Well, not literally. But this Wednesday we’ll be reading Edward
Jay Epstein’s The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood.
I’ve just finished reading it - I’ll have plenty more to say after
book club discussion, I’m sure, but I’ll say now, it’s a fascinating,
engaging read, a tapestry of the major changes involved with the “New
Hollywood” and the place of today’s film industry in the media
company landscape.
I’d originally suggested Robert Sklar’s Movie-Made
America as an optional additional book, a kind of cultural
history counterpart to Epstein’s industrial history. Given the length
of (the admittedly easy-to-read) Big Picture, that’s probably not
realistic, but I expect to have it read by Wed. in any case.
Again, this month’s meeting is at Central/MIT Toscanini’s at 6PM.
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