Gods and Monsters - Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Peter Biskind is the author of four previous books. Currently a contributor to Vanity Fair , he was formerly the executive editor of Premiere and has written for numerous publications. He lives in Columbia County, New York. Klappentext Here is Hollywood over the last three decades - the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans, and the occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career. Biskind began as a radical journalist and film critic. Now he can legitimately describe himself - as he does in the autobiographical introduction to this book - as a 'recovering celebrity journalist'. At the heart of the book are the likes of Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Sue Mengers, and über-producer Don Simpson, all of whom Biskind portrays in great Dickensian detail, charting how they have had a simultaneously strangulating and liberating effect on the industry. Zusammenfassung 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'.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Biskind, Biskind Peter
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2005
• EAN: 9780747580942
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-8094-2
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 124 mm x 196 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Film: general, reference works; California, Film, TV & radio, Dance & Other Performing Arts