Annotative Bibliography on Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg Materials: An Annotated Bibliography

Kois, Dan and Lane Brown. Uwe Boll vs. Steven Spielberg. 2008. 6 March 2008
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This is an entertaining argument made by Uwe Boll, who is a legendary German director and former German boxer, is picking fights with Steven Spielberg in this article. According to Dan Kois and Lane Brown, Boll claims “he will crush Steven Spielberg when his latest horror comedy video game adaptation, Postal, opens on the same weekend as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Boll is so confident that he will have a mighty box office outcome that he put his game in an email to the movie Website Bloody Disgusting.

McCarthy, Caroline. Report: Spielberg’s Spooky Social Site. 2008. 6 March 2008
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McCarthy reports an interesting topic that Steven Spielberg is developing a new social network where people can talk about their encounters with the paranormal and extraterrestrial. “The project may have originally been associated with Yahoo but the project was killed off before launch,” TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington wrote. “But if our sources are right, the idea has lived on and a team in Los Angeles is working to launch it in the next few months.” Spielberg as made plenty of movies associated with extraterrestrials, for example: Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Men in Black, and World of the Worlds. The years of being interested in extraterrestrials, Spielberg is trying to make the world feel his lifelong passion.

Thompson, Max. “RMJM boss hits out at Spielberg and other Beijing boycotters.”
Architects’ Journal. 2008. 6 March 2008 news/dailynews/2008/03/rmjm_boss_hits_out_at_spielberg_and_other_beijing_
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This is a serious article where Peter Morrison, who films has had an office in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai for years, taking a swipe at Steven Spielberg and others who have backed the boycotting of the Beijing Olympic Games. Spielberg does not think that the Olympic Games should be held in China because of the human rights problems and supply of arms to war. Morrison states that the Olympic Games should not just push the Chinese culture aside like that. “We’ve worked hard to improve the situation for parts of the built environment in China,” said Morrison, “I believe this is the key to the development of the country”. What Morrison is saying in the article is that the Olympic Games will help expand the different cultures in different countries.