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020			_z9781433116605 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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100	1		_aWhitt, Jan.
245	1	0	_aDangerous dreams : _bessays on American film and television / _cJan Whitt.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPeter Lang, _c[2013]
264		4	_c©2013
300			_a1 online resource (275 pages).
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aFraming film : the history and art of cinema ; _vvolume 13
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction -- 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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aMotion pictures _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aTelevision programs _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aMotion pictures and literature _zUnited States.
655		0	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aWhitt, Jan. _tDangerous dreams : essays on American film and television. _dNew York : Peter Lang, [2013] _hxii, 261 pages ; 24 cm. _kFraming film : the history and art of cinema ; vol. 13 _z9781433116605 _w(DLC) 2013003322
797	2		_aebrary.
830		0	_aFraming film ; _vv. 13.
856	4	0	_uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10819414 _zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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