'Essential . . . thrilling . . . invaluable.' - Irish Times'Absorbing . . . rippling with fun and atmosphere.' - Sight & Sound 'Hollywood's ultimate oral history.' - New Yorker
From the archives of the American Film Institute comes a unique picture of what it was like to work in Hollywood from its beginnings to its present day. Hollywood: The Oral History, lets a reader 'listen in' on candid remarks from the biggest names in front of the camera - Bette Davis, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, Harold Lloyd - the biggest behind it - Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Jordan Peele, as well as the musicians, writers, sound men, editors, make-up artists, and even script timers, messengers, and publicists who shaped what was heard and seen on screen.
Legendary film scholar Jeanine Basinger and New York Times bestselling author Sam Wasson have undertaken the monumental task of weaving these thousands of hours of talk into a conversation that is lively, funny, insightful, historically accurate and authentically honest in its portrait of workaday Hollywood.
By:
Sam Wasson, Jeanine Basinger Imprint: Blake Publications Country of Publication: United Kingdom Edition: Main Dimensions:
Height: 232mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 45mm
Weight: 990g ISBN:9780571366958 ISBN 10: 0571366953 Pages: 768 Publication Date:23 April 2024 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Sam Wasson is the New York Times Bestselling author of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood; Fifth Avenue, 5A.M.: Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman; and Fosse: The Biography