Seeing Is Believing How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Holt Paperbacks
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Erscheinungsdatum
11.09.2000
Verlag
Holt PaperbacksSeitenzahl
372 (Printausgabe)
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781466829640
"A brilliant and imaginative analysis of the political and sexual crosscurrents of the fifties in the movies" from the
New York Times-bestselling author (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of
Nickel and Dimed).
Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind, former executive editor of
Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at-classics like
Giant,
On the Waterfront,
Rebel Without a Cause, and
Invasion of the Body Snatchers-and shows us how movies that appear to be politically innocent in fact carry 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, an American-the conflicts of the period in action.
A work of brilliant analysis and meticulous conception,
Seeing Is Believing offers fascinating insights into how to read films of any era.
"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
New York Times-bestselling author (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of
Nickel and Dimed).
Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd, witty look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love-or love to hate-and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. Peter Biskind, former executive editor of
Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at-classics like
Giant,
On the Waterfront,
Rebel Without a Cause, and
Invasion of the Body Snatchers-and shows us how movies that appear to be politically innocent in fact carry 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, an American-the conflicts of the period in action.
A work of brilliant analysis and meticulous conception,
Seeing Is Believing offers fascinating insights into how to read films of any era.
"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
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