Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television /
| Основен автор: | Whitt, Jan. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Peter Lang,
[2013]
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| Серия: |
Framing film ;
v. 13. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
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Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- The influence of literature on film and television. Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's allegory of despair
- When fiction becomes reality: Authorial voice in the door in the floor, secret window, and swimming pool
- The "very simplicity of the thing": Edgar Allan Poe, Jessica B. Fletcher, and Murder, she wrote
- Changing faces: Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde, and films of the 1980s
- Displaced people and the frailty of words: communication in Ordinary people, On golden pond, and Terms of endearment
- Portrayals of class, race, and sexual orientation. Working man blues: images of the cowboy in American film
- From the wilderness into the closet: Brokeback Mountain and the lost American dream
- What happened to Celie and Idgie?: "apparitional lesbians" in American film
- Litigating the past: portrayals of the Japanese in American film
- Portrayals of class, race, and ethnicity. Fatherhood, fidelity, and friendship: Owen Thoreau Jr. and men of a certain age
- Frank's place: coming home to a place we'd never been before
- "American life is rich in lunacy": the unsettling social commentary of The Beverly hillbillies
- Grits and yokels aplenty: depictions of southerners on prime-time television
- Portrayals of women in film and television. From Great expectations to The bachelor: the jilted woman in literature and popular culture
- The lady is (still) a tramp: prime-time portrayals of women who love sex
- "This moment of June": Laura Brown, Clarissa Vaughn, Virginia Woolf, and The hours.