The 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.

List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements

Foreword
Carl Gottlieb (Screenwriter of Jaws)

Introduction
I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK) and Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)

Part One: Production, Reception and Style
1. ‘She Was the First’: The Place of Jaws in American Film History
Peter Krämer (De Montfort University, UK)

2. Not the First: Myths of Jaws
Sheldon 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 Jaws
Nigel Morris (University of Lincoln, UK)

6. Jaws, in Theory
Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada)

Part Two: Interpretation
7. Jaws as Jewish
Nathan Abrams (Bangor University, UK)

8. Children as Bait
Linda 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 Myth
Matthew Leggatt (University of Winchester, UK)

11. The Way Home: Shifting Perspectives in Jaws
Daniel Varndell (University of Winchester, UK)

12. Relocating the Western in Jaws
Matthew Melia (Kingston University, UK)

Part Three: Beyond Jaws
13. ‘Just When You Thought It Was Safe...’: The Jaws Sequels
Kathleen Loock (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)

14. Martha’s Vineyard Revisited: The Making-Ofs and Their Narrative Strategies
Felix Lempp (University of Hamburg, Germany)

15. Ben Gardner’s Head is Missing: Notes on Jaws: The Sharksploitation Edit
Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln, UK)

16. Live Every Week Like It’s Shark Week: Jaws and Natural History Documentary
Vincent Campbell (University of Leicester, UK)

Index