Easy Riders, Raging Bulls by Peter Biskind (1998)
Since it's inception, the movie business has captured the imagination of the masses all over the world. Hollywood, at least it's in heyday, was the epitome of glamour itself. A place where all you had to have was a dollar and a dream and you too could one day find yourself under the bright lights. However, by the late 1960s, Hollywood's glory days seemed to be hanging by a thread and a new wave of revolutionary filmmakers were coming forth, influenced by the counter-culture of the day and determined to destroy the studio system as they knew it. Peter Biskind's book focuses specifically on this time period and the characters around the movement we now know as 'New Hollywood'. Beginning with 'Bonnie & Clyde' (1967), this book takes us on a wild and wonderful journey through a series of films, all the way up to Michael Cimino's 'Heaven's Gate' (1980) - which widely signaled the end of this golden period of filmmaking. As Robert Altman p...