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Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties

Peter Biskind

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties. To get started finding Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties. To get started finding Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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