Stephen Spielberg is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time; his movies having earned almost £4 billion internationally. Spielberg’s films have approached a diverse array of themes and genres: throughout early years as a director, his sci-fi and adventure films were often distinguished as archetypal of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his movies attended to such historical concern as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism.
Having purchased rights to Peter Benchley’s novel (loosely based around a factual incident in which a series of shark attacks killed four individuals along American coast) in 1973, for approximately £125, 00, studio producers Richard Zanuck and David Brown offered Spielberg the director's chair for Jaws. Jaws, the movie, was released in 1975 and, parallel to the novel, consists somewhat bluntly of a great white shark assailing a small beach resort town –......

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Title: Jaws - Filmic Techniques, Structure Of Tension/Suspense
Approximate Word Count: 471
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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