The Dream Life: Movies,Media,and the Mythology of the Sixties - Softcover

Hoberman, J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1565849787 ISBN 13: 9781565849785

Publisher: The New Press, 2005

Synopsis

The Dream Life In what the New York Times's A. O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force," J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and Watergate-as well as the tele-saturation of the American market and the advent of Pop art. In "elegant... Full description

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"One of the most vital cultural histories I’ve ever read. Hoberman’s deceptively easygoing yet deliriously compacted prose threads history through movie lore through McLuhanesque media criticism. . . . An extraordinary publishing event." David Edelstein, Slate

"So invigorating that I had to ration myself to a chapter a week." John Patterson, The Guardian

"Nobody in America writes as well about culture and film as J. Hoberman." Peter Biskind

"Packs a salient and unique wallop." Publishers Weekly

Synopsis:

In what the New York Times' A.O. Scott called a "suave, scholarly tour de force," J. Hoberman delivers a brilliant and witty look at the decade when politics and pop culture became one. This was the era of the Missile Gap and the Space Race, the Black and Sexual Revolutions, the Vietnam War and Watergate - as well as the tele-saturation of the American market and the advent of Pop art. In "elegant, epigrammatic prose," as Scott put it, Hoberman moves from the political histories of movies to the theatre of wars, national political campaigns, and pop culture events. With entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies (such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Shampoo), and meditations on personages from Che Guevara, John Wayne, and Patty Hearst to Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Dirty Harry, Hoberman reconstructs the hidden political history of 1960s cinema and the formation of America's mass-mediated politics.

About this edition

• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1565849787
• ISBN 13: 9781565849785
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 461