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Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 8 Sep 2024 05:04:58
Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys

Peter Stanfield, "Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys"
English | ISBN: 1789148626 | 2024 | 344 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

The story of how the movies assumed a gritty facade in the name of authenticity, with working actors transforming into artists, poets, painters, troubadours, and filmmakers—both on- and off-screen.

This is the tale of how Hollywood, inspired by the success of Easy Rider, sold a cycle of films as the new dirty real. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Monte Hellman, Jack Nicholson, Kris Kristofferson, and Sam Peckinpah, among others, parlayed a nostalgia for the gutter and donned bohemian personae, pulling on soiled shirts and scuffed boots to better counter the glamour and phoniness of Tinseltown. The result was a generation of movies, including The Hired Hand, Five Easy Pieces, Two-Lane Blacktop, The Last Picture Show, and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
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