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A classic look at Hollywood and the American film industry by The New Yorker's Lillian Ross, and named one of the Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century.Lillian Ross worked at The New Yorker for more than half a century, and might be described not only as an outstanding practitioner of modern long-form journalism but also as one of its inventors. Picture, originally published in 1952, is her most celebrated piece of reportage, a closely observed and completely absorbing story of how studio politics and misguided commercialism turn a promising movie into an all-around disaster. The charismatic and hard-bitten director and ac…
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- ISBN: 978-1-68137-316-4
- EAN: 9781681373164
- Produktnummer: 28206070
- Verlag: New York Review Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 810 KB
Über den Autor
Lillian Ross (1918-2017), born Lillian Rosovsky, grew up in Syracuse and Brooklyn, New York. In 1945, she joined The New Yorker and was a staff writer there for seven decades. She was the author of eleven books, including Portrait of Hemingway, Vertical and Horizontal, Reporting,The Player, Here But Not Here, and Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism. She spent much of her life with the journalist and editor William Shawn. Her work is considered to be a major influence in the field of literary journalism. Angelica Hustonis an actress and director. Born in Santa Monica, California, she is the daughter of John Huston and the ballerina Enrica Soma. Huston began acting in the late 1960s, taking small roles in her father's films, and in 1985 won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in Prizzi's Honor. She went on to have roles in numerous films, including The Addams Family, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, and The Royal Tenenbaums. Huston's directorial debut was Bastard Out of Carolina in 1996, followed by Agnes Browne and Riding the Bus with My Sister.
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