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

Name: Seeing is Believing
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9780747556909
Price: 3050 KES
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ISBN: 9780747556909

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by Peter Biskind

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0747556903

ISBN-13 9780747556909

Edition New

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 3rd, 2001

Print length 384 Pages

Weight 420 grams

Dimensions 19.80 x 12.90 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Film theory & criticism Film history, theory or criticism

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Takes a 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. This work concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at, and shows us how movies that appear politically innocent in fact bear an ideological burden.

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 organization men and rugged individualists, housewives, and career women, cops and docs, 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 time in action.

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