Film, Television and the Psychology of the Social Dream

by Robert W. Rieber and Robert J. Kelly

Book Overview

​This book demonstrates how social distress or anxiety is reflected, modified, and evolves through the medium of the motion picture. Tracing cinema from its earliest forms, the authors show how film is a perfect medium for generating and projecting dreams, fantasies, and nightmares, on the individual as well as the societal level. Arising at the same time as Freud's influential ideas, cinema has been intertwined with the wishes and fears of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461471745
• ISBN13: 9781461471745
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"