Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood

Hollywood's Last Golden Age: Politics, Society, and the Seventies Film in America

Author: Mark Harris

Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 1967-Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, The Graduate, In the Heat of the Night, Doctor Doolittle, and Bonnie and Clyde-and through them, the larger story of the cultural revolution that transformed Hollywood, and America, forever…..Read More

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