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Erich Schwartzel has reported on the film industry for The Wall Street Journal since 2013. Previously, he covered energy and the environment for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where his work won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting. He lives in Los Angeles.
In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Schwartzel demonstrates the extent of our cultural thrall to China. His depiction of the craven characters, American and Chinese, who have enabled this situation represents a significant feat of investigative journalism. His narrative is about not merely the movie business, but the new world order. -Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree and The Noonday Demon In the ongoing ideological struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, popular entertainment has emerged as an unlikely but critical battleground. Epic in scope and meticulously researched, Red Carpet reads like dispatches from the front lines of this war, whose outcome will help to determine our future. Always compelling and often chilling, Erich Schwartzel's invaluable work shows how the power of narrative continues to change the world. -David Henry Hwang, Tony Award winner for M. Butterfly and Pulitzer Prize finalist for Soft Power Erich Schwartzel has told a hugely entertaining and deeply revealing story about China's disturbing aspirations. Red Carpet is juicy and quietly damning, a brilliant anthropology of both Hollywood and Beijing. It's one of the most fun books about global politics I've ever read. -Franklin Foer, author of World Without Mind and How Soccer Explains the World
