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"Steven Soderbergh"

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CHAPTER

The History of Americanizing Storytelling

In 1975, when I was in St. Petersburg, Florida, visiting my grandparents alone, I saw Jaws. Ironically, this perfect piece of entertainment now made me not think of movies as just entertainment anymore. In any store that you walked into, there was a paperback called the Jaws log that Carl Gottlieb wrote. And I carried this thing around with me and highlighted every section that mentioned Steven Spielberg. But anyway, do you still go to the movie theaters now or do you just watch anything at home?

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