Cinephilia in the Global Village -or- 1001 Dream Factory Films
Planet Hollywood -or- Visual Culture in the Global Village
The use of dream vision has been a time honored literary device. When the machinery for film was invented dream vision moved into that new medium. Many films made for the silver screen and the small TV screen have made use of dreams. Audiences go to see movies every night around the planet, movies are playing somewhere, perhaps everywhere as we speak in the 1000 TV channel global village. This dream like obsession with film has been named "cinephilia".
Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" made transparent the Hollywood dream factory's shaping and privileging of "male voyeusism" and "gaze". Film has had and is having an enormous social psychological influence on our visual and oral culture and everyday life. We can sense, hear and see these influences in our dreams.
Below are films that have been associated to a variety of dream interpretations. The films are divided into a cinematic genres. The soundtracks to many of the dreams and films are provided in the dream interpretation; "The Songbook I Write".
Animated
- "Dreams as Thought Experiments", features "The Adventures of Pinocchio".
- "Finding Never-Never Land", features "Peter Pan".
Black Comedy
- "The Kafkaesque", features the film "Dr Strangelove".
Chick Flic
- "Mysteries of Dallas", features the film "Norma Rae".
- "Porcelain Doll", features the film "Valley of the Dolls"
Comedy-Drama
- "The Way We Were", features "The Big Chill".
- "The Cosmic Joke", features the film "Stranger than Fiction".
Coming of Age
- "The Seminary Student", features the film "Girl Interupted".
Crime and Forensic
- "Escapism", features the film "Waking Life".
- "In Cold Blood", features the film "Natural Born Killers".
- "Once Upon a Time in the Global Village", features films like "The Godfather" and "Gangs of New York".
- "Post-Partum", features the film "Baby Blues"
- "The Prisoner's Dream", features "Fight Club".
- "Spellbound in the Global Village", features Hitchcock's "Spellbound" as well as a host of other Hitchcocks.
Documentary
- "American Industrial Complex" features a host of films including "An Inconvienient Truth".
- "Endangered Species", features Rachael Carson's "Silent Spring".
- "Remembering the Cold War", features the docudrama "13 Days" and a montage of other Cold war films.
Drama
- "Dreaming of Princess Diana", features the film "The Queen".
- "Fear and Loathing in the Global Village", features the film "The World Trade Centre"
- "The Dream Game Theory", features the film "Catch 22".
Epic
- "Civilizations Die from Suicide", features the film "Dr Jeykll and Mr Hyde".
- "Dream Vision and the Arab Oral Tradition", features the Disney film "Alladin".
Fantasy
- "Gulliver's Travels in Visual Culture"
- "I'm Just a Girl Who had a Dream", features the film "The Wizard of Oz".
Film Noir
- "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", features the film "Sunset Boulevard".
Horror
- "Gothic Fear and the Numinous", features the film "Psycho".
- "Gothic Romance -or- Dating Edward Cullen"
- "Zombie Apocalyse" features "Night of the Living Dead".
Musical
- "Striptease", features the film "Burlesque".
Political Cinema
- "George Washington -or- The Land of the Free?" features the film "The American President".
- "American Conspiracy Theory -or- Welcome to the Machine" features George Orwell's 1984.
Pornography
- "Off Color Humor -or- The Grotesque Body" features
- "Cybersex, Porn Stars, and the Adult Entertainment Industry", features the "Emmanuelle" franchise among others.
- "The Red Light District in the Global Village", features "Working Girls" among numerous other.
Road Movie
- "Breakfast in America", features the films "American Grafitti" and "Easy Rider".
Romance
- "Dreams, Cinema and Gender Ideology" features the film "Gertrud".
- "American Woman: The Fashion Industries" features "The Devil Wears Prada"
- "First Love", features "Scenes from a Marriage"
- "The Royal Road to Romance", features "Titanic" and a montage of other romantic films.
- "Students Coming of Age Stories", features the film "Where the Boys Are"
- "The Ex-Files -or- Divorce Culture" features the film Kramer vs. Kramer.
Science Fiction
- "The Hollywood Dream Factory", features "Star Wars".
- "Back to the Future", features the film "Next".
- "Dream Yoga", features the film "Altered States".
- "Fly Me to the Moon", features the film "Space Cowboys".
- "The Avant Guard Studio", features the film "Inception".
- "The Dreaming Universe", features the film "What the Bleep do We Know".
- "Welcome to the Real World", features the film "The Matrix".
Spiritual
- "The Sacred Canopy of the Dream", features the film "Avatar".
- "Unshaken Faith", features the film "City of Angels".
Thriller
- "Shared Dreaming, Shared Responsibilites", features the film "In Dreams".
- "Lucid Dreams", features the film "Vanilla Sky".
War
- "Remembering the Battle of the Bulge", features the film "Patton".
- "The Little Big Horn", features the film "Dances with Wolves".
- "The Waste Land of World War I", features "All Quiet on the Western Front".