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Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love

Seeing is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love


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About the Book

A look at the Hollywood movies of the 1950s and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. It covers films like "Giant", "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" to show how politically innocent movies in fact do bear an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and doctors, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen, from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman, and an American.

About the Author :
Peter Biskind, former executive editor of Premiere, is the author of The Godfather Companion and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, he has written for amongst others The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone.

Review :
"Nothing escapes Peter Biskind and he is very funny. His book is indispensable reading for anyone interested in American cinema or recent American history."--Michael Wood, author of "America in the Movies"
"A brilliant and imaginative analysis of the political and sexual crosscurrents of the fifties in the movies."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Blood Rites"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780747556909
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Edition: New edition
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love
  • Width: 129 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0747556903
  • Publisher Date: 03 Sep 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 310 gr


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