The Phenomena of Light in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema: 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'

All film directors employ light -- natural, artificial, and reflected -- not simply to illuminate but to add to the desired mood of the scene or to provide another supernatural dimension.

For example, use of light in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (directed by Steven Spielberg in 1977), provides a means of communication among characters, audience, and the dubious presence, good or evil. It also acted as a way of heightening the cinematic experience by disguising where the source of the light was actually coming from, that it was acting on behalf of the being(s)...continue reading this article at Geeks of Doom