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Gods and monsters

Gods and monsters

by Peter Biskind

2004Motion picturesCulture in motion picturesReviewsMotion picture industryFilm
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"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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Motion picturesCulture in motion picturesReviewsMotion picture industryFilmHistory
First published 2004

Setting

United States

Author

Peter Biskind

First published

2004

Pages

384

Read time

≈ 10h

Editions

6

Language

English

Publisher

PublicAffairs

ISBN

9781408882160

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