Gene, 1

  Hahn, Christopher Richard, 1

  Haignere, Serge, 1, 2

  Hail the Conquering Hero, 1

  Halberstam, David, 1

  Hall, Conrad L., 1

  Hallström, Lasse, 1

  Hal Mann Laboratories, 1

  Hamilton, Judith Kreisberg, 1

  Hamilton, Murray, 1

  Hamlet (Shakespeare), 1

  Hammer Films, 1

  Hampton, Christopher, 1

  Hancock, John, 1

  Hanks, Tom, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

  Hanson, Kendra Rosen, 1

  Hardberger, Devorah Mann, 1n

  Hard Day’s Night, A, 1

  Hargrove, Dean, 1, 2

  Harlan, Jan, 1

  “Harlem 1958” (Kane), 1

  Harper’s Bazaar, 1

  Harrell, Jim, 1

  Harrison, Linda, 1

  Harry and the Hendersons, 1

  Harryhausen, Ray, 1

  Hart, Jim V., 1

  Harvard Medical School, 1

  Harvey, Joan, 1, 2

  Haskell, Molly, 1, 2, 3

  Haskin, Byron, 1

  Hating Pot, The, 1

  Haunting, The (1963), 1