Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business

Harrington, Curtis

ISBN 10: 1937112071 / ISBN 13: 9781937112073

Published by Chicago: Drag City, Inc., 2013

About this Item

Small octavo paperback. B&W photographs. Condition: minor wear to covers; diagonal crease to lower corner of front cover and similar creasing to first two pages; else very good. Pages: xiii, 272.

Seller Inventory # 8072MP

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business
• Publisher: Chicago: Drag City, Inc.
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1937112071
• ISBN 13: 9781937112073
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

About this title

Synopsis

Nice Guys Don't Work in Hollywood is a fast-paced vew of Harrington's journey through the kaleidoscope of the movie business, acting alternatively as personal memoir and cultural history from a veteran of thee entertainment business. In addition, Harrington was living as a gay man in Hollywood and the book gives a rare peak into the hidden world of what was then an elite subculture. Starting in 1940s avant-garde heyday, harrington made several deeply intuitive and evocative films. Against all odds, he then became a Hollywood insider.

About the Author

Curtis Harrington was a film and television director whose work included experimental films, horror films, and episodic television. He was a close associate of groundbreaking cult film pioneer Kenneth Anger and is considered one of the forerunners of New Queer Cinema.