Seeing is believing

Description

"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.

First Sentence

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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Other Editions

• Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fiftiesPantheon Books1983-01-01
• Seeing is believingPantheon Books1983-01-01
• Seeing is believingPluto Press1984-01-01
• Seeing is believingPluto Press1984-01-01
• Seeing Is BelievingHolt & Company, Henry2000-01-01
• Seeing Is BelievingPaperbackOwl Books2000-09-11