Gossip, scandal and forgotten stars: 10 of the best books about film
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls Peter Biskind A stone-cold classic from the moment it arrived in 1998. Biskind, a former editor of Premiere magazine, produced a detailed, insightful and immensely readable account of the (until then) relatively neglected achievements of the 70s “movie brats” and their outpouring of masterworks. Both scholarly and popular, Biskind’s book turned a whole new generation on to the Hollywood new wave. Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Edited by Alison Castle Kubrick famously tried and failed to get a biopic of Napoleon off the ground in the late 60s and early 70s; Jack N...
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