Seeing Is Believing; How Hollywood Taught Us To Stop Worrying and Love the 50s

Deeply, deeply disappointing stuff from the author of the brilliant Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. The formula:

1) Establish an unconvincing political dichotomy in 1950s art between radicals and centrists
2) Shoehorn every movie you've ever seen into said dichotomy
3) Write a dodgy undergraduate thesis on the subject and get it published

It's rare to be so frustrated with a book.