One of the most exhilarating periods in film history began with Easy Rider in 1969 and ended with Raging Bull in 1980, with Beverly Hills shrouded under a blanket of cocaine: at least, that's how it seemed.

A look at the Hollywood movies of the 1950s and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade. It covers films like Giant, Rebel Without A Cause and Invasion of the Body Snatchers to show how politically innocent movies in fact do bear an ideological burden. As we see organization men and rugged individualists, housewives and career women, cops and doctors, teen angels and teenage werewolves fight it out across the screen, from suburbia to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we understand that we have been watching one long dispute about how to be a man, a woman,...

An explosive expose of the men who changed independent cinema for ever in the 1990s

A collection that gives the low-down on Hollywood in the last 30 years, from the author of 'Easy Riders', 'Raging Bulls' and 'Down and Dirty Pictures'.

Youll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldnt Steven Soderbergh
Insanely readable Slavoj Zizek
Your book was ... like a bag of pot, with me saying, Im not gonna smoke. But I was insatiable Quentin Tarantino on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

In The Sky is Falling! bestselling cultural critic Peter Biskind takes us on a dizzying ride across two decades of pop culture to show how the TV and movies we love - from Game of Thrones and 24 to Homeland and Iron Man - have taught us to love political extremism. Welcome to a darkly pessimistic, apocalyptic world...