In this book, author (and New Yorker staff writer) Lillian Ross follows the progress of John Huston's filming of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage. First published as a serial in the New Yorker, the book covers not only the film's creation but its subsequent fate at the hands of its studio bosses. Along the way, the author provides what the publisher describes as "everything any sane person should want to know about how a big film studio functions." Thus, this work has become the definitive book on the Hollywood community--its language, its manners, its preoccupations, its ideas.
|
