Paperback writers: Sunday 29-3-2015
It’s Not About The Shark
By David Niven
Icon Books, €17
When Steven Spielberg directed Jaws in 1975, he was faced with filming a prosthetic prop shark that wouldn’t scare a mouse. Realising it was unusable, Spielberg overcame his shark problem by using its absence to create an eerie atmosphere. In doing so, he solved what seemed to be an unsolvable problem. In David Niven’s book, the psychologist uses colourful anecdotes like this one to illustrate how ...
