| Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood Contributor(s): McMurtry, Larry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743216245 ISBN-13: 9780743216241 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: McMurtry has been to Hollywood and back--here he takes a funny and penetrating look at the movie industry and uncovers the truth about the moguls, fads, flops and box-office busters. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 8704667 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.38" W x 7.98" (0.52 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A noted screenwriter himself, Pulitzer Prize-winner Larry McMurtry knows Hollywood--in Film Flam, he takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits. With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels--Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, and Hud--McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays, he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often hilarious path through the excesses of film reviewing, and takes on some of the worst trends in the industry: the decline of the Western, the disappearance of love in the movies, and the quality of the stars themselves. From his recollections of the day Hollywood entered McMurtry's own life as he ate meat loaf in Fort Worth to the pleasures he found in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Film Flam is one of the best books ever written about Hollywood. |
Contributor Bio(s): McMurtry, Larry: - Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lives in Archer City, Texas. |