Nick Nolte plays Tom Wingo, a football coach who is estranged from his wife (Blythe Danner) and who enters into an affair with the psychiatrist Susan Lowenstein (Barbara Streisand) of his suicidal sister (Melinda Dillon). As a unemployed-football-coach, Wingo is unhappy with his life. His wife doesn’t understand him and he also doesn’t get along […]
Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher (Derek Luke) is a temperamental young man with a violent past who is serving in the U.S. Navy. His father was killed before he was born and his teenage mother, Eva Mae Fisher (Viola Davis), was arrested and put in jail where she gave birth to him. Antwone was placed in an orphanage […]
Movies and the Modern Psyche
By looking at the interactions between cinema and psychology, Packer offers readers clear and basic insights into some of the most fundamental reasons why film is such an important influence upon our lives today. Movies and the Modern Psyche first describes the basic concepts of psychoanalysis, experimental psychology, behavioral conditioning, and hypnosis, which have all […]
Film After Jung: Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory
Popular film as a medium of communication, expression and storytelling has proved one of the most durable and fascinating cultural forms to emerge during the twentieth century, and has long been the object of debate, discussion and interpretation. Film After Jung provides the reader with an overview of the history of film theory and delves […]
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