Two Cheers for Hollywood

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Two Cheers for Hollywood is written by Joseph McBride and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1946208191 (ISBN 10) and 9781946208194 (ISBN 13).

Two Cheers for Hollywood is a rich, insightful, often amusing chronicle of McBride's decades of covering the American film industry and observing its decline from the challenging films of the 1960s to the juvenilia of today. This provocative collection brings together sixty-four pieces with commentaries on them, including a new monograph on the Coen Bros. and several other essays written for this book. Two Cheers for Hollywood demonstrates why McBride has helped set the standard for the field of film scholarship. As the late novelist Thomas Flanagan wrote in The New York Review of Books, McBride "deploys his wide knowledge of American social and film history with tact, wit, and imagination." McBride is a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He spent several years as a film critic, reporter, and columnist for Daily Variety in Hollywood. His screenwriting credits include Rock 'n' Roll High School and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV.