The American Dream

Kevin Costner’s Peak as an Embodiment of the American Dream

By  Danny Bowes 

For five years, Kevin Costner exemplified the American Dream on screen.

6 Filmmaking Tips from Frank Capra

By  Christopher Campbell 

Learn what it takes to have a wonderful life making movies from one of the great American directors.

6 Films Celebrating the American (It Was All A) Dream

By  Jacob Oller 

Americans love their hopeful mantra, while movies love to undermine it with somnolent reveals.

In The Suburbs, You Told Me We’d Never Survive

By  Andrew Karpan 

Suburbia was never the American Dream we wanted, but it’s the American Dream we got.

The Hangout Film, the American Dream, and the Pursuit of Straight Chilling

By  Meg Shields 

Why the joy of comfortable stasis is our national quest.

The Classic Hollywood Charm of Cary Grant

By  Angela Morrison 

Suave, gracious, debonair  —  he personifies the idealized world of American cinema.

7 Reasons Paul Newman Was the Ultimate All-American Dreamboat

By  Ciara Wardlow 

Celebrating the Ryan Gosling that we didn’t have to import from Canada.