Jaws

Memories from Martha's Vineyard: Revised & Updated Edition

Matt Taylor, Steven Spielberg

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Titan Books Ltd
26 August 2025

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Film movie production: technical skills

The first behind-the-scenes account of the making of Jaws to focus on the production's local participants, featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photos, previously untold accounts and anecdotes, and a Foreword by director Steven Spielberg. Updated with new material for the film's 50th anniversary. You're gonna need a bigger coffee table!

The filming of Jaws is regarded as a landmark event in both the history of motion pictures and the quaint New England island of Martha's Vineyard, where the geographic isolation necessitated the hiring of hundreds of locals to work as actors and laborers. Among this virtual army of hometown participants were numerous professional and amateur photographers, each with full access to the production's inner workings. This compiles their behind-the-scenes photographs and stories for the first time into a treasure trove of Jaws rarities into a unique compendium, the first to focus on the production's local participants.

Movie buffs, special effects enthusiasts, and fans of the watershed film will thrill in this definitive volume's special features:

updated edition includes over 100 new photos, most previously unseen and many in colour, new interview material with local cast and crew, and an Afterword by Wendy Benchley, wife of Jaws author Peter Benchley foreword by Jaws Director Steven Spielberg hundreds of never-before-seen photographs of the production's inner workings, taken by local participants and bystanders, as well as detailed account of how the filmmakers chose Martha's Vineyard as their shooting location recollections of local crew and cast members, from Lee Fierro (Mrs. Kintner) and Chris Crawford (the real-life captain of the Orca) to Craig Kingsbury, the inspiration for Robert Shaw's portrayal of the maniacal shark hunter Quint newly illustrated schematics by Jaws Production Designer Joe Alves explaining the intricacies of the revolutionary sea sled fin mechanism, as well as his original 1974 storyboards insight on adapting Jaws from the page to screen from Hollywood professionals including Screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, Location Casting Director Shari Rhodes, and more

A must-have for the worldwide legions of Jaws fans who can't get enough of the greatest action-adventure picture of all time.

By: Matt Taylor, Steven Spielberg
Imprint: Titan Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 302mm, Width: 264mm, Spine: 50mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9781835410370
ISBN 10: 1835410375
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 26 August 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Matt Taylor is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, where he studied early American history. Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard, his first publication, is the culmination of a lifelong passion for art, film, and New England history. He is a fifteenth-generation resident of Martha's Vineyard, where he lives with his wife and children. Steven Spielberg is an award-winning Hollywood movie director.

Reviews for Jaws: Memories from Martha's Vineyard: Revised & Updated Edition

Praise for the 1st edition: “Chock full of anecdotes and bursting with more than 1000 pix that have never been seen before. This behind-the-scenes beauty is an absolute must have.”— Library Journal “One of the most amazing making-of-a-movie books ever.” —Fangoria magazine “You’re going to need a bigger coffee table.” – Rue Morgue magazine “A gorgeously produced coffee table book. Taylor’s work ambitiously offers what amounts to a nearly scene-by-scene accounting of the making of one of history’s most-beloved films.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review, one of the Books of the Year “It is charming and as handsome and thorough as any book about any film production could hope to be.” —Chicago Tribune “After thirty-five years, I can’t believe the fan base Jaws has. A coffee table book showing the making of the movie in a whole new light is long overdue.” —Jaws Production Designer Joe Alves