Seeing Is Believing: Or How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the '50s by Peter Biskind

Seeing Is Believing: Or How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the '50s

Peter Biskind

382 pages first pub 1983 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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 movie...

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