Cinema’s most successful director Steven Spielberg is a commercial and cultural force. In a career spanning more than five decades, Spielberg has directed 39 films across a variety of genres. Early in his career, his adventure movies came to epitomize the blockbuster. In later years, he focused on historical and adult-themed dramas. What is the magic and powerful emotional appeal of Spielberg’s films that has fascinated audiences for 50 years? What kinds of characters, stories, conflicts does Spielberg develop? What filmic techniques define Spielberg’s cinematic vision? How do we see Spielberg’s films today? Are they consumeristic escapism? Or, do his films reflect complex, nuanced, even ambiguous, views of the world? Are his films still relevant?
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