Cinematherapy Goes To The Oscars: The Girls Guide to the Best Movie Medicine Ever Made is back. Get ready for some of the best movie medicine ever made. The smash hit women’s film guide Cinematherapy taught women that comfort, self-acceptance, inspiration, and humor were no farther away than the video store – and inspired the daily primetime show on the WE Network (Women’s Entertainment).
Now the authors are back with a Cinematherapy take on the Oscar canon and how these award-winning films serve not only as a celluloid pharmacy but also as a window into ourselves, our relationships, and our times.
Starting with the present and working backward by decade, Cinematherapy Goes to the Oscars uncovers the grand themes of each decade’s award-winning films, from the Father Issue films of the seventies, with their ambiguous father figures (Patton, Kramer vs. Kramer) to bad girls acting out for disapproving fathers’ love (Klute, Cabaret), to the Unsung Hero films of the fifties (On the Waterfront, The African Queen).
Along the way there is great dish on who wore what on the Red Carpet, who said what in their acceptance speeches, and party tips for throwing a four-star Oscar bash, as well as returning popular sidebars like the Handy Hunk Chart.
As the first female take on these sacred cows of the Silver Screen, focusing on the moments, messages, leading ladies, and supporting men that matter to us most, Cinematherapy Goes to the Oscars is the ultimate indulgence for every woman ready to curl up and take charge of her own remote control.
About the Authors: Nancy Peske and Beverly West arefilm fanatics, best friends, identical cousins, and the coauthors of Bibliotherapy: The Girl’s Guide to Books for Every Phase of Our Lives, Meditations for Men Who Do Next to Nothing (and Would Like to Do Even Less); How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time on Five Dollars a Day; and Frankly Scarlett, I Do Give a Damn! Classic Romances Retold.
They live in New York City, where they spend much of their time debating such sophistocated cinematic polemics as the merits of Gary Oldman’s ripe Camembert excess as opposed to Alan Rickman’s quarter-pounder stoicism, and the far-reaching cultural implications of Brad Pitt’s haircut.
Authors: Nancy Peske, Beverly West
Year of Release: 2004
