The Studio (Life library of photography)
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The Studio (Life library of photography) by Timelife Books
In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like Dr. Dolittle, Planet of the Apes, and The Boston Strangler. The result is a work of reportage that, thirty years later, may still be our most minutely observed and therefore most uproariously funny portrait of the motion picture business. Whether he is recounting a showdown between Fox's studio head and two suave shark-like agents, watching a producer's girlfriend steal a silver plate from a restaurant, or shielding his eyes against the glare of a Hollywood premiere where the guests include a chimp in a white tie and tails, Dunne captures his subject in all its showmanship, savvy, vulgarity, and hype. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West has anyone done Hollywood better. Reads as racily as a novel.(Dunne) has a novelist's ear for speech and eye for revealing detail.Anyone who has tiptoed along those corridors of power is bound to say that Dunne's impressionism rings true.--Los Angeles Times| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780809444168 |
| ISBN 10 | 080944416X |
| Title | The Studio (Life library of photography) |
| Author | Timelife Books |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Time-Life Books |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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