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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Critical Context

1 Close Encounters of the Third Kind: tripping the light fantastic
2 Duel: the descent of Mann
3 The Sugarland Express: a light comedy?
4 Jaws: searching the depths
5 1941: war on Hollywood
6 Raiders of the Lost Ark: lights, camera, action
7 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial: turn on your love light
8 Twilight Zone: The Movie: magic lantern man overshadowed
9 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: anything goes
10 The Color Purple: sisters and brothers
11 Empire of the Sun: shanghai showmanship
12 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: cut to the chase
13 Always: light my fire
14 Hook: an awfully big Pan(a)vision adventure
15 Jurassic Park: another monster hit
16 Schindler’s List: darkness visible
17 The Lost World: Jurassic Park: more digital manipulation
18 Amistad: black and white in colour
19 Saving Private Ryan: Hollywood on war
20 A.I. Artificial Intelligence: eyes wide open
21 Minority Report: through a glass, darkly
22 Catch Me If You Can: captured on celluloid
23 The Terminal: all that jazz
24 War of the Worlds: rays in the mirror
25 Munich: bitter fruit on the olive branch
26 Audiences, subjectivity and pleasure

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