Gods and monsters
thirty years of writing on film and culture from one of America's most incisive writers
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Word Count
90,500 words, Guess
Page Count
362 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegodsmonstersthir00bisk
- ISBN-101560255455
- ISBN-139781560255451
- LibraryThing194417
- Library of Congress Control Number2005295250
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number56826342
- Open LibraryOL3437524M
Classifications
- DDC791.43/0973
- LCCPN1993.5.U6 B56 2004
Description
"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, excavating the likes of Rocky and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot for their hidden political subtexts in small lefty rags. Now he can legitimately describe himself - as he does in his autobiographical introduction to this book - as a "recovering celebrity journalist."" "The ghosts of McCarthyism and the blacklist haunt Gods and Monsters as do the casualties of the counterculture and the New Hollywood. At the heart of the book are the likes of Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Terrence Malick, Sue Mengers, and uber-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."--BOOK JACKET.
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