Americans have fallen deeply in love with that beguiling conspiracy of light and darkness and color and silence and sound and music that we call the movies. Film megastar Matt Damon says it this way: “Movies are one of the few things that bind us, that allow people to experience the same dreams and memories when they’re sitting in a theater.” In the movie theater, and increasingly on smaller screens, the boundaries between real and reel wavers and blurs. Something has happened to our American language—and I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. You’ll probably recognize the second part of that statement as a borrowing from the film The Wizard of Oz. Being transported out of Kansas is one