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The Jaws Log
30th Anniversary Edition
by Newmarket

Format:	Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher:	Newmarket
Pub. Date:	June 14, 2005
ISBN:	1557046778
Dimensions:	5.6 × 1 × 8.3 inches

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Named one of 2001's Best Reprints by Library Journal: "Essential for film collections."

This 2-million copy bestseller by Jaws co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb returns and remains the only book on the making of Steven Spielberg's classic film—a compelling insider's story of how the famous director made the movie that made film history!

Winner of three Oscars® (Best Film Editing, Best Original Score, Best Sound), the highest grossing film of that time (the first film to earn over $100 million, the first "summer blockbuster"), the second feature of a 26-year-old director, the movie Jaws was a phenomenon—and this classic "how it was made" story is just as riveting today as it was when first published in 1975. It generated 17 printings and became the bestselling "making of" book of all time.

Hired by Spielberg as a screenwriter to work with him on the set while the movie was being made, Gottlieb, an actor and writer, was there throughout the production, and, after filming was over, with Spielberg's cooperation, he chronicled this year-long adventure in The Jaws Log. His book takes readers from Peter Benchley's #1 bestselling novel to the never-before-seen special effects, the creation and secrecy surrounding the mechanical sharks, the filming of the hair-raising real shark footage, the pressures from the studio, the townspeople, the weather, the unprecedented production demands, and his own horrifying fall into the frigid Atlantic during filming.

Gottlieb creates a riveting portrait of a movie in process, of the cast and crew, including actors Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss—and, most of all, of young director Spielberg at work on the second feature film of his career. A fascinating look at people passionately committed to their craft, The Jaws Log is an inspiring, timeless story for all filmmakers, movie fans, and the general reader.

"The Jaws Log is to this day my favorite piece of making-of material. It's like a little movie director bible. Whenever I'm having a bad day at work, I go back and read a chapter...and thank the Lord I'm not shooting on the ocean." —Bryan Singer, director of The Usual Suspects and X-Men

"Jaws is one of those movies where the 'making-of' story is nearly as good as the film itself, especially when it is told by the unsung hero of that story, the screenwriter. Because above and beyond the Spielberg touch and the fine acting, the reason Jaws is a great, great movie is the script, with its juicy characters. Carl Gottlieb wrote that script, and his behind-the-scenes account of the production is riveting. " —Peter Biskind, author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

"It's is an easy read, but energizing and with some of the zest of the movie—which is, of course, the funniest scare picture ever made." —Pauline Kael, Film Critic and Author

"Since The Jaws Log was first published, we've seen countless behind-the-scenes accounts of the making of movies, but none come close to Carl Gottlieb's artful, detailed, and very funny account of the making of this motion picture phenomenon. It is not only entertaining and insightful, but truly enhances one's appreciation of a remarkable filmmaker's achievement. " —Rob Reiner, director of A Few Good Men and When Harry Met Sally

"All of my life, I have been a devotee of film literature. Carl Gottlieb's The Jaws Log stands firmly at the top, easily the greatest 'making-of' book ever written, with its combination of humor, insight, and suspense of a production gone haywire. Gottlieb's work is as entertaining as the movie it is about. In fact, you have not had the full Jaws experience until you have read, make that devoured, this wonderful book." —Rod Lurie, director of The Contender and The Last Castle

"Steven Soderbergh has been like this ever since he saw Jaws and became obsessed, seeing it again and again, and reading and rereading The Jaws Log by Carl Gottlieb, highlighting things in it and going through several copies, wearing them out." —Rolling Stone

"Like Jonah writing from the belly of the whale, Carl Gottlieb's journal of the process of making Jaws comes from the unique perspective of one of the major players in the collaboration that resulted in Steven Spielberg's classic movie." —John Landis, director of The Blues Brothers

"No, The Jaws Log is not a candy bar. It's a wonderful book about a classic movie." —Steve Martin, actor, director, and author

Product Details

Format:	Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher:	Newmarket
Pub. Date:	June 14, 2005
ISBN:	1557046778
Dimensions:	5.6 × 1 × 8.3 inches

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