Review: Hollywood: The Oral History , by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson
2023; University of California Press; Volume: 100; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.121
ISSN2327-1485
Autores Tópico(s)Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
ResumoBook Review| August 01 2023 Review: Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson. Hollywood: The Oral History. Harper, 2022. 768 pp. Hardcover $37.50. Rosanne Welch Rosanne Welch ROSANNE WELCH is executive director of the MFA program in TV and screenwriting at Stephens College. Her television credits include Beverly Hills 90210, Picket Fences, Nightline, and Touched by an Angel. Her publications include When Women Wrote Hollywood (2018), named runner-up for the Susan Koppelman Award for the best edited book in feminist studies; and Women in American History (2017), which the American Library Association named as an Outstanding Reference Source and included on its list of Best Historical Materials. Her latest book is American Women’s History on Film (ABC Clio 2023), and her 2016 TEDxCPP talk “The Importance of Having a Female Voice in the Room” is available on YouTube. rosanne.welch@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar rosanne.welch@gmail.com California History (2023) 100 (3): 121–122. https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.121 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Rosanne Welch; Review: Hollywood: The Oral History, by Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson. California History 1 August 2023; 100 (3): 121–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/ch.2023.100.3.121 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentCalifornia History Search When you think of a coffee-table book about Hollywood, you probably think of glossy pictures of movie stars posing in gorgeous gowns and suits and ties, as in Richard Lawton’s A World of Movies (1974). Yet movies are a business built on words as well as pictures, so it makes sense that someone would finally create a coffee-table word book, and that is Hollywood: The Oral History. Coming from two such esteemed and meticulous film historians as Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson, one expects perfection. Basinger previously published broad histories The Star Machine (2008) and A Woman’s View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930–1960 (2013), while Wasson concentrated on microhistories of films such as The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood (2020) and Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman (2021). Editing and collating material from the... You do not currently have access to this content.
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