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

Author: Peter Biskind Year: 1983 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Movies, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780747556909 9780805065633 0747556903 0805065636

A look at the Hollywood movies of the 1950s and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. It covers films like Giant, Rebel Without A Cause and Invasion of the Body Snatchers to show how politically innocent movies in fact do bear 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, and an American. Similar books: The Genius of the System by Thomas Schatz Sin in Soft Focus by Mark A. Vieira Easy riders, raging bulls by Peter Biskind The Hollywood Studios by Ethan Mordden The Whole Equation by David Thomson The Studio by John Gregory Dunne The MGM Story by John Douglas Eames Pictures at a Revolution by Mark Harris Down and Dirty Pictures by Peter Biskind Complicated Women by Mick LaSalle A Woman's View by Jeanine Basinger Picture by Lillian Ross The Classical Hollywood Cinema by David Bordwell Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Movies by Richard Griffith The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer