DIRTY REAL Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys

STANFIELD Peter

ISBN 10: 1789148626 / ISBN 13: 9781789148626

Published by Reaktion Books, 2024. 9781789148626, 2024

About this Item

1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered brown cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 288, illus with b&w photos in text (no inscriptions).

Seller Inventory # 185633

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DIRTY REAL Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys
• Publisher: Reaktion Books, 2024. 9781789148626
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789148626
• ISBN 13: 9781789148626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cinema

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Synopsis

'So full of information, so culturally astute and so beautifully written.' - Mike Scott, The Waterboys

This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty real. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson and Sam Peckinpah, among others, drew on a nostalgia for the gutter and donned bohemian personae, pulling on soiled shirts and scuffed boots, to better counter the glamour and phoniness of Tinseltown. With great care for the historical record and displaying a refined critical acuity, Peter Stanfield captures that pivotal moment when Hollywood tried to sell a begrimed vision of itself to the world.

About the Author

Peter Stanfield is Emeritus Professor of Film at the University of Kent. His publications include A Band with Built-In Hate: The Who from Pop Art to Punk and Pin-Ups 1972: Third Generation Rock ‘n’ Roll, both published by Reaktion.