03405nam a2200433 i 4500 ebr10819414 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 130311t20132013nyu ob 001 0 eng|d 9781433116605 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781453910467 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)864141049 n-us--- PN1995.9.S6 W52 2013eb 791.430973 23 Whitt, Jan. Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / Jan Whitt. New York : Peter Lang, [2013] �2013 1 online resource (275 pages). text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Framing film : the history and art of cinema ; volume 13 Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Motion pictures Social aspects United States. Television programs Social aspects United States. Motion pictures and literature United States. Electronic books. Print version: Whitt, Jan. Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television. New York : Peter Lang, [2013] xii, 261 pages ; 24 cm. Framing film : the history and art of cinema ; vol. 13 9781433116605 (DLC) 2013003322 ebrary. Framing film ; v. 13. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10819414 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 79426 79426