SOURCE: "Wolves through the Window: Writing Dreams / Dreaming Films / Filming Dreams," in Critical Survey, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1991, pp. 283-89.

In the following excerpt, Collick discusses the role of dreams in Jordan's The Company of Wolves and asserts that "What is being offered appears to be a parody of the Freudian dream work in which the dream symbols, instead of being scrambled images or 'puzzles' that represent unconscious wishes, turn out to be familiar literary images."

In this essay I'm going to discuss films of texts which have dreams or dreaming as their central theme. Movies and dreams have always been closely linked. Cinema history is filled with examples of movies that try to imitate the imagery and structure of the dream world, either by making the entire film appear like a dream or by including dreams in the narrative. Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou presents the audience with...