Overview of West of Eden Book

A selective, sly history of studioera Hollywood... This is undoubtedly one of the best books ever written about the movies. The Number One Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWest of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills.The book takes us from the discovery of oil in the Twenties with the story of the tycoon Edward Doheny (There Will Be Blood) and traces the growth of corruption through the syndicates, the mob, and the movie studios from the beginnings of the film industry to the end, with News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch (who bought the Stein mansion in 1985).West of Eden is about money, power, fame and terrible secrets: the doomed Hollywood of the late Fifties, early Sixties the rotten heart of paradise . Like her last book, the best-selling Edie, this is an oral history told through brilliantly edited interviews. As this is Hollywood, it s a book full of sex, drugs and celebrity glamour; but because it s built from the firsthand accounts of people who were actually there, many of them writers, actors and artists, it s also strangely claustrophobic, seductive, and completely compelling.

• Book Type :

Cinema & Broadcast

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

022410246X

• West of Eden Published On :

4 Feb 2016

• Resource:

Arts, Film & Photography, Cinema & Broadcast Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

Disclaimer:

• West of Eden Book is not for reading online or for free download in PDF or eBook format.
• Table of Contents,Index,Syllabus,summary and image of West of Eden book may be of a different edition or of the same title.
• Price can change due to reprinting, price change by publisher or sourcing cost change for imported books.