Click Here To Read: Freud at the Bijou by Harvey Roy Greenberg.
Dr Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website, http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.
A Book Review of Empire of Dreams by Andrew M. Gordon (paperback $26.95 ) Bowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. 2008
by Bennett Roth Ph.D.
Published originally in Projections
My qualifications for reviewing this book are multiple: first there is my psychoanalytic training ; second, my love of movies; and finally the fact that my children came of age with these films and they either took me, or I took them to these movies. So as a Dad I took at least one of my children to all the films except “Duel” (1971) and “Always” that Professor Gordon has represented in this current consolidated offering of his papers on Spielberg’s films . Continue reading Taking Spielberg Seriously
The opening scenes of The Bridges of Madison County remind us of our mortality.
A brother and sister meet at the Iowa farmhouse they grew up in to settle their mother’s estate. They are dismayed to discover that she had asked to be cremated and to have her ashes spread from one of the town’s old covered bridges. As they go through the papers she has left them, they find out about an important secret—a four day affair she had had with a freelance photographer years earlier. He had already arranged to have her spread his ashes at the same place. In her initial note of explanation, Francesca Johnson writes: “It’s hard to write this to my own children. I could let this die with the rest of me, I suppose, but as one gets older, one’s fears subside. What becomes more and more important is to be known, known for all that you were during this brief stay. How sad it seems to me to leave this Earth without those you love the most ever really knowing who you were.” Continue reading The Bridges of Madison County: Erotic Fantasy, Woman’s Madonna/Prostitute and a Touch of Incest
