Gods and Monsters: Thirty Years of Writing on Film and Culture From One of America's Most Incisive Writers
Author: Peter Biskind
Date: 2004-11-08 05:00:00+00:00
Keywords: History
Description: Peter Biskind authored two of the most talked about and read books of the last decade—Easy Riders, Raging How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock-'n'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood and its bestselling sequel Down and Dirty Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. Gods and Monsters chronicles the cause and courses of Hollywood over the last three decades—the super freaks, lowlifes, charlatans and occasional geniuses who have left their bite mark on American culture, as refracted through the trajectory of Peter Biskind's career. The ghosts of McCarthyism and the blacklist haunt Gods and Monsters
Publisher: Nation Books

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Document Outline

- Contents

- Introduction

- Between the Frames

- The Politics of Power in On the Waterfront

- War of the Worlds

- Tightass and Cocksucker: Sexual Politics in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

- Pat Garrett and Billey the Kid

- Machismo and Hollywood's Working Class (with Barbara Ehrenreich)

- Blue Collar Blues: Proletarian Cinema from Hollywood

- Holocaust Fever

- "Come Back to the Mill, Nick Honey": The Deer Hunter Misses the Target

- A Balance of Error?: PBS's Vietnam: Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy

- American Film Criticism (Postwar)

- The Last Crusade

- Reports

- The Weather Underground, Take One (with Marc N. Weiss)

- In Latin America They Shoot Filmmakers

- Promised Land: On Sundance

- Auteurs

- Any Which Way He Can
- Chameleon Man
- Slouching Toward Hollywood

- The Making of "Blatherlands": An Imaginary Conversation between Sissy Spacek and Terrence Malick (with Michael Silverman)

- The Runaway Genius

- Deep Focus

- Punchin' Judy
- The Man Who Minted Style
- When Sue Was Queen
- Good Night, Dark Prince

Table of Contents

- Contents

- Introduction

- Between the Frames

- The Politics of Power in On the Waterfront

- War of the Worlds

- Tightass and Cocksucker: Sexual Politics in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

- Pat Garrett and Billey the Kid

- Machismo and Hollywood's Working Class (with Barbara Ehrenreich)

- Blue Collar Blues: Proletarian Cinema from Hollywood

- Holocaust Fever

- "Come Back to the Mill, Nick Honey": The Deer Hunter Misses the Target

- A Balance of Error?: PBS's Vietnam: Waist-Deep in the Big Muddy

- American Film Criticism (Postwar)

- The Last Crusade

- Reports

- The Weather Underground, Take One (with Marc N. Weiss)

- In Latin America They Shoot Filmmakers

- Promised Land: On Sundance

- Auteurs

- Any Which Way He Can
- Chameleon Man
- Slouching Toward Hollywood

- The Making of "Blatherlands": An Imaginary Conversation between Sissy Spacek and Terrence Malick (with Michael Silverman)

- The Runaway Genius

- Deep Focus

- Punchin' Judy
- The Man Who Minted Style
- When Sue Was Queen
- Good Night, Dark Prince