Dreams on Film: The Cinematic Struggle Between Art and ScienceMcFarland, 28 de jun. de 2010 - 209 páginas Films with dream sequences, or a dreamlike quality, allow directors to create their own rules of logic and nature to meet a variety of artistic needs. For instance, an opening dream immediately establishes what a character is feeling; a later dream--or series of them--provides viewers with a glimpse of the climax, and a concluding dream ties up loose ends. (In real life, of course, dreams do not occur at such convenient times or serve such useful purposes.) This book explores why science is lost or distorted in the process of representing dreams on film and why audiences prefer this figurative truth of art over the literal truth of science. Part One discusses changes in form and considers the history of dream theory. Additionally, the physiology of sleeping and dreaming, dream structure, sleep deprivation, dreams under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and waking up, as depicted on film, are examined. Part Two investigates changes in content, and delves into the psychology of sleeping and dreaming, dream interpretation, altered states of consciousness, visions and prophecies, dreams as wish fulfillment, sex and death, nightmares, and reality versus illusion. The author uses theories by Freud, Jung, and current experts in her analyses of dream sequences and their use in film. |
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... present caricatures of real situations , hut , like all good caricature and all myth , they merely intensify and enlarge the true features of the daydreams from which they spring . These then are the collective day- dreams of this ...
... present the dream , we understand it as a psychic pro- jection of a mind made visible on the screen . At the moment that the dream appears , we enter into a new phenomenological relationship with the cin- ematic screen and with the ...
... present in the face , fingers , and toes . Movement in NREM sleep is episodic and involuntary , while REM movement is voluntary but inhibited . Despite similar brain waves dur- ing waking and REM , the body experiences external ...
... present reality " ( 332 ) . The post - traumatic nightmare , such as many Americans experienced after the September 11 , 2001 , terrorist attacks , is an example of unsuccessful functioning of the adaptive mechanism . In Dreaming Souls ...
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Sleep Deprivation | 37 |
Dreams Under the Influence | 46 |
Waking Up | 54 |
Creative Differences Changes in Content | 65 |
Psychology of Sleeping and Dreaming | 67 |
Dream Themes Sex and Death | 114 |
Nightmares | 126 |
Dream Elements | 138 |
Dream Symbols | 147 |
Reality vs Illusion | 161 |
Conclusion | 178 |
Filmography | 181 |
Notes | 189 |
Dream Interpretation | 73 |
Altered States of Consciousness | 82 |
Visions and Prophesies | 92 |
Dreams as Wish Fulfillment | 103 |
Bibliography | 191 |
Index | 195 |