Fifty Years of Jaws (1975)

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Some people watch fireworks every year on the Fourth of July, but I watch Jaws (1975). Steven Spielberg’s iconic adaptation of the novel by Peter Benchley has long been a favorite of mine, so much so that I wrote a model essay about the use of music in Jaws for my students back in 1995, when I was a teaching assistant just starting my PhD program in English Literature. My love for the film hasn’t dimmed over the decades, and 2025 is an especially good time to revisit Jaws as it celebrates fifty years since its original theatrical release. Not everyone shares my enthusiasm for the movie, I know, especially with Jaws sometimes taking the blame for the endless onslaught of empty-headed summer hits we endure today, but despite its box office success the original summer blockbuster is no soulless cash grab. Jaws is, in fact, a cinematic masterpiece, a true classic where every shot, note, and character work in service to a story that functions as modern mythology….

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