Film and the Dream Screen - A Sleep and a Forgetting

Robert T. Eberwein uses a hypothesis from psychoanalytic theory to explore the frequently noticed similarity between dreaming and watching a film. His comprehensive study of the relationship between films and dreams explains the film screen as a psychic structure.

Originally published in 1984.

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Robert T. Eberwein

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Robert T. Eberwein uses a hypothesis from psychoanalytic theory to explore the frequently noticed similarity between dreaming and watching a film. His comprehensive study of the relationship between films and dreams explains the film screen as a psychic structure. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on

Product details

• Authors: Robert Eberwein, Robert T. Eberwein, Robert Thomas Eberwein
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691612300
• ISBN: 978-0-691-61230-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Princeton Legacy Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism