Miho,
 
You could look at "A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese,
Spielberg, Altman" 2nd ed. by Robert Kolker. New York : Oxford
University Press, 1988.  He does not deal with the films you mentioned,
but talks about Spielberg's tendency to focus on the suburbs and the
nuclear family.
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