Jaws Book

I.Q. Hunter is Professor of Film Studies at De Montfort University, UK, and the author of British Trash Cinema (2013), Cult Film as a Guide to Life (2016), editor of British Science Fiction Cinema (1999) and co-editor of British Comedy Cinema (2012) and The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History (2016).Matthew Melia is a Senior Lecturer in film and television at Kingston University, UK. His research interests include the work of Ken Russell, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.

An excellent variety of fascinating readings about a surprisingly complex film of the 1970s. The range of approaches is stimulating, accessible, and superbly thought out. Each essay increases our knowledge of Jaws from a variety of perspectives and heightens our understanding of the film.

• List of illustrationsNotes on contributorsAcknowledgementsForewordCarl Gottlieb (Screenwriter of Jaws)IntroductionI.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) and Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK) Part One: Production, Reception and Style1. ‘She Was the First’: The Place of Jaws in American Film HistoryPeter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK)2. Not the First: Myths of JawsSheldon Hall (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)3. Cutting to the Chase: Editing Jaws Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University, UK)4. ‘The Shark is Not Working’ – But the Music Is: Scoring a Hit with Jaws Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton, UK)5. In the Teeth of Criticism: Forty-Five Years of JawsNigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK)6. Jaws, in TheoryMurray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) Part Two: Interpretation 7. Jaws as JewishNathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK) 8. Children as BaitLinda Ruth Williams (Exeter University, UK)9. Reflexive Epistemology in Jaws and Jurassic Park Robert Geal (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 10. ‘We Delivered the Bomb’: On Jaws, Guilt, and the Atomic MythMatthew Leggatt (University of Winchester, UK)11. The Way Home: Shifting Perspectives in Jaws Daniel Varndell (University of Winchester, UK) 12. Relocating the Western in JawsMatthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)Part Three: Beyond Jaws13. ‘Just When You Thought It Was Safe...’: The Jaws SequelsKathleen Loock (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) 14. Martha’s Vineyard Revisited: The Making-Ofs and Their Narrative StrategiesFelix Lempp (University of Hamburg, Germany)15. Ben Gardner’s Head is Missing: Notes on Jaws: The Sharksploitation EditNeil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK) 16. Live Every Week Like It’s Shark Week: Jaws and Natural History DocumentaryVincent Campbell (University of Leicester, UK) Index