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The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
The Dream Life Movies Media and the Mythology of the Sixties
Author: J. Hoberman
A witty and penetrating look at the celluloid culture of the 1960s by the Village Voice's celebrated film critic. In The Dream Life, Village Voice film critic J. Hoberman turns his attention to the 1960s, the era when politics and culture became one. With wildly entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies (such as Dr...  more », and Shampoo), Hoberman reconstructs the hidden political history of 1960s cinema. Meanwhile, against the pageantry of four national elections—1960 to 1972—he describes the formation of America's spectacular, image-laden political culture. In the era when the missile gap, the sexual revolution, and the Vietnam War became inseparable from the triumph of television, the development of political image-making, and the advent of Pop Art, American politics, mass media, and publicity became the new social spectacle. Through meditations on the personas of Che Guevara, John Wayne, Patty Hearst, Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Dirty Harry, Hoberman moves deftly between the political backgrounds of movies and the fantastic dimensions of politics, producing a brilliant and comic cultural history of the rise of our mass-mediated politics.
ISBN-13: 9781565847637
ISBN-10: 1565847636
Publication Date: 10/2003
Pages: 400
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Publisher: New Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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