Blue Velvet stars an actress.
 In a special Entertainment Weekly issue, 100 new film classics were chosen from 1983 to 2008: Blue Velvet was ranked at fourth
"Feminist psychoanalytic film theorist Laura Mulvey argues that Blue Velvet establishes a metaphorical Oedipal family"the child", Jeffrey Beaumont, and his "parents", Frank Booth and Dorothy Vallensthrough deliberate references to film noir and its underlying Oedipal theme

