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42nd Street / J. Hoberman London: BFI Publishing, 1993.
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An Army of Phantoms : American movies and the making of the Cold War / by J.Hoberman New York: The New Press, c2011.
Call No: 71(73) HOBAuthor: Hoberman, J. Source: US/UKPlace: New YorkPublisher: The New PressPubDate: c2011PhysDes: xxi, 383 p. ; 24 cmSubject: CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1940's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1950's ; USA ; FORT APACHE (US, John Ford, 1948) ; RIO GRANDE (US, John Ford, 1950) ; HIGH NOON (US, Fred Zinnemann, 1952) ; ABOVE AND BEYOND (US, Frank Melvin & Norman Panama, 1952) ; THEM! (US, Gordon Douglas, 1954) ; KISS ME DEADLY (US, Robert Aldrich, 1955) ; REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (US, Nicholas Ray, 1955) Summary: " An Army of Phantoms- a major new work of film history and cultural criticism from J. Hoberman, one of the foremost film critics writing today addresses the dynamic synergy of American politics and American popular culture during the Cold War's first decade.
Heralded by a mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the years between 1946 and 1956 brought an explosion of affluence and anxiety. Along with U.S. dominance over Europe and a new war in Asia came the birth of the civil rights movement and the first stirrings of a new youth culture. The period saw the movie industry purged of its political left at the same time as the ideological action hero John Wayne reached the peak of his career.
Analyzing Hollywood's cavalry Westerns, apocalyptic sci-fi flicks, and biblical spectaculars, along with media events, congressional hearings and political campaigns, and drawing on FBI files and studio records, Hoberman has orchestrated a colorful, sometimes surreal pageant wherein Cecil B. DeMille rubs shoulders with Douglas MacArthur, atomic tests are shown on live TV, God talks on the radio, and Joe McCarthy is bracketed with Marilyn Monroe.
Essential reading for film and history buffs, An Army of Phantoms expands on the analysis of the 1960's found in Hoberman's critically acclaimed The Dream Life and offers a lively and astute history of film that is also, to paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard, about the film of history." --Book Jacket.Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-366) and indexISBN: 9781595580054Contents: Acknowledgments -- introduction: from God's mouth to your ear -- prologue: mission for Hollywood - Stalingrad to V-J Day -- Pt. 1. Aliens among us : Hollywood, 1946-47 -- pt. 2. Fighting for the ministry of truth, justice, and the American way, 1948-50 -- pt. 3. Redskin menace from outer space : America at war, 1950-52 -- pt. 4. The PaxAmericanArama : Eisenhower power, 1953-55 -- pt. 5. Searchin' : America on the road, 1955-56 -- epilogue: the face of the crowd -- sources -- index --
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Bridge of light : Yiddish films between two worlds / by J. Hoberman New York: Schocken Books, 1991.
Call No: 451-054(=924) HOBAuthor: Hoberman, J. Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Schocken BooksPubDate: 1991PhysDes: 401p. : illus. : 24cm.Subject: HISTORY AND THE CINEMA ; JEWS AND THE CINEMA Notes: Includes appendix, glossary, bibliography and index.ISBN: 0805241078
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The dream life : movies, media and the mythology of the sixties / by J. Hoberman New York: New Press, 2005.
Call No: 71"196"(73) HOBAuthor: Hoberman, J. Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: New PressPubDate: 2005PhysDes: 461 p. ; 20 cmSubject: USA ; USA. 1960's ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA ; POLITICS AND THE CINEMA. USA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA ; CULTURE AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY AND THE CINEMA. USA ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. 1960's ; HISTORY OF CINEMA. USA ; SPARTACUS (US, Stanley Kubrick, 1960) ; ALAMO, THE (US, John Wayne, 1960) ; MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE (UK, John Sturges, 1960) ; MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, THE (US, John Frankenheimer, 1962) ; SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (US, John Frankenheimer, 1963) ; [DOCTOR] DR STRANGELOVE: OR, HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (UK, Stanley Kubrick, 1964) ; CHASE, THE (US, Arthur Penn, 1966) ; EASY RIDER (US, Dennis Hopper, 1969) ; COOGAN'S BLUFF (US, Don Siegel, 1968) ; BONNIE AND CLYDE (US, Arthur Penn, 1967) ; MYRA BRECKENRIDGE (US, Mike Sarne, 1970) ; PATTON (US, Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970) ; DIRTY HARRY (US, Don Siegel, 1971) ; SHAMPOO (US, Hal Ashby, 1975) Summary: "Here is a major new cultural history of the Sixties. 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" (A.O Scott), Hoberman moves from the political histories of movies to the theater of wars, national political campaigns, and pop-culture events. With entertaining reinterpretations of key Hollywood movies such as Bonnie and Clyde, The Wild Bunch, and Shampoo, and meditations on personages ranging from John Wayne and Patty Hearst to Jane Fonda, Ronald Reagan, and Che Guevara. Hoberman reconstructs the hidden poltical history of 1960s cinema and the spectacular formation of America's mass-mediated politics" -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Originally published: 2003ISBN: 1565849787Contents: -- acknowledgments -- introduction: "suddenly...It's 1960!" -- I. Making pre-history, A.D. 1960 -- Enter the Hollywood Freedom fighter -- sputnik and the Spector 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 -- II. 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 -- III. 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 -- IV. Born to be wild: Outlaws of America, 1967-69 -- 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 -- V. 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 -- VI. 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 -- Cine paranoia: conspiracies unmasked, 1973-75 -- freedomland 1981: Ronald Reagan and the Last Sixties Movie -- source notes -- index --
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Make my day : movie culture in the age of Reagan / J. Hoberman New York: New Press,
Call No: 71"198"(73) HOBAuthor: Hoberman, J. Place: New YorkPublisher: New PressPhysDes: xii, 398 pages; illustrations ; 23 cmSubject: COMMUNISM AND THE CINEMA. USA ; APOCALYPSE NOW (US, Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) ; BACK TO THE FUTURE [...] (US, Robert Zemeckis, 1985-90) ; CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (US, Steven Spielberg, 1977) ; COPPOLA, FRANCIS FORD ; CRUISE, TOM ; EASTWOOD, CLINT ; E.T. THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (US, Steven Spielberg, 1982) ; FONDA, JANE ; GHOSTBUSTERS (US, Ivan Reitman, 1984) ; HEARTBREAK RIDGE (US, Clint Eastwood, 1986) ; KAEL, PAULINE ; LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, THE (US/CN, Martin Scorsese, 1988) ; MADONNA ; MILIUS, JOHN ; MUSIC TELEVISION ; REAGAN RONALD ; RIGHT STUFF, THE (US, Philip Kaufman, 1983) ; ROCKY (US, John G. Avildsen, 1976) ; RED DAWN (US, John Milius, 1984) ; STONE, OLIVER ISBN: 9781595580061
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