{"product_id":"the-dream-life-movies-media-and-the-mythology-of-the-sixties-9781565849785","title":"The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn what the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 it, Hoberman moves from the political histories of movies to the theater of wars, national political campaigns, and pop culture events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies (such as \u003ci\u003eBonnie and Clyde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Bunch\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eShampoo\u003c\/i\u003e), and meditations on personages from Che Guevara, John Wayne, and Patty Hearst to Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Dirty Harry, Hoberman reconstructs the hidden political history of 1960s cinema and the formation of America's mass-mediated politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJ. Hoberman is the author, co-author, or editor of a dozen books, including the trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Life\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Army of Phantoms\u003c\/i\u003e, and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eFound Illusions\u003c\/i\u003e (all from The New Press) and \u003ci\u003eFilm After Film\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e; contributes the \"On Video\" column for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e; has taught cinema history at Cooper Union since 1990; and was, for over thirty years, a film critic for the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356698939666,"sku":"9781565849785","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6af37cec-cd1f-461e-8a8b-60fd78d82435.jpg?v=1728312590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-dream-life-movies-media-and-the-mythology-of-the-sixties-9781565849785","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}