Following the dictum to "read from the film rather than reading into it," the editor of the New Review of Film and Television Studies examines Spielberg's film-making practices rather than the meaning of films from Jaws (1975) to War of the Worlds (2005). Buckland argues that the director's blockbusters should be taken as seriously as his Schindler's List (1993), and weighs in on the debate over whether Spielberg ghost-directed Poltergeist (1982). The book includes movie stills, and diagrammatic and statistical analyses of types of camera shots. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)