Bouzereau, Laurent (1995). A Look Inside Jaws ["Music by John Williams"]. Jaws: 30th Anniversary Edition DVD (2005): Universal Home Video.
The Question and Answer section for Jaws is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
From the screenplay:
A riffly blur, color alternating with black and white. The dizziness stops on a book page showing a black and white rendering of eight species of shark. The banner at the top of the page reads: THE KNOWN AND REPUTED MANEATERS....
I think that this was the tag line for the movie version of the book. It says so much with so little. The line implies that there is something very dangerous in the water that can strike just when we think it is safe to enter the water. It implies...
I think the suspense comes when the reader is told what a wonder the shark is. They are in many respects superior to man. This builds up the mystique of the shark which adds suspense when we actually encounter them in the book.
