Peter Biskind is a cultural critic and film historian. He was formerly editor-in-chief of American Film magazine and executive editor of Premiere magazine. His writing has appeared in scores of national publications, including The New York Times and Rolling Stone, as well as several film journals. He is currently a contributing editor at American Vanity Fair. He has published eight books, including the bestseller Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, and is Executive Director of the FilmColumbia Festival held in the Hudson Valley.
A binge-worthy book
*Economist*
Thoroughly entertaining… Pandora’s Box is essential viewing
*Guardian*
Biskind is the perfect person to chronicle how we got here … The
writers and showrunners are compelling figures, and Biskind’s story
is larded with stories of their triumphs, creative crises, neuroses
and episodes of appalling behaviour
*Financial Times*
Pandora’s Box explains, in punchy, propulsive prose, how we went
from Tony Soprano to Ted Lasso … Biskind is skilled at the quick
character sketch … [and] lays out a sprawling, amoral ecosystem
with the dispassion of an omniscient narrator
*New Yorker*
Peter Biskind's Pandora's Box is not only a richly detailed and
colorful account of how TV has defiantly superseded the cinema in
the last thirty years, but also an important historic document.
Biskind brilliantly maneuvers his way through a panoply of
cinematic and television endeavor with the precision of a surgeon's
scalpel. A gripping and compulsive read
*Brian Cox*
Peter Biskind has always been the most rigorous and amusing
Hollywood historian we have, taking on the great men of the
past--and now with his trademark cheeky intelligence he takes on
the giants of the present age of television-as-cinema. Despite my
having lived much of the book's arc, Biskind offers a fresh
perspective on the new Wild West of home entertainment
*Lena Dunham*
This brisk, blistering overview of how streaming has changed where
we put our eyeballs is classic binge-worthy reading. I had no idea
the people who created culture-altering shows are as entertaining
as the shows themselves, but Peter Biskind did, and you'll never
look at them same way again
*Steven Soderbergh*
Peter Biskind takes on a wild, whirlwind tour of the birth, life,
death, and rebirth of cable and streaming services, introducing us
to the people behind them who turn out to be as ferociously nutty
as the characters they put on the screen
*David Nasaw, author of The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced
Persons from World War to Cold War*
Peter Biskind catalogs real-life misbehavior by the principals
responsible for an array of lauded series with the same unsparing
eye that he detailed the excesses of New Hollywood in Easy Riders,
Raging Bulls
*Entertainment Weekly*
This gossip-filled overview of the past 40 years of television will
keep readers glued to their seats
*Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW*
Biskind is known as much for his outspoken opinions as his
insightful commentary, and Pandora’s Box is Biskind at his most
candid. For readers interested in what goes on behind the scenes in
the world of television, a must-read
*Booklist*
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Who else can explicate the hidden politics of movies and make you
laugh out loud at the same time?
*Barbara Ehrenreich on The Sky is Falling*
Insanely readable
*Slavoj Žižek on The Sky is Falling*
You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same
way again. And you shouldn't
*Steven Soderbergh on The Sky is Falling*
Thoughtful, entertaining and occasionally profound
*Spectator on The Sky is Falling*
Spot on
*Irish Times on The Sky is Falling*
Dishy, teeming, superbly reported...packed with lively inside
anecdotes...[a] juicy and fascinating exposé
*Entertainment Weekly on Down and Dirty Pictures*
Sensationally entertaining
*Los Angeles Times on Down and Dirty Pictures*
Peter Biskind's great, scathing, news-packed history...is one hell
of an elixir-salty with flavorsome gossip, sour with the aftertaste
of misspent careers, intoxicating with one revelation after
another...an A
*Entertainment Weekly on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls*
Biskind's devourable book is that rarity, a Hollywood exposé that
you can read mouth agape, slurping up scandal and titillation so
fast you're in danger of choking-without feeling ashamed of
yourself
*Washington Post Book World on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls*
Biskind is a magician at prying revealing yarns and juicy quotes
out of his subjects. And the resulting scenarios are deliciously
tawdry...moments of real intelligence and grace
*San Francisco Chronicle on Easy Riders, Raging Bulls*
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