Crocker Film Series: Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Written and directed by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a landmark of cinema that helped usher in a new era of science fiction film. Starring Richard Dreyfuss as a blue-collar Indiana man who experiences contact with a UFO, Close Encounters uses gorgeous Western landscape, and specifically Wyoming’s iconic Devil’s Tower butte, as a point of communication between Earthlings and the mysterious visitors from the sky.

The film will be introduced by Michele Foss-Snowden, professor of communications at Sacramento State. A Q&A with Ms. Foss-Snowden will follow the screening.