Using the Frame: Spielberg and Visual Elegance

Andrew
9 min readMar 27, 2020
Jaws, 1975

There are many impressive visual stylists in cinema, yet few have the compositional and staging grace that Steven Spielberg has been perfecting for over forty years of his career. It’s hard to call a Spielberg film ‘bland’ given that, whether they succeed or fail on the whole, the visual nature of his films is always embedded with fantastic images, complex blocking, and economic storytelling. Spielberg has…

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Andrew

My passions include cinema, literature, fantasy, psychology, music/guitar, photography and ancient/medieval history.