Books by J. Hoberman and Complete Book Reviews

THE DREAM LIFE: Movies
THE DREAM LIFE: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties
J. Hoberman, Author . New Press $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-56584-763-7
For a book that doesn't so much drive home an overarching thesis about its subject as unravel particular events that are dense with historical, political and cinematic import, this assessment of the 1960s and its aftermath by longtime Village...
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An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
An Army of Phantoms: American Movies and the Making of the Cold War
J. Hoberman, New Press, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59558-005-4
Village Voice film critic Hoberman offers the first installment of a projected three-volume chronicle of American films during the cold war years 1946–1956. Since Hoberman sees politics "filtered through the prism of Hollywood movies—their scenarios,
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Film After Film: Or
Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?
J. Hoberman. Verso (Norton, dist.), $19.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-84467-751-1
Hoberman, senior film critic at the Village Voice, posits in the preface to this erudite study that the switch from photographic to digital technology, along with the events of 9/11 (particularly as a visual spectacle), have irrevocably altered...
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