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Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Pantheon Books
Publication date October 1, 1983
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780394721156
ISBN-10 0394721152
Availability§ Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price $12.95
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Summary
Examines American films of the fiftes and discusses the implicit political and ideological concerns with which they deal
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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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Paperback
Book cover for 9780394721156 Book cover for 9780805065633
 
from Henry Holt & Co (September 1, 2000)
9780805065633 | details & prices | 371 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A new edition of a classic study of the films of the 1950s discusses how these movies reflect the social and political topography of their time, showing how works like Giant and Rebel Without a Cause offer insights into ongoing debates about the nature of America.
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from Pantheon Books (October 1, 1983)
9780394721156 | details & prices | List price $12.95
About: Examines American films of the fiftes and discusses the implicit political and ideological concerns with which they deal

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