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""Lucid, eloquent, and impeccable in its scholarship, like all of Linda Ruth Williams's writing, this is a thoughtful and insightful study about what is most special about Spielberg's work. Speaking for the little Brooklyn boy I once was (and still am), I can add that this book gets it right about childhood. This is film criticism of the highest order."" -- William D. Rothman * author of Tuitions and Intuitions: Essays at the Intersection of Film Criticism and Philosophy * ""Williams's scholarly book deftly is a unique and significant pathway to understanding how Spielberg's fascination with children remains a crucial element in his most popular movies. Her insightful analysis and accessible prose demonstrates the complexity of Spielberg's conception of childhood, providing a deeply nuanced understanding of the director's work often neglected in previous books about his films."" -- Lester Friedman * author of Citizen Spielberg * ""Steven Spielberg's Children examines modern Hollywood classics in detail and with nuance across themes that include the child's body, 'clever girls,' and the war child, among other figures and motifs. Williams expands the usual cinematic investigations of Spielberg's cinema by underpinning the films with an expansive discussion on how childhood has been perceived across different historical periods and through different disciplinary agendas."" -- Timothy Corrigan * author of The Essay Film: From Montaigne, After Marker *

""Williams's scholarly book deftly is a unique and significant pathway to understanding how Spielberg's fascination with children remains a crucial element in his most popular movies. Her insightful analysis and accessible prose demonstrates the complexity of Spielberg's conception of childhood, providing a deeply nuanced understanding of the director's work often neglected in previous books about his films.""--Lester Friedman ""author of Citizen Spielberg""

""Williams's scholarly book deftly is a unique and significant pathway to understanding how Spielberg's fascination with children remains a crucial element in his most popular movies. Her insightful analysis and accessible prose demonstrates the complexity of Spielberg's conception of childhood, providing a deeply nuanced understanding of the director's work often neglected in previous books about his films."" -- Lester Friedman * author of Citizen Spielberg *

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LINDA RUTH WILLIAMS is a professor of film at the University of Exeter, UK. She is author of five books, including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema, and coeditor of Contemporary American Cinema.

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