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Picture (Paperback)

By: Lillian Ross (Author)

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"Much better than most novels."

"It is the best book on Hollywood ever published."

"A terrifying picture of how a great film ("The Red Badge of Courage") directed by one of the best living directors, based on an American classic, can be slashed into incoherence through the timidities and the illiteracy of studio heads."

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The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the classic account of Hollywood's inner workings--voted one of the century's top 100 journalistic works and called by Hemingway "much better than most novels."
In the spring of 1950, when New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross heard that John Huston was planning to make a film of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, she decided she would follow the movie's progress "in order to learn whatever I might learn about the American motion-picture industry." What resulted was Picture, which Newsweek has called "the best book on Hollywood ever published." Picture received raves from the worlds of film and literature in equal measure for its unforgettable portrait of the language, the ways, and the preoccupations of Hollywood: Charlie Chaplin called Picture "brilliant and sagacious" and legendary editor William Shawn termed it "the definitive book on the Hollywood community." Little wonder, then, that when the Top 100 Works of U.S. Journalism of the Twentieth Century were chosen by the New York University Department of Journalism and a distinguished panel that included David Brinkley, Pete Hamill, Jeff Greenfield, Mary McGrory, and Morley Safer, Picture had an honored place on that list.

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This is the complete series of essays from "The New Yorker", first published in book form in 1952, of Lillian Ross's account of the making of John Huston's film "The Red Badge of Courage". It became, and remains, one of the best literary depictions of Hollywood. "Picture" received tremendous praise not only for the sheer quality of the writing, but also for its technical innovation--the presentation of reporting as a novel.

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