Hollywood films .... what do they do to our psyches?
In "Schindler's List," Dr. Williams asks the film's director to explain "robbing a people of their origins."
She poignantly points out that Middle Passage descendants live without a traceable identity and unlike the majority "cannot fabricate what was deliberately stamped out of existence."
In "Breastless Women," she ponders the overwhelming thinness, lack of hip and lack of breast in the starlets and actresses we are meant to admire. Why, she asks, does America insist on starvation?
Intermixed with the contemplations on celluloid realities, Dr. Ni provides glimpses into her own psyche and the damage caused by perfect images in a world, in a home, of the woefully imperfect.
Watch a dreamer and literary artist struggle with love and barrenness in the midst of Hollywood's manufactured heavens. Buy STEVEN today!
Product Details
ISBN: 978-1-4303-1546-9
Publisher: Niama Leslie JoAnn Williams, Ph.D.
Copyright: ©2006 Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
Publication Date: October 21, 2006
107 pages
