Silver Screen Dreams
Title | Silver Screen Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Jennie Bennett |
Publisher | Jennie Bennett |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2018-08-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1718068360 |
Summer Henley is sick of playing it safe. Safe career path (accounting,) safe place to live (with her parents,) and a safe best friend (Mark.) In her dreams she was a screenwriter with a home in a Malibu and a hot actor boyfriend, but that was saved in her someday file. For the moment, she’d play the part of a good worker, good daughter, and good friend. Even though her heart longed for something more, especially with Mark. It wouldn’t be so hard to stay just friends if Mark would quit being so amazing to her. Knowing her dream, he’s secured her a spot as an extra in Korean television show⸺placing her directly in the path of the handsome lead actor. Now, two incredible men are vying for her attention and she has to decided if her dreams are really what she wants, or if her reality is better than she could ever imagine.
Silver Screen Dream
Title | Silver Screen Dream PDF eBook |
Author | Victoria Blisse |
Publisher | Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD) |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2011-09-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0857156403 |
When true love conquers all, what is a djinn to do? Johnny is a djinn, and he has a hard life. His master, Rahul, is a massive Bollywood star who's run off to England to avoid an arranged marriage, a marriage Johnny has to make happen. It's his job. Rahul further complicates matters by falling for a British Bollywood fan, Laura, whom he meets at a film premiere. How can Johnny get his master back to Mumbai to marry the woman to whom he is pledged and away from the English hussy who is steadily taking more and more of his attention? Johnny will use revenge and jealousy, but how will he cope when true love is thrown into the mix?
Dreams on Film
Title | Dreams on Film PDF eBook |
Author | Leslie Halpern |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780786480760 |
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.
Screen Dreams
Title | Screen Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Whatling |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Lesbianism in motion pictures |
ISBN | 9780719050671 |
From Streep to Foster, Maidens in Uniform to Heavenly Creatures, Whatling reinvestigates mainstream feminist film theory, & provides an engaging introduction to a complex area, whilst drawing on the relationship between an audience & a film text.
The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals
Title | The Cinema Dreams Its Rivals PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Young |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0816635994 |
Hollywood's reaction to it's media rivals throughout the history of cinema in America.
Silver Screens and Golden Dreams
Title | Silver Screens and Golden Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Jane M. Ferguson |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2024-04-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0824897269 |
In a tour-de-force study of sixty years of cinematic entertainment, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams traces the veins of Burmese popular movies across three periods in history: the colonial era, the parliamentary democracy period, and the Ne Win Socialist years. Author Jane M. Ferguson engages cinema as an interrogator of mainstream cultural values, providing political and cultural context to situate the films as artistic endeavors and capitalist products. Exploring how filmmakers eschewed colonial control and later selectively toed the ideological lines of the Burmese Way to Socialism, Silver Screens and Golden Dreams offers a serious yet enjoyable investigation of leisure during difficult times of transition and political upheaval. By skillfully blending historical and anthropological approaches, Ferguson shows how Burmese cinema presents a lively, unique take on the country’s social history. The world tends to see Myanmar (Burma) as an ancient, idyllic land of emerald-green rice paddies dotted with golden pagodas, yet sadly tarnished by a contemporary reality of grinding poverty, a decades-long civil war, and the most enduring military dictatorship in modern history. Burmese society is frequently stereotyped as isolated, hidebound to Buddhist cultural foundations, or embroiled in military rule and civil strife. Its thriving, cosmopolitan film industry not only questions such orientalist archetypes but also provides an incisive lens to explore social history through everyday popular practices. Emerging from a vibrant literary and performing arts scene, Burmese talent and ingenuity spurred a century of near-continuous motion picture production. Dozens of local film companies have churned out thousands of films, bringing to life popular folk tales, tear-jerking dramas, and epic adventures for millions of adoring fans. Even during the purportedly isolated Burmese Way to Socialism years, local movie production continued, and ticket sales even increased. Glamorous stars adopted international fashions, yet inspired Burmese cultural pride in the face of foreign economic and political domination. From silent films depicting moral perils, to Hollywood remakes, to socialist realism and ethnic unity films, locally made motion pictures have captured the imaginations of Burmese people for over a century.
Shoeless Joe
Title | Shoeless Joe PDF eBook |
Author | W. P. Kinsella |
Publisher | Rosetta Books |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2014-01-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0795311710 |
The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review One of Sports Illustrated’s 100 Greatest Sports Books “If you build it, he will come.” When Ray Kinsella hears these mysterious words spoken in the voice of an Iowa baseball announcer, he is inspired to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield. It is a tribute to his hero, the legendary Shoeless Joe Jackson, whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. What follows is a timeless story that is “not so much about baseball as it is about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American” (The Philadelphia Inquirer). “A triumph of hope.” —The Boston Globe “A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.” —Sports Illustrated