One of
The Hollywood Reporter
’s 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time
“
Pictures at a Revolution
is probably one of the best books I've ever read in my life.” —
Quentin Tarantino
The New York Times
bestseller that follows the making of five films at a pivotal time in Hollywood history
In the mid-1960s, westerns, war movies, and blockbuster musicals like
Mary Poppins
swept the box office. The Hollywood studio system was astonishingly lucrative for the few who dominated the business. That is, until the tastes of American moviegoers radically- and unexpectedly-changed. By the Oscar ceremonies of 1968, a cultural revolution had hit Hollywood with the force of a tsunami, and films like
Bonnie and Clyde, The Graduate, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night
, and box-office bomb
Doctor Doolittle
signaled a change in Hollywood-and America. And as an entire industry changed and struggled, careers were suddenly made and ruined, studios grew and crumbled, and the landscape of filmmaking was altered beyond all recognition.