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

by J. Hoberman

Book Overview

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, epigrammatic prose," as Scott put...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565847636
• ISBN13: 9781565847637
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.3" x 8.2"