Picture
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In the spring of 1950, when New Yorkerstaff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture industry." What resulted was Picture, which Newsweekhas called "the best book on Hollywood ever published." Picture received raves from the worlds of film and literature in equal measure for its unforgettable portrait of the language, the ways, and the preoccupations of Hollywood: Charlie Chaplin called Picture "brilliant and sagacious" and legendary editor William Shawn termed it "the definitive book on the Hollywood community." Little wonder, then, that when the Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century were chosen by the New York University Department of Journalism and a distinguished panel that included David Brinkley, Pete Hamill, Jeff Greenfield, Mary McGrory, and Morley Safer, Picturehad an honored place on that list.
Liked Picture? Here’s where I’d start.
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The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco Shares film, nonfiction, hollywood -
City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s Shares nonfiction, film, hollywood -
Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film that Sank United Artists Shares film, nonfiction, hollywood -
The Parade's Gone By... Shares film, nonfiction, cinema
