- Peter Biskind
Peter Biskind is a journalist, former executive editor of "Premiere" magazine, [http://www.bloomsbury.com/authors/microsite.asp?id=113§ion=1 Bloomsbury.com - Bloomsbury Author Information ] ] and the author of numerous books depicting life in
Hollywood , including "Seeing is Believing ", "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls ", "Down and Dirty Pictures ", and "Gods and Monsters". He has also written for "Rolling Stone ", "The New York Times " and "The Washington Post ", and is a contributing editor at "Vanity Fair (magazine) ".He has served as the editor-in-chief of "
American Film ". [http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/bios/bio_biskind]elected bibliography
;Books
*—. (1983). Seeing is believing: how Hollywood taught us to stop worrying and love the fifties. New York: Pantheon Books.
*—. (1990). The Godfather companion: everything you ever wanted to know about all three Godfather films. New York, NY: HarperPerennial.
*—. (1998). Easy riders, raging bulls: how the sex-drugs-and-rock-'n'-roll generation saved Hollywood. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
*—. (2004). Down and dirty pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the rise of independent film. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*—. (2004). Gods and monsters: thirty years of writing on film and culture from one of America's most incisive writers. New York: Nation Books.;Essays
*Peter Biskind's "Foreword" and his essay "Inside Indiewood" (April 3, 2000) are included in: Bromley, C. (2000). Cinema nation: the best writing on film from the Nation, 1913-2000. New York: Thunder Mouth Press/Nation Books.
*—. " [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2005/12/woodyallen200512 Reconstructing Woody] , "Vanity Fair", December 2005.
*—. " [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2006/03/reds200603 Thunder on the Left: The Making of "Reds"] ", "Vanity Fair", March 2006.
*—. " [http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/03/warmovies0803 The Vietnam Oscars] ", "Vanity Fair", March 2008.References
External links
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*Charlie Rose Show: [http://www.charlierose.com/shows/1998/06/23/2/a-discussion-about-hollywood-films-in-the-1970s A panel discussion about Hollywood movies of the 1970s and their impact on American culture.] Dated 1998-06-23. Guests include: Peter Biskind, filmmakerJames Toback , editor of "Variety" magazinePeter Bart andDaphne Merkin , film critic for "The New Yorker".
*Charlie Rose Show: [http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2004/05/13/2/a-conversation-about-independent-films-with-peter-biskind A conversation about the explosion of independent film in the 1990's with Peter Biskind.] Dated 2004-05-13.
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