The Best American movie writing, 2001
By: edited by John Landis ; Jason Shinder, series editor
Contributors: Snider, Jason
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Motion picture industry in literature; Motion pictures; Appreciation; Evaluation; Reviews
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Jason Shinder; title: Introduction  -- John Landis; title: High wire artist  -- Molly Haskell; title: Barbara Payton: a memoir  -- Robert Polito; title: Cody and the three stooges  -- Jack Kerouac; title: Hats off to Charles Gemora, Hollywood's greatest ape  -- Tom Weaver; title: Excerpt from All about All About Eve, the complete behind the scenes story of the bitchiest film ever made  -- Sam Staggs; title: The risky territory of American psycho  -- Mary Harron; title: How the MPAA rates independent films  -- Doug Atchison; title: Gone with the wind and Hollywood racial politics  -- Leonard J. Leff; title: No, but I saw the movie  -- Russell Banks; title: The twelve-year-old girl  -- John Irving; title: Lost among the pinafores  -- David Leavitt; title: The great escape--or the first time I didn't pay for it  -- Daryl G. Nickens; title: New introduction & last chapter Inside out: a memoir of the blacklist  -- Walter Bernstein; title: Pov  -- Lawrence Kasdan; title: Kubrick  -- Michael Herr; title: 2001: a film  -- Stanley Kubrick; title: Whoa, trigger! Auteur alert!  -- Rick Lyman; title: Cheese whiz: Sam Raimi, the auteur of the evil dead  -- Rebecca Mead; title: Ceremony and revolt: burn!  -- Natalie Zemon Davis; title: People who need people  -- David Geffner; title: An interlude  -- Stuart Klawans; title: When the Nazis became nudniks  -- J. Hoberman; title: Film or digital? Don't fight, coexist  -- John Bailey; title: Stop-motion jimjams: Ray Harryhausen  -- Michael Atkinson; title: Is this the end of Rico?  -- David Remnick; title: Female rampant  -- Maria DiBattista; title: Found horizon -- Ian Buruma.