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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Larry Bond; Peter Biskind
Category: Performing Arts
Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Lucas, Hooper, Altman, Spielberg - they were the generation who re-wrote the Hollywood script for the 1970s through the remarkable films they made- Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, The Godfather, The Last Picture Show, Taxi Driver, films which still stand as modern classics. ...Show more
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Category: Performing Arts
AcknowledgmentsHollywood is a town of fabulators. The people who dwell there create fictions for a living, fictions that refuse tidily to confine themselves to the screen, but spill over into the daily lives of the men and women who regard themselves as stars in the movies of their own lives. Although t ...Show more
Pandora's Box - The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television by Peter Biskind
Category: Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls chronicles the heady rise and fall of television The revolution has been televised. From The Sopranos to Stranger Things, the shows we watch - and the ways we watch them - have been transformed over the past fifty years. Out of the bland wasteland of ...Show more
The Sky Is Falling - How Vampires, Zombies, Androids and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism by Peter Biskind
Category: Performing Arts
Are Batman and 24's Jack Bauer heroic loners defending our way of life - or right-wing vigilantes attacking it? Is Avatarjust a National Geographic version of Star Wars or a passionate assault on capitalism? And what about Game of Thrones- sword and sorcery fantasy, or lesson in mainstream politics? In ...Show more
The Sky is Falling!: How Vampires, Zombies, Androids and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism by Peter Biskind
Category: Performing Arts
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) "A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played in the rise of Amer ...Show more
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