The dream life : movies, media, and the mythology of the sixties / J. Hoberman.

By: Hoberman, JMaterial type: TextTextDescription: xvii, 461 pages ; 20 cmISBN: 1565849787; 9781565849785; 1565847636; 9781565847637Subject(s): Motion pictures -- United States -- History | Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States | United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969DDC classification: 791.4309046 LOC classification: PN1993.5.U6 | H56 2005
Contents:
[Ch. 1] Making pre-history, A.D. 1960 : Enter the Hollywood freedom fighter ; Sputnik and the specter of communist earth control ; When Superman came to the supermarket ; October 1960: Spartacus vs. The Alamo ; The year's best western : the new frontier and The magnificent seven -- [Ch. 2] Glamour and anxiety: The Kennedy scenario, 1961-63 : Camelot year one: into the twilight zone ; Camelot year two: the president's double lives ; The Manchurian candidate = The secret agent of history ; Camelot down: thinking about the unthinkable ; Coups d'etat : four days in November, Seven days in May ; Dr. Strangelove's prescription -- [Ch. 3] South by southwest: Lyndon Johnson's trip, 1964-66 : Jet-age bronco busters and twilight westerns ; The cowboy election of 1964 ; Major Dundee--great society abroad ; The chase--great society at home ; Vietnam: "an oriental western" ; Gathering the tribes: Diggers, Panthers, outlaws -- [Ch. 4] If you are a Bonnie-and-Clyder--: the birth of radical chic ; Spring 1968: shooting Easy rider, Going Wild in the streets ; Creating our own reality: The Green Berets and the battle of Chicago ; The election: calling Coogan's bluff ; No future: the children of Bonnie and Clyde -- [Ch. 5] Nixon time: The war at home, 1969-71 : The end of the sixties ; America's night of the living dead (My Lai, Manson, Myra Breckinridge) ; Spring 1970: Patton over Cambodia ; Generational war in the dream life: Hey Joe (where you goin' with that gun in your hand?) ; The last round-up: counterculture psychodrama and hippie westerns, 1971 ; The legal vigilante: Dirty Harry and tricky Dick -- [Ch. 6] After the orgy, from Blowup to Blow Out : Flash-forward to 1968: Shampoo ; The 1972 campaign: Warren, George, Jane, and The candidate ; The Nixon western ; Cin�e paranoia: conspiracies unmasked, 1973-75 ; Freedomland 1981: Ronald Reagan and the last sixties movie.
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Originally published by The New Press, 2003.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 410-433) and index.

[Ch. 1] Making pre-history, A.D. 1960 : Enter the Hollywood freedom fighter ; Sputnik and the specter of communist earth control ; When Superman came to the supermarket ; October 1960: Spartacus vs. The Alamo ; The year's best western : the new frontier and The magnificent seven -- [Ch. 2] Glamour and anxiety: The Kennedy scenario, 1961-63 : Camelot year one: into the twilight zone ; Camelot year two: the president's double lives ; The Manchurian candidate = The secret agent of history ; Camelot down: thinking about the unthinkable ; Coups d'etat : four days in November, Seven days in May ; Dr. Strangelove's prescription -- [Ch. 3] South by southwest: Lyndon Johnson's trip, 1964-66 : Jet-age bronco busters and twilight westerns ; The cowboy election of 1964 ; Major Dundee--great society abroad ; The chase--great society at home ; Vietnam: "an oriental western" ; Gathering the tribes: Diggers, Panthers, outlaws -- [Ch. 4] If you are a Bonnie-and-Clyder--: the birth of radical chic ; Spring 1968: shooting Easy rider, Going Wild in the streets ; Creating our own reality: The Green Berets and the battle of Chicago ; The election: calling Coogan's bluff ; No future: the children of Bonnie and Clyde -- [Ch. 5] Nixon time: The war at home, 1969-71 : The end of the sixties ; America's night of the living dead (My Lai, Manson, Myra Breckinridge) ; Spring 1970: Patton over Cambodia ; Generational war in the dream life: Hey Joe (where you goin' with that gun in your hand?) ; The last round-up: counterculture psychodrama and hippie westerns, 1971 ; The legal vigilante: Dirty Harry and tricky Dick -- [Ch. 6] After the orgy, from Blowup to Blow Out : Flash-forward to 1968: Shampoo ; The 1972 campaign: Warren, George, Jane, and The candidate ; The Nixon western ; Cin�e paranoia: conspiracies unmasked, 1973-75 ; Freedomland 1981: Ronald Reagan and the last sixties movie.

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