The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era
7 best books like The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era (Thomas Schatz): Shooting to Kill, Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade, Spike, Mike, Slackers, & Dykes: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, You'll Never Eat Lunch in this Town Again, How to Take Charge of Your Life: The User’s Guide to NLP, City
| Author | Christine Vachon |
| ISBN | 0380798549 |
Complete with behind-the-scenes diary entries from the set of Vachon's best-known fillms, Shooting to Kill offers all the satisfaction of an intimate memoir from the frontlines of independent filmmakins, from one of its most successful agent provocateurs -- and survivors. Hailed by the New York...
| Author | William Goldman |
| ISBN | 0747553173 |
Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as...
| Author | John Pierson |
| ISBN | 0786882220 |
It's not that this is a bad book, just that it is irrelevant unless you are in the business, the movie business,or heavily into movie trivia. It is all about how and when Indie films have been financed, where they were shown, what film festivals they've been in, and the like. It throws around the names of...
| Author | Peter Biskind |
| ISBN | 0684857081 |
However much is true, however much really happened that way, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How The Sex 'N' Drugs 'N' Rock 'N' Generation Saved Hollywood by Peter Biskind remains one of my favorite non-fiction reads. For those who hear "film history" and think Titanic, in 1967, the major American film studios...
| Author | Julia Phillips |
| ISBN | 0571216234 |
Julia Phillips became a Hollywood player in the freewheeling 1970s, the first woman to win the Best Picture Oscar as co-producer of The Sting. She went on to work with two of the hottest young directorial talents of the era: Martin Scorsese (Taxi Driver) and Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the...
How to Take Charge of Your Life: The User’s Guide to NLP
| Author | Richard Bandler |
| ISBN | 0007555938 |
Richard Bandler, co-creator of NLP and the man who taught and trained Paul McKenna, joins forces with Alessio Roberti and Owen Fitzpatrick once again to give you the tools to change your life.
Richard Bandler – the world-renowned co-creator of NLP who has helped millions around the...
| Author | Alessandro Baricco |
| ISBN | 0375725482 |
The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize....
