Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) is a significant cultural landmark in the Hollywood cinema of the late twentieth-century. In addition to the unprecedented box-office gross, which made it the first film in history to top $100 million on its...

Jaws is a 1975 thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916. The police chief of Amity Island, a Summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a great...

The competitive eating world is already chewing on this bit of breaking news: The champ may not be able to chomp.Takeru Kobayashi of Japan, the six-time champion of the annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, may be sidelined for next week's event by...

I never cease to marvel at the endlessly creative ways the likes of Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis recycle their old junk films into more derivative junk-film Xeroxes. The subject rises from the dead anew, like Lazarus, with the latest Bruce Willis opus, a nasty,...

Takeru Kobayashi dismissed speculation Friday that his recent jaw ailment could be a ploy against his main rival at the Nathan's hot dog eating championship next week in New York."That's not even funny," the 29-year-old Japanese eating machine said. "I don't even have time to...

A dog found in the mountains east of Salem with a bullet in its jaw and little meat on its bones has a chance to survive. Phyllis Morris, a supervisor at the recently opened Marion County Dog Control and Shelter,...

[Jaws] is the ritual retelling of an essential patriarchal myth—male vanquishment of the female symbolized as a sea monster, dragon, serpent, vampire, etc.—administering a necessary fix to a society hooked on and by male control. The purpose of Jaws and other myths of its genre is to instill dread and loathing for the female and usually culminate in her annihilation. (p. 305) The great white shark in Jaws,… actually represents the primordial female and her most dreaded aspects. (pp. 307...

With a shark for a villain, Peter Benchley could hardly have missed making Jaws a best seller, nor is director Steven Spielberg likely to miss with his film adaptation. Benchley and Spielberg's only problem was that a shark is almost too good a villain. What way could they find to oppose such unadulterated power? Put up against the Muhammad Ali of sharkdom, the whole human race looks like a Joe Bugner. The trouble is that where a shark is simple by nature, man is various. Where a shark is unmistakabl...

The right things certainly happen in Jaws. At given moments, the images before us lead to frissons of dread anticipation. The pulses pound. Excitement escalates. And by climax time, when it is impossible to disbelieve that one of the leading actors, screaming and vomiting blood, is actually being swallowed alive by a gigantic shark in an unnerving series of gulps, we are watching movie magic of the highest order. Trickery has mastered the illusion of truth. The film is a condensation of Peter Benchley...

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Analyzes the film Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, made in 1975. Describes how the film changed the course of filmmaking. Provides a plot summary of the film.