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Article: Language and The Music of the Spheres: Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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- Literature/Film Quarterly
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
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From its multi-lingual opening to its multi-lingual finale, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is about language: verbal, visual, electronic, and musical-communication and its limitations, language and its possibilities; and it is about the ineffable things which are beyond speech or imaging-things having to do with emotion and yearning, things touching upon the spiritual and the supernatural.
In his article "Politics and Parousia in Close Encounters of the Third Kind" Robert Torry called Steven Spielberg's classic science fiction film of 1977 "the most rhetorically compelling film of the American bicentennial era" (188-96).
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