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. Now he can legitimately describe himself - as he does in the autobiographical introduction to this book - as a 'recovering celebrity journalist'. 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.
- ISBN10 0747580944
- ISBN13 9780747580942
- Publish Date 4 April 2005 (first published 9 November 2004)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/Trade/