Movies and the modern psyche /
Packer, Sharon.
Westport, Conn. ; London : Praeger,
2007.
Includes filmography (p. [173]-177).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-185) and index.
Introduction -- A century of psychology and cinema -- Freud and film -- The dream -- Hypnosis -- Madhouses, haunted houses, and political polemics -- Psychological thrillers and serial killers and the motif of madness -- Freudian Westerns and films noir -- Cold War paranoia and postwar PTSD -- Drugs and other demons -- Doubles and Doppelgängers -- Woody Allen's worries -- The psyche assumes physical form -- Conclusion.
Motion pictures