In the documentary Celluloid Closet (1995), actress Susan Sarandon said films are important - and they're dangerous - because we're the keepers of the dreams. The visual media hold a powerful sway, influencing attitudes on class, gender, race, and ethnicity, politics, religion, and sexual orientation. Dangerous Dreams: Essays on American Film and Television employs aesthetic, feminist, historical, Marxist, psychoanalytic, semiological, and...