FilmThreat recently sat down with writer Andrew Gordon who has written book Empire of Dreams highlighting Spielberg's sci-fi film from psychological point of view.

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What inspired you to approach Steven Spielberg's sci-fi films from a psychological level?

I'm a psychological critic of literature and film; I direct the Institute for the Psychological Study of the Arts (IPSA) at the University of Florida. A psychological approach to Spielberg's films helps because they often work on the level of deep feeling and because he invites such an approach by saying that "I dream for a living" – that “Duel” is an "exercise in paranoia"; and that Jaws "hit a nerve somewhere. Maybe because it's basically Freudian.