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

Paperback • 2001 • English

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

By Peter Biskind

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Seeing is Believing is a provocative, shrewd and 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 concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at, classics such as Giant, Rebel Without a Cause and Invasion of the Body Snatchers and shows us how movies that appear politically innocent in fact bear an ideological burden. As we see organisation men and rugged i...Show more

Films, cinema
Film history, theory or criticism
Narrative theme: Politics

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ISBN

9780747556909

Publisher

Bloomsbury

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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