The American Dream
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Adapting The Great American Novel: A Big Screen History
Great American novels preserve a moment in time. Do their film adaptations do the same?
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The American Dream is Gonna Eat You, Too
Dictators and cannibals. What do you think about on the Fourth of July? Apple pie?
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Gatsby’s Green Light, as Told through Cinema
An exploration of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’ and how it finally deals with The Green Light.
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California Dreamin’: How the Golden State is Used to Subvert the American Dream
Over a century’s worth of dreams have been chased to the West Coast state, so it’s no wonder that California’s sunny locales have been used in skeptical, neurotic movies about the American Dream to make their brutal subversion of it all the more cutting. Here, we take a look at how this has been done.
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Cinema’s Vision of The American Dream Through the Years
Chasing the American Dream can be a lonely endeavor.
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The American Ideal of Speaking Truth to Power in ’12 Angry Men’
Encouraging the lone voice as the ultimate patriotic act.
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‘Gone Girl’ and the Inverted American Dream
“What’s the point of being together if you’re not the happiest?”
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How Old Hollywood Made America Believe It Was The American Dream Factory
Back when you could just move out to the coast and become a big star.
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Freedom, Hypocrisy, and ‘The People vs. Larry Flynt’
A look back at the story of an outsider who stood up for our freedom (to peddle smut).
