City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940as

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Price
$41.94
Publisher
University of California Press
Publish Date
Pages
495
Dimensions
6.06 X 9.4 X 1.23 inches | 1.56 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780520209497

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About the Author

Otto Friedrich (1929-1995) was a journalist and cultural historian. At one time editor of the New York Daily News and an essayist for Time magazine, he was the author of nine books, including Before the Deluge: Portrait of Berlin in the 1920s.

Reviews

""City of Nets offers a distinctly Brechtian vision of Hollywood. . . . By mixing enjoyable gossip about the stars' personal lives and behind-the-scenes maneuverings with a shrewd look at the film world's often unsavory industrial underpinnings, Friedrich gives us a much clearer understanding of Hollywood's reciprocal relationship with American reality."--Wendy Smith, "Village Voice