{"product_id":"9781466829640","title":"Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing is Believing\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative, shrewd, 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, former executive editor of Premiere, is one of our most astute cultural critics. Here he concentrates on the films everybody saw but nobody really looked at--classics like \u003ci\u003eGiant\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Waterfront\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRebel Without a Cause\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u003c\/i\u003e--and shows us how movies that appear to be politically innocent in fact carry an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and doctors, 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 period in action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of brilliant analysis and meticulous conception,\u003ci\u003e Seeing Is Believing\u003c\/i\u003e offers fascinating insights into how to read films of any era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176012693744,"sku":"9781466829640","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466829640_p0.jpg?v=1769891092","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466829640","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}