Giving as examples such films as Bonnie and Clyde, Harold and Maude, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the author skillfully shows how the changing times have affected the context and texture of films, which coincides with the changing problems of everyday life. Newman's emphasis is strictly Kohutian, and although one should not ignore the narcissistic aspects of pathology in present-day life and films, neither should one overlook oedipal conflicts, as the author does. This is most graphically illustrated in his discussion of the film, Harold and Maude: although there is obviously a crucial narcissistic developmental breakdown in object relations in the "hero" and "heroine," the importance of the oedipal quality of the relationship is almost entirely ignored by Newman.