Download or read book American Life and Movies from The Ten Commandments to Twilight written by Daniel Benjamin and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? In this curious and entertaining book, readers will learn that both are true. Author Daniel Benjamin takes readers on a journey from the gritty realism of post-World War II cinema through the innovations of the 1960s to the blockbuster hits of the 1980s and the very mixed bag of the early twenty-first century. This record of the ever-changing world of American culture is highlighted with a fabulous variety of photographs from the last six decades.