{"product_id":"the-dream-life-j-hoberman-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Hoberman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1565849787\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781565849785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 6.02w x 1.41d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/14\/2005 pg. 24","brand":"J. Hoberman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989313945855,"sku":"9781565849785","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a3c1e717-a797-4039-b446-3b0dd53f1e34.jpg?v=1683298803","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dream-life-j-hoberman-9781565849785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}