Seeing Is Believing: How Hollywood Taught Us to Stop Worrying and Love the Fifties

"A brilliant and imaginative analysis of the political and sexual crosscurrents of the fifties in the movies" from the New York Times–bestselling author (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed).
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. ...