Seeing Is Believing

by Peter Biskind

Book Overview

Seeing is Believing 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 Giant, On the Waterfront, Rebel Without a Cause, and Invasion of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394721152
• ISBN13: 9780394721156
• Release Date: October 1983
• Publisher: Pantheon Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.