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 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, On the Waterfront, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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History, Motion pictures, Moving-pictures, Political aspects of Motion pictures, Political aspects of Moving-pictures, Cinéma, Aspect politique, Histoire, Motion pictures, political aspects, Motion pictures, history, Motion pictures, united states, Political aspectsPlaces
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Seeing Is Believing
September 3, 2001, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Paperback
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0747556903 9780747556909
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Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
September 11, 2000, Owl Books
Paperback
in English
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0805065636 9780805065633
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Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
2000, Holt & Company, Henry
in English
1466829648 9781466829640
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Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties
1984, Pluto Press
in English
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0394527291 9780394527291
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Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties
1984, Pluto Press
in English
0861047435 9780861047437
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Seeing is believing: film and politics in the 1950s
1983, Pantheon Books
in English
0394527291 9780394527291
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Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties
1983, Pantheon Books
in English
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"We are presented with a shot of the massive facade of the Supreme Court Building in New York's Foley Square."
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