Steven Spielberg
9 titles · american genre
Popular cinema at the highest level of craft, built on withheld sight. Spielberg stages wonder and terror the same way — a reaction shot first, the thing itself late — and returns throughout to absent fathers and children who have to manage without them.
Signature
- Reaction before revelation; the creature or wonder delayed.
- Fluid long takes disguised as invisible coverage.
- Suburban and domestic texture grounding extraordinary events.
- Children as competent moral centres.
Schindler's List
Saving Private Ryan
Catch Me If You Can
Raiders of the Lost Ark
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Jaws
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Color Purple
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