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Peter Biskind
From the author of the 'stone-cold classic' Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes a blockbuster follow-up- the inside story of television's epic transformation
The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos…
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An explosive expose of the men who changed independent cinema for ever in the 1990s.
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A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018 A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us.–The Spectator (London)
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A critical analysis of the rise of independent filmmakers examines the growth of Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Festival, the rise to power of the Weinstein brothers and their company Miramax…
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Biskind offers this candid biography of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty, based in part on new interviews with colleagues and intimates, as well as Beatty himself.
Takes a look at the Hollywood fifties movies we all love - or love to hate - and the thousand subtle ways they reflect the political tensions of the decade…
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’.
The definitive look at how the 70s movie makers changed the face of cinema
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"Biskind's saga about the rise and fall of prestige television explains, in punchy, propulsive prose, how we went from Tony Soprano to…
A bestselling cultural journalist takes us on a wild ride through pop culture, showing how it paved the way for today’s extreme politics
Are Batman and 24’s Jack Bauer heroic…
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This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers–Coppola, Scorsese, Lucas, Spielberg, Altman, and Beatty–and recreates an era that transformed American culture forever. 16-page photo insert.
Based on long-lost recordings between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom, My Lunches with Orson presents a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America’s great cultural provocateur.
There have long…
