Me, Myself, and Irene (2000) Dir: B. Farrelly and P. Farrelly. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Mean Girls (2004) Dir: M. Waters. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Mean Streets (1973) Dir: M. Scorsese. United States: Warner Brothers.
Midnight Express (1978) Dir: A. Parker. United States: Casablanca Filmworks.
Midnight in Paris (2011) Dir: W. Allen. United States: Gravier Productions and Mediapro.
Mommie Dearest (1981) Dir: F. Perry. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Mr. Jones (1993) Dir: M. Figgis. United States: TriStar Pictures.
My Girl (1991) Dir: H. Zieff. United States: Columbia Pictures Corporation and Imagine Entertainment.
Naked Gun, The: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) Dir: D. Zucker. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Natural Born Killers (1994) Dir: O. Stone. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master (1988) Dir: R. Harlin. United States: New Line Cinema, Heron Communications, and Smart Egg Pictures.
Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984) Dir: W. Craven. United States: New Line Cinema.
North by Northwest (1959) Dir: A. Hitchcock. United States: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Notebook, The (2004) Dir: N. Cassavetes. United States: New Line Cinema and Gran Via.
Notorious (1946) Dir: A. Hitchcock. United States: RKO Radio Pictures.
Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) Dir: T. Hackford. United States: Lorimar Film Entertainment.
Old Yeller (1957) R. Stevenson. United States: Walt Disney Productions.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) Dir: M. Forman. United States: United Artists.
Ordinary People (1980) Dir: R. Redford. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Paddle-to-the-Sea (1969) Dir: B. Mason. United States: Favorite Films.
Paranormal Activity (2007) Dir: O. Peli. United States: Blumhouse Productions.
Paris, Texas (1984) Dir: W. Wenders. West Germany: Road Movies Filmproduktion. France: Argos Films.
Passion of the Christ, The (2004) Dir: M. Gibson. United States: Icon Productions.
Pirate, The (1948) Dir: V. Minnelli. United States: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Poseidon Adventure, The (1972) Dir: R. Neame. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Pretty Woman (1990) Dir: G. Marshall. United States: Touchstone Pictures.
Prince of Tides, The (1991) Dir: B. Streisand. United States: Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Program, The (1993) Dir: D.S. Ward. United States: The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Touchstone Pictures.
Psycho (1960) Dir: A. Hitchcock. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Pulp Fiction (1994) Dir: Q. Tarantino. United States: Miramax Films.
Pursuit of Happyness, The (2006) Dir: G. Muccino. United States: Columbia Pictures Corporation and Relativity Media.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Dir: S. Spielberg. United States: Paramount Pictures and Lucasfilm.
Rashomon (1950) Dir: A. Kurosawa. Japan: Daiei Motion Picture Company.
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Dir: N. Ray. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Requiem for a Dream (2000) Dir: D. Aronofsky. United States: Artisan Entertainment.
Reservoir Dogs (1992) Dir: Q. Tarantino. United States: Live America, Inc. and Dog Eat Dog Productions, Inc.
Robe, The (1953) Dir: H. Koster. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Rocky Horror Picture Show, The (1975) Dir: J. Sharman. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Rome, Open City (1945) Dir: R. Rossellini. Italy: Excelsa Film.
Romeo + Juliet (1996) Dir: B. Luhrman. United States: Bazmark Films and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Rosebud [Television series episode] (1993) Dir: M. Fresco. In Northern Exposure. United States: Falahey/Austin Street Productions.
Saturday Night Fever (1977) Dir: J. Badham. United States: Robert Stigwood Productions.
Saving Private Ryan (1998) Dir: S. Spielberg. United States: Amblin Entertainment.
Saw (2004) Dir: J. Wan. United States: Evolution Entertainment, Saw Productions, Inc., and Twisted Productions.
Scary Movie (2000) Dir: K. Wayans. United States: Dimension Pictures, Wayans Bros. Entertainment, and Gold/Miller Productions.
Schindler's List (1993) Dir: S. Spielberg. United States: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment.
Scream (1996) Dir: W. Craven. United States: Dimension Films.
Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) Dir: S. Zaillian. United States: Mirage Entertainment.
Seven Samurai (1954) Dir: A. Kurosawa. Japan: Toho Company.
Sex and the City (2008) Dir: M.P. King. United States: New Line.
Shakespeare in Love (1998) Dir: J. Madden. United States: Universal Pictures, Miramax Films, and Bedford Falls Productions.
Shining, The (1980) Dir: S. Kubrick. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Shutter Island (2010) Dir: M. Scorsese. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) Dir: J. Demme. United States: Orion Pictures.
Sixth Sense, The (1999) Dir: M. Night Shyamalan. United States: Kennedy/Marshall/Barry Mendel Production, Hollywood Pictures, and Spyglass Entertainment.
