American Imago (2004) - Eighty Years of Dream Sequences: A Cinematic Journey Down Freud's "Royal Road"
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- article: Eighty Years of Dream Sequences: A Cinematic Journey Down Freud's "Royal Road"
- author(s): Jerrold R. Brandell
- journal: American Imago (08/Apr/2004)
- issue: volume 61, issue 1, pages 59-76
- DOI: 10.1353/aim.2004.0012
- journal ISSN: 0065-860X
- publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
- keywords: Alfred Hitchcock, Chicago, Illinois, David O Selznick, Dreams, François Truffaut, Gregory Peck, Helen Scott, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Trevor, Janet Bergstrom, Jerrold R. Brandell, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Chekhov, Motion picture criticism, Psychoanalysis, Salvador Dalí, Spellbound (1945)
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Abstract
Brandell discusses how dreams and dream-interpretation have been depicted in four films from the 1920s through the 1990s: G. W. Pabst's Secrets of the Soul (1926), Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), Frank Perry's David and Lisa (1962), and Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys (1995). He deftly suggests that their changing attitudes toward dreams mirror at least approximately the transformations undergone by psychoanalytic theory over the eighty-year period he surveys.