Dangerous Dreams: Essays on American Film and Television

by Jan Whitt

In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are important - and they're dangerous - because we're the keepers of the dreams. The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics, religion, and sexual orientation. Dangerous Dreams: Essays on American Film and Television employs aesthetic, feminist, historical, Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiological, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143311660X
• ISBN13: 9781433116605
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 261 Pages