“Unabashedly autobiographical and unapologetically auteurist, Robert Kolker’s trip into the fever heat of 1950s American cinema is an eloquent and erudite delight.”
— Peter Stanfield, author of The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
“Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan’s Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America’s pop culture in the 1950’s.”
— Peter Biskind, author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
— New Books Network: New Books in Film
— New Books Network: New Books in Film
“Unabashedly autobiographical and unapologetically auteurist, Robert Kolker’s trip into the fever heat of 1950s American cinema is an eloquent and erudite delight.”
— Peter Stanfield, author of The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema
“Robert Kolker ingeniously uses George Kennan’s Cold War strategy of 'containment' as a metaphor to illuminate the complex interplay between movies and politics in this personal, yet incisive exploration of America’s pop culture in the 1950’s.”
— Peter Biskind, author of Seeing is Believing and Easy Riders, Raging Bulls