02573cam a2200349 a 4500 112563 112563 BJBSDDR 20230411090114.0 ta 050110s2004 nyu o 000 0 eng d 1560255455 (OCoLC)ocm56826342 OCO OCO spa spa lccopycat n-us--- PN 1993.5 B622g 2004 791.43 22 Biskind, Peter. Gods and monsters : thirty years of writing on film and culture from one of America's most incisive writers / Peter Biskind. New York : Nation Books, 2004. xx, 362 p. ; 23 cm. Peter Biskind authored two of the most talked about and read books of the last decade—Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-'n'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood and its bestselling sequel Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. Gods and Monsters chronicles the cause and courses of Hollywood over the last three decades—the super freaks, lowlifes, charlatans and occasional geniuses who have left their bite mark on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career. The ghosts of McCarthyism and the blacklist haunt Gods and Monsters as do the casualties of the counterculture and the New Hollywood—the story of Sue Menges, the '70s "super-agent" whose career went mysteriously south, is extraordinarily poignant, as is the example of Terence Malick, whose light shone so brightly in the same period but then disappeared until 1997's The Thin Red Line. But at the heart of the book are the likes of Warren Beatty, Oliver Stone, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford and Quentin Tarantino and uber-producers Don Simpson and Harvey Weinstein and their excess lifestyles, all of whom Biskind portrays in great Dickensian detail, charting how they have had a simultaneously strangulating and liberating effect on the industry. Motion pictures United States. Motion picture industry United States. Motion pictures Reviews. Culture in motion pictures. Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0602/2005295250.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0831/2005295250-d.html 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB APT 2019-05-16 0 PN 1993.5 B622g 2004 00000132536 2019-05-16 00:00:00 1 2019-05-16 BK