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Sto caricando le informazioni... Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears (edizione 2023)di Michael Schulman (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Thanks to this book, I know about the opening act of the 1989 Academy Awards, and thanks to YouTube I've now seen part of it, and know what it's like to have a vicariously embarrassing fever dream. Which, as Michael Schulman shows in this gossipy yet well-researched book, is par for the course with the Oscars: making people act nuts for 95 years and counting. ( ) It took me a little while to get into this one. The first couple of chapters, about the early years of the Academy of Motion Pictures, was a little slow-going for me. There was a lot about the politics of the Academy in the late 1920s through the 1930s. After those chapters, though, the book became increasingly hard to put down. I'd heard about the Hollywood Blacklist, but never really knew what happened till I read this book. Each chapter looks at the state of the industry at the time, and gives brief sketches of the making of particular movies, and brief biographical portraits of the people involved in the Oscar races of that year. This is a great companion to "Pictures at a Revolution," which took a deep dive into the making of the five nominees for Best Picture in 1967. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML: The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes drama. America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes have chased the elusive Oscar. What began as an industry banquet in 1929 has now exploded into a hallowed ceremony, complete with red carpets, envelopes, and little gold men. But don't be fooled by the pomp: the Oscars, more than anything, are a battlefield, where the history of Hollywoodâ??and of America itselfâ??unfolds in dramas large and small. The road to the Oscars may be golden, but it's paved in blood, sweat, and broken hearts. In Oscar Wars, Michael Schulman chronicles the remarkable, sprawling history of the Academy Awards and the personal dramasâ??some iconic, others never-before-revealedâ??that have played out on the stage and off camera. Unlike other books on the subject, each chapter takes a deep dive into a particular year, conflict, or even category that tells a larger story of cultural change, from Louis B. Mayer to Moonlight. Schulman examines how the red carpet runs through contested turf, and the victors aren't always as clear as the names drawn from envelopes. Caught in the crossfire are people: their thwarted ambitions, their artistic epiphanies, their messy collaborations, their dreams fulfilled or dashed. Featuring a star-studded cast of some of the most powerful Hollywood players of today and yesterday, as well as outsiders who stormed the palace gates, this captivating history is a collection of revelatory tales, each representing a turning point for the Academy, for the movies, or for the culture at Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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