Dreams of Flight

"Snappy and engaging but also intellectually rigorous. Offers a thoughtful critique of a well-remembered (but rarely studied) film and uses its analysis to offer deeper insights into American culture in the 1960s."--Patrick Keating, author of The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical Hollywood "Dana Polan makes a powerful case for The Great Escape's prominence within the generic evolution and the larger sweep of motion-picture history, leaving no stones unturned in his exhaustive research and painstaking analysis."--Noah Isenberg, author of Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins