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Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance and the rise of independent film by Peter Biskind
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
The explosive new book from the author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers inspired by the directors of the 1970s began to flower outside the studio system. In the following decade, the independent movement bloomed. Steven Soderbergh, Quentin Tarantino, and dozens ...Show more
Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance and the rise of the independent film by Peter Biskind
$26.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV
In the late 1980s a generation of filmmakers began to flower outside the Hollywood studio system and in the following decade, the independent film movement bloomed. Dozens of lesser-known filmmakers such as Steven Soderbergh and Quentin Tarantino began walking away with coveted prizes at Cannes and even ...Show more
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind
$21.95 AUD
Category: Music
One of the most exhilarating periods in film history began with Dennis Hopper's groundbreaking "Easy Rider" in 1969 and ended with Scorsese's masterpiece "Raging Bull" in 1980, with Beverly Hills shrouded under a blanket of cocaine: at least, that's how it seemed. Based on interviews with all the Hol ...Show more
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Larry Bond; Peter Biskind
$24.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV
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
Gods and Monsters : Thirty years of writing on film and culture by Peter Biskind
$26.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Classic book on thirty years of writing on film and culture, by the bestselling author of Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures Here is Hollywood over the last three decades: the superfreaks, lowlifes, charlatans and the occasional geniuses who have left their bite marks on American cu ...Show more
My Lunches with Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles by Peter Biskind
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film & TV
Based on long-lost recordings, a set of riveting and revealing conversations with America's great cultural provocateurThere have long been rumors of a lost cache of tapes containing private conversations between Orson Welles and his friend the director Henry Jaglom, recorded over regular lunches in the ...Show more
Star: The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty by Peter Biskind
$22.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and Down and Dirty Pictures, writes the most intimate, revealing, and balanced biography ever of Hollywood legend Warren Beatty. Famously a playboy, Beatty has also bee ...Show more
The Sky Is Falling - How Vampires, Zombies, Androids and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism by Peter Biskind
$39.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Film & TV
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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