26 must-read history books like Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger

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Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine …

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1. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

By: Peter Biskind

4.12

Format: None pages,

This down-and-dirty romp through Hollywood in the 1970s introduces the young filmmakers--Coppola, S… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
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2. The Kid Stays in the Picture

By: Robert Evans

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with … read more

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  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

3. Adventures in the Screen Trade

By: William Goldman

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-wi… read more

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

By: Mark Harris

4.10

Format: None pages,

Explores the epic human drama behind the making of the five movies nominated for Best Picture in 19… read more

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5. The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco

By: Julie Salamon

4.06

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"A definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking" ( Newsweek ), now the basis for the … read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick

6. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

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7. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

8. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

9. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
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  • audiobook
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

10. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

11. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

12. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood by David Mamet

13. Everywhere an Oink Oink: An Embittered, Dyspeptic, and Accurate Report of Forty Years in Hollywood

By: David Mamet

3.24

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director David Mamet shares scandalous and laugh-out-lo… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette

14. It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

By: Felix Gillette

4.03

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television--by two veteran media repo… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy

16. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

By: Shawn Levy

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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18. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television by Peter Biskind

19. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television

By: Peter Biskind

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of 20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio (Turner Classic Movies) by Scott Eyman

20. 20th Century-Fox: Darryl F. Zanuck and the Creation of the Modern Film Studio (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Scott Eyman

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Scott Eyman, this is the story one of the most influential s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • audiobook
Cover of The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White

21. The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

By: Edward White

3.90

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon—what define… read more

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  • art
  • history
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  • audiobook
Cover of Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession by Laurence Leamer

22. Hitchcock's Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director's Dark Obsession

By: Laurence Leamer

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author of Capote’s Women Laurence Leamer shares an engrossing account of the enigmatic … read more

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  • history
  • biography
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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius by Carrie Courogen

23. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius

By: Carrie Courogen

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Hollywood: The Oral History

By: Jeanine Basinger

4.04

Format: 768 pages, Paperback

The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more

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  • art
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • film
  • pop culture
  • oral history
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece by Michael  Benson

25. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

By: Michael Benson

4.40

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the film’s release, this is the definitive story of the mak… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"If you can describe it, I can film it."

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"In a 1972 story titled “The Big Space Fuck,"

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"What we want is a smashing theme of mythic grandeur."

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

"As for HAL singing “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two),"

-Michael Benson, Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece

Cover of Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided by Scott Eyman

26. Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided

By: Scott Eyman

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

The “shocking” (The Wall Street Journal), must-read story of Charlie Chaplin’s years of exile from … read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair by William J. Mann

27. Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood's Greatest Love Affair

By: William J. Mann

3.89

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
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  • audiobook
Cover of Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker

28. Kubrick: An Odyssey

By: Robert P. Kolker

4.26

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey , The Shining , and A Clockwork Or… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton

29. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision

By: Charles Elton

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
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  • audiobook
Cover of A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More by Paul Hirsch

30. A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits—Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More

By: Paul Hirsch

4.21

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

"For its sheer excellence, diversity, and cultural impact, Paul Hirsch's filmography speaks for its… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards by John Dorney

31. Best Pick: A Journey through Film History and the Academy Awards

By: John Dorney

3.98

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating history of motion pictures through the lens of the Academy Awards, the Best Picture w… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • film

27 must-read audiobook books like Hollywood: The Oral History by Jeanine Basinger

Transform Your Habits

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco

Julie Salamon

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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22 Top audiobook books like The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon

Transform Your Habits

The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans

3.95

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco

Julie Salamon

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

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