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    W.K. Stratton analyzes Steven Spielberg's portrayal of women in his early films from the 1970s. She notes that he often depicted women as "abrasive and shrill", depicting Goldie Hawn's character in "The Sugarland Express" as the first example of his recurring "Shrieking Woman" archetype. Stratton also observes how other female characters, like Teri Garr in "Close Encounters" and Karen Allen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" were deliberately "deglamorized". She questions whether Spielberg's depiction of Kate Capshaw being tortured in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" was excessive, suggesting he may have been attracted

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    W.K. Stratton analyzes Steven Spielberg's portrayal of women in his early films from the 1970s. She notes that he often depicted women as "abrasive and shrill", depicting Goldie Hawn's character in "The Sugarland Express" as the first example of his recurring "Shrieking Woman" archetype. Stratton also observes how other female characters, like Teri Garr in "Close Encounters" and Karen Allen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" were deliberately "deglamorized". She questions whether Spielberg's depiction of Kate Capshaw being tortured in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" was excessive, suggesting he may have been attracted

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    W.K. Stratton analyzes Steven Spielberg's portrayal of women in his early films from the 1970s. She notes that he often depicted women as "abrasive and shrill", depicting Goldie Hawn's character in "The Sugarland Express" as the first example of his recurring "Shrieking Woman" archetype. Stratton also observes how other female characters, like Teri Garr in "Close Encounters" and Karen Allen in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" were deliberately "deglamorized". She questions whether Spielberg's depiction of Kate Capshaw being tortured in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" was excessive, suggesting he may have been attracted

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    It isnt long before she is her galvanizing self, the less-than-ardent fan who is
    nevertheless a compelling feminist psychoanalyst. In the directors 1974 crime drama,
    The Sugarland Express, Haskell zeros in on Goldie Hawns portrayal of a
    beautician on the run abrasive and shrill, the first, but not the last, of that
    Spielberg archetype, the Shrieking Woman. Further: One rarely feels hatred of
    women in Spielberg, but rather different shades of fear and mistrust. Cocking her
    head at Close Encounters of the Third Kind, she focuses on Teri Garr, playing a
    scoldy and querulous wife, commenting that the normally attractive Garr is cruelly
    deglamorized. Considering Raiders of the Lost Ark, she pinpoints Karen Allens
    portrayal of the love interest to Harrison Fords Indiana Jones, calling her another
    deglamorized Spielberg woman, a cartoonish gin-slinging tomboy who will soon be
    wearing dresses and screaming for help. And observing the directors future wife,
    Kate Capshaw, playing Spielbergs most nerve-racking version of the Shrieking
    Woman in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, she concludes that the tortures
    designed for the actress were excessive even by the standards of the time. Could
    Spielberg be going overboard, torturing the sassy blonde as if she were one of his kid
    sisters, because he was attracted to her?

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