Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of 21 essays on movies, movie-making and hollywood contains the best of McMurtry's magazine work from American Film Magazine. In "Film Flam, " McMurtry takes a funny, original, and penetrating look at the movie industry and gives us the truth about the moguls, fads, flops, and box-office hits. With successful movies and television miniseries made from several of his novels -- "Terms of Endearment, The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove, " and "Hud" -- McMurtry writes with an outsider's irony of the industry and an insider's experience. In these essays he illuminates the plight of the screenwriter, cuts a clean, often hilarious path through the excesses of film reviewing, and takes on some of the worst trends in the industry: the decline of the Western, the disappearance of love in the movies, and the quality of the stars themselves. Item #29036
ISBN: 0671643088
Price: $125.00