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Gods and monsters

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An edition of Gods and monsters (2004)

Gods and monsters

thirty years of writing on film and culture from one of America's most incisive writers

by

  • 5 Want to read

"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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Nation Books
Language
English
Pages
362

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Motion pictures Culture in motion pictures Reviews Motion picture industry Film History Political aspects Social aspects History and criticism Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures, united states Motion pictures, reviews

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Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture
2016, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Gods and Monsters
2009, PublicAffairs
in English
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Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture from One of America's Most Incisive Writers
2009, PublicAffairs
in English
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Gods and Monsters
April 4, 2005, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Bloomsbury Paperbacks
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Gods and monsters: thirty years of writing on film and culture from one of America's most incisive writers
2004, Nation Books
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Gods and monsters: thirty years of writing on film and culture from one of America's most incisive writers
2004, Nation Books
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Table of Contents

Between the frames
The politics of power in On the waterfront --
War of the worlds --
Tightass and cocksucker : sexual politics in Thunderbolt and lightfoot --
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid --
Machismo and Hollywood's working class -- (with Barbara Ehrenreich)
Blue collar blues : proletarian cinema from Hollywood --
Holocaust fever --
"Come back to the mill, Nick Honey" : The deer hunter misses the target --
A balance of error? ; PBS's Vietnam : waist-deep in the Big muddy --
American film criticism (postwar) --
The last crusade -- -- Reports
The Weather Underground, take one -- (with Marc N. Weiss)
In Latin America they shoot filmmakers --
Promised land : on Sundance -- -- Auteurs
Any which way he can --
Chameleon Man --
Slouching toward Hollywood --
The making of "Blatherlands" : an imaginary conversation between Sissy Spacek and Terrence Malick -- (with Michael Silverman)
The runaway genius --
Punchin' Judy --
The man who minted style --
When Sue was queen --
Good night, dark prince.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
791.43/0973
Library of Congress
PN1993.5.U6 B56 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
xx, 362 p. ;
Number of pages
362

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24746738M
Internet Archive
godsmonstersthir00bisk
ISBN 10
1560255455
ISBN 13
9781560255451
LCCN
2005295250
OCLC/WorldCat
56826342

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OL15836634W

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