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Article: The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties.(Book Review)
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The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties by J. Hoberman. New York, NY: The New Press, 2003. 461pp. Hardcover: $29.95.
J. Hoberman's The Dream Life: Movies, Media, and the Mythology of the Sixties, is filled with fascinating details and infused with the excitement of the era it depicts. It is also a very important book, one that will last and have a lasting influence, because of its argument and the form the author has chosen to embody it.
Hoberman's title is taken from Norman Mailer, one of the main influences he acknowledges in his introduction, along with the whole cohort of New Journalists whose writings about the Sixties were ...