Essays on Steven Spielberg

Severing Traditional Gender Roles The status and portrayal of women have drastically fluctuated throughout the history of cinema. Women have experienced social repression within society, the cementation of domestication, a striking empowerment of sexual prowess and allure, and the gradual equality of gender roles portrayed…

The Effect of Music in the Movie Jaws Music has always been noted as a powerful tool when it is utilized properly. Music can change set the mood, or even change the atmosphere. This is a particularly important property when it comes to movies. Music…

Causality, Determinism, and Freedom The film Minority Report presents the idea of an America without murder, supplemented by the use of “precogs,” who are able to see into the future and predict murders before they happen. In the first act of the film, we see…

Spielberg is a director who uses his own likings and funky elements in his films. Throughout the semester we viewed plenty of Spielberg’s movies with the technological aspect, which ultimately was seen throughout the film. He liked to add the futuristic elements in his films…

It took Ernest Cline 10 years to write Ready Player One. There were times he thought he would never finish the manuscript, let alone publish it. But the novel, mostly set in a global online pleasure world called Oasis, went on to become a bestseller…