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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1,140 words, approx. 4 pages

Close Encounters of the Third Kind With its elaborate, unprecedented use of special effects and novel portrayal of extraterrestrials, Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened to popular acclaim in No... Read more

Essays & Analysis (8)

Critical Essay by Garrett Stewart

1,585 words, approx. 6 pages

Critical Essay by Garrett Stewart Without the steely perfection or visual profundity of [Stanley] Kubrick's 2001, Spielberg's rousing entertainment [Close Encounters of the Third Kind] i... Read more

Critical Essay by B. H. Fairchild, Jr.

1,175 words, approx. 4 pages

Critical Essay by B. H. Fairchild, Jr. Almost everyone both in and out of [Close Encounters of the Third Kind] seems … to be waiting for some kind of miraculous salvation, an escape, an awakeni... Read more

Critical Essay by Jerome Klinkowitz

610 words, approx. 3 pages

Critical Essay by Jerome Klinkowitz Notice how [the film version of Close Encounters of the Third Kind] virtually stops once the giant mother ship arrives—half the shots are of people just stan... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Asahina

349 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Robert Asahina Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind having been very well received by critics and mass audiences, [Spielberg] decided his latest feature, 1941, would be someth... Read more

Critical Essay by Pauline Kael

400 words, approx. 2 pages

Critical Essay by Pauline Kael I wish that Steven Spielberg had trusted his first instincts and left "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" as it was. In his new, reëdited version, ... Read more

Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann

231 words, approx. 1 pages

Critical Essay by Stanley Kauffmann Steven Spielberg, the writer and director [of Close Encounters of the Third Kind] has re-edited some bits of the original, put in some footage that was omitted firs... Read more

Critical Essay by Pauline Kael

967 words, approx. 4 pages

Critical Essay by Pauline Kael Close Encounters of the Third Kind is the most innocent of all technological-marvel movies, and one of the most satisfying. This film has retained some of the wonder and... Read more

Critical Essay by Charlene Engel

4,311 words, approx. 15 pages

In the following essay, Engel asserts that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is primarily concerned with language in a variety of forms—“verbal, visual, electronic, and musical.”... Read more