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Steven Spielberg

s a child, Steven Spielberg would contemplate the static on the TV. One can imagine that in the black-and-white squares one can see something like all the possibilities that may exist, like how X-rays have shown that the black square in Malevich’s in fact covers coloured objects. Molly Haskell writes that Spielberg arrives in the history of movies at a point where the myth of an inclusive middle class, and a homogeneous America, was

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