Hollywood: The Oral History
Nov 2022 · Faber & Faber
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Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.
What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it - from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and beyond, including directors, writers, producers, editors, designers of sets and costumes.
As such, the authenticity of the text is irrefutable.
The material in the book - gathered over the decades by the American Film Institute - has never been published before, has never been heard before.
It is comprehensive - a monument that will never age nor be surpassed.
What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it - from Harold Lloyd to Katharine Hepburn to Warren Beatty to Jane Fonda and beyond, including directors, writers, producers, editors, designers of sets and costumes.
As such, the authenticity of the text is irrefutable.
The material in the book - gathered over the decades by the American Film Institute - has never been published before, has never been heard before.
It is comprehensive - a monument that will never age nor be surpassed.
Hollywood: The Oral History covers the history of Hollywood from the Silent era up to the 21st century.
What makes this book unique from any other survey of Hollywood's history is that it is the history of an art form through the words of those people who created it - from Harold Lloyd to Katha...
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Miklós Horváth
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April 9, 2026
An amazing collage of interviews from silent filmmakers all the way to Avatar... I can see how giddy Jeanine Basinger and Sam Wasson were when they saw all those records. Kudos to the AFI for previously creating those. The style of the text is similar when you are watching a doc with talking heads. Lovely.
About the author
Sam Wasson is the New York Times Best-selling author of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood; Fifth Avenue, 5A.M.: Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman; and
Fosse: The Biography
Sam Wasson is the New York Times Best-selling author of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood; Fifth Avenue, 5A.M.: Breakfast at Tiffany's and the Dawn of the Modern Woman; and
Fosse: The Biography
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