Social Network, The (2010) Dir: D. Fincher. United States: Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Sound of Music, The (1965) Dir: R. Wise. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Robert Wise Productions.
Speed (1994) Dir: J. de Bont. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Spellbound (1945) Dir: A. Hitchcock. United States: Vanguard Films, Selznick International Pictures, and United Artists.
Spider-Man (2002) Dir: S. Raimi. United States: Columbia Pictures.
Stagecoach (1939) Dir: J. Ford. United States: Walter Wanger Productions.
Stand By Me (1986) Dir: R. Reiner. United States: Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Star Wars: Episodes I-III (1999-2005) Dir: G. Lucas. United States: Lucasfilm.
Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (1977) Dir: G. Lucas. United States: Lucasfilm.
Star Wars: Episode V—The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Dir: I. Kershner. United States: Lucasfilm.
Star Wars: Episode VI—Return of the Jedi (1983) Dir: R. Marquand. United States: Lucasfilm.
Steel Magnolias (1989) Dir: H. Ross. United States: Rastar Films.
Story of O, The (1975) Dir: J. Jaeckin. France: AD Productions and S.N. Prodis.
Straw Dogs (1971) Dir: S. Peckinpah. United States: ABC Pictures.
Sucker Punch (2011) Dir: Z. Snyder. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Taxi Driver (1976) Dir: M. Scorsese. United States: Columbia Pictures Corporation.
Ten Commandments, The (1956) Dir: C.B. DeMille. United States: Paramount Pictures and Motion Picture Associates.
Terms of Endearment (1983) Dir: J.L. Brooks. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (2003) Dir: M. Nispel. United States: Radar Pictures, Platinum Dunes, and Next Entertainment.
Thelma & Louise (1991) Dir: R. Scott. United States: Pathé Entertainment.
Three Came Home (1950) Dir: J. Negulesco. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Three Faces of Eve, The (1957) Dir: N. Johnson. United States: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.
Tin Cup (1996) Dir: R. Shelton. United States: Regency Enterprises and Warner Bros. Pictures.
Titanic (1997) Dir: J. Cameron. United States: Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, and Light Storm Entertainment.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Dir: R. Mulligan. United States: Universal International Pictures.
Town Without Pity (1961) Dir: G. Reinhardt. United States: The Mirisch Corporation.
Toy Story 3 (2010) Dir: L. Unkrich. United States: Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.
Transformers (2007) Dir
: M. Bay. United States: DreamWorks SKG and Paramount Pictures.
Tree of Life (2011) Dir: T. Malick. United States: Cottonwood Pictures, Plan B Entertainment, and River Road Entertainment.
Triumph of the Will (1935) Dir: L. Riefenstahl. Germany: Leni Riefenstahl-Produktion & Reichspropagandaleitung der NSDAP.
Tromeo & Juliet (1996) Dir: L. Kaufman. United States: Troma Entertainment.
Twilight (2008) Dir: C. Hardwicke. United States: Summit Entertainment.
Un Chien Andalau (1929) Dir: L. Buñuel. France.
Usual Suspects, The (1995) Dir: B. Singer. United States: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Spelling Films International.
Vertigo (1958) Dir: A. Hitchcock. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Virgin Suicides, The (1999) Dir: S. Coppola. United States: American Zoetrope, Eternity Pictures, Muse Productions, and Virgin Suicides, LLC.
Waiting for Superman (2010) Dir: D. Guggenheim. United States: Electric Kinney Films, Participant Media, and Walden Media.
What About Bob? (1991) Dir: F. Oz. United States: Touchstone Pictures.
When Harry Met Sally (1989) Dir: R. Reiner. United States: Castle Rock Entertainment and Nelson Entertainment.
White Christmas (1954) Dir: M. Curtiz. United States: Paramount Pictures.
Why We Fight (1942-1945) Dir: F. Capra. United States.
Wizard of Oz, The (1939) Dir: V. Fleming. United States: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895) Dir: A. Lumière and L. Lumière. France.
Wrong Man, The (1956) Dir: A. Hitchcock. United States: Warner Bros. Pictures.
Index
Alcoholism: see substance abuse
Allen, Woody narcissistic parasites
Annie Hall
Mia Farrow and
Husbands and Wives
therapy in films
films as psychological outlets
American Film Institute AFI List of Top 50 films
Analyze This
Annie Hall: see Woody Allen
Apparent motion
Archetypal theory: see Carl Jung
Aronofsky, Darren
As Good As It Gets
Auteur theory
Autobiographical functions of movies
Avatar
Bandura, Albert
Basic Instinct
Bates, Norman as homicidal maniac
Battleship Potemkin
Bazin, Andre
Beautiful Mind, A
Beauty and the Beast
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Big Sleep, The
Bipolar disorder
Black Swan
Blade Runner
Blockbusters
Blow Up
Bobo doll experiment: see Albert Bandura
Bogart, Humphrey
Borderline personality disorder
Bordwell, David
Box office: study of top 20
predictors of success
Bruner, Jerome
Burke, Kenneth
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
Casablanca
Children: film inspired aggression
violence in programming
fairy tales
viewing habits of
smoking and
media effects
educational value of film
parent-child issues
Cinematherapy
Citizen Kane: AFI list
stark cinematography
camera angles
Cognitive psychology
Collective unconscious
Columbine massacre
Comedies: satirical
man-child characters
exaggerated psychological symptoms
slapstick violence
romantic
R-rated
alleviating anxiety
Comprehension
Content analysis
Coppola, Francis Ford
Copycat crimes
Cultural psychology
Cultural studies
Dallas (TV series)
Dark Knight, The
David and Lisa
Decoding meaning
Delusions
Dial “M” for Murder: see Hitchcock
Disney films: characters
educational value
Dispositional theory
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Doctor-patient confidentiality
Dog Day Afternoon
Dr. Dippy’s Sanitarium
Dramas, diminishing appeal of
Dreams and film
Drive-in theatres
Dylan, Bob
Ebert, Roger
Educational uses of film
Electro-convulsive therapy
Emotional arousal
Empire Strikes Back, The
Erikson, Erik: Eight Stages of Man
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Evolutionary psychology
Exorcist, The audience reaction
and Catholic guilt
Fatal Attraction
Father archetype
Fear Strikes Out
Feminist film theory
Fetishism
Field of Dreams
Fight Club
Foster, Jodie
Freud (film)
Freud, Sigmund at Clark University
teaching Freudian thought
sex as motivator
analysis of da Vinci
wish fulfillment
Samuel Goldwyn and
on jokes and humor
on destructive tendencies
Freudian psychoanalysis Woody Allen and
Friday the 13th
Fugue states
“Gaze, the,”
Genres and emotions
Girl, Interrupted
Godfather, The
Golden Age of Hollywood
Golden Age of psychiatry in movies
Gone with the Wind: viewing experience
as melodrama
Good Will Hunting
Graduate, The
Grand Illusion, The
Group psychology: on sets
Hall, G. Stanley
Hall, Stuart
Halloween
Hallucinations: in A Beautiful Mind
in Black Swan
Harry Potter
Haskell, Molly
Health psychology: Health-related behaviors in film
smoking
High Anxiety
Hinckley, John
Historical reception
Hitchcock, Alfred Vertigo
Psycho
Spellbound
fear of police
Notorious
marriage
obsession with lead actresses
death wish
propaganda films
Hochberg, Julian
Horror films and dispositional theory
as therapeutic
Hustler, The
Identification with film
and empathy
Ideological analysis
Implied viewer
Inception
Incongruity theory of humor
Interdisciplinarity
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Interpretive process
Joker, the, as example of mental illness
Jolie, Angelina
Jump cuts
Jung, Carl: archetypal theory
Woody Allen and
Juvenile delinquency and film
Kael, Pauline
King of Hearts
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuleshov effect
Kurosawa, Akira
Lacan, Jacques
Lecter, Hannibal
Liberal arts
Life is Beautiful
Lilith
Lord of the Rings
Lorenzo’s Oil
Love Sick
Lucas, George
Lynch, David
MacLuhan, Marshall
Marketing movies
Manic depression; see bipolar disorder
Marnie
Marx, Karl
Match-action editing
Matrix, The: and Columbine massacre
and technology
McAdams, Dan; see narrative identity theory
Me, Myself and Irene
Mean Girls
Media effects
Media literacy: importance of
MediaWatch
Method acting: see Lee Strasberg
Methodology in the study of film
Mommie Dearest
Motion pictures: historical overlap with psychoanalysis and laboratory psychology
Movie stars
Movies as art
Multiple-personality disorder: see dissociative identity disorder (DID)
Mulvey, Laura
Narcissism
Narrative identity theory
Nash, John
Natural Born Killers
Netflix
Neuroscience and the movies
“New brutalism,”
Nicholson, Jack: in The Shining
in As Good As It Gets
psychobiography
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nightmare on Elm Street
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Old Yeller: see unhappy endings
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ordinary People
Pacino, Al
Patch Adams
Perkins, Anthony
Plath, Sylvia
Polanski, Roman
Political correctness
Pornography
Positive Psychology
Postman, Neil
Priming theory of media effects
Prince of Tides, The
Propaganda
Psychoanalysis: see Freudian psychoanalysis
Psychological/psychiatric disorders: see also bipolar; borderline; dissociative identity disorder; narcissism; schizophrenia; substance abuse
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