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Joseph McBride has been writing about films for fifty years. His career as a critic and historian has included acclaimed biographies of Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, and John Ford, and three books about Orson Welles. McBride’s extensive journalistic work, the best of which is collected in Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies, includes interviews with directors; profiles of screenwriters; features on stars and craftspeople; accounts of visiting sets; and essays on some of his favorite films. Among the filmmakers he covers in Two Cheers for Hollywood are Billy Wilder, Alfred Hitchcock, George Cukor, John Huston, George Stevens, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Lester, Joe Dante, Hal Ashby, Elia Kazan, Robert Riskin, Abraham Polonsky, Michael Wilson, Marguerite Roberts, John Wayne, James Stewart, Peter O’Toole, and Katharine Hepburn.

Two Cheers for Hollywood is a rich, insightful, often amusing chronicle of McBride’s decades of covering the American film industry and observing its decline from the challenging films of the 1960s to the juvenilia of today. This provocative collection brings together sixty-four pieces with commentaries on them, including a new monograph on the Coen Bros. and several other essays written for this book. Two Cheers for Hollywood demonstrates why McBride has helped set the standard for the field of film scholarship. As the late novelist Thomas Flanagan wrote in The New York Review of Books, McBride “deploys his wide knowledge of American social and film history with tact, wit, and imagination.” McBride is a professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He spent several years as a film critic, reporter, and columnist for Daily Variety in Hollywood. His screenwriting credits include Rock ’n’ Roll High School and five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials on CBS-TV.

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Hightower Press, Berkeley, California
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April 23, 2017
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1946208191
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978-1946208194
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hightower Press, Berkeley, California (April 23, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 695 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1946208191
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1946208194
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds

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Michael McCrann

3 Cheers for McBride

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2017

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Joseph McBride is one of the greatest writers yet to write about the movies. I have a pristine first edition of Searching For John Ford but I keep a much used paperback in my car. Whenever I have to wait (dentist, doctor, subway etc) I take this book out and just start rereading. I think this definitive biography of John Ford is the great movie bio ever. Also love his works on Frank Capra and Howard Hawks. When Variety got cheap and downsized their writers, Mr. McBride sort of disappeared from his great movie reviews. This new collection of previously published material is a movie lover's feast. It would be worth the price just for the article on Gavin Lambert. I heartily recommend this book to movie fanatics (not fans!) like me.

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Michael Barker

Truly remarkable. One of the great film books of all time.

Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018

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Joseph McBride has written about the movies for over 50 years. He’s one of those writers we’ve been reading for decades and have taken for granted. His biography on John Ford is the single best biography of a filmmaker ever written not to mention his controversial biography of Frank Capra (a book with which I have a love/hate relationship). It’s really time to give the guy his due and the accolades he deserves. Two Cheers for Hollywood is a compendium of his best work from over five decades. There is no one as engaged personally in films like Joseph McBride : as an intimate viewer like the rest of us, as critic and immersive interviewer, as a literal savior of lost films, as a director, as an actor (he has a role in Orson Welles’ last film!), and much more.

This book is a primer for anyone who wants an understanding of why we are so personally invested in the movies and wants to know why we like the movies we like. He opens the curtain and shows the nature of the practitioners who are the magicians who create the movies we love. As readers we have an interactive experience agreeing and arguing with McBride as he talks about film after film and artisan after artisan.

Every essay in this book contains something spectacular and revealing: John Huston is no longer “less than meets the eye.” Frank Capra’s real masterpieces came before It Happened One Night, Mr Deeds, and Mr Smith. Blacklisted writers snipe back. Alfred Hitchcock’s secret weapon is his matte artist. Meet Mr and Mrs Hitchcock. Belles of St Mary’s is McBride’s guilty pleasure (now I don’t feel so bad about The Horse Soldiers being my favorite Ford movie). A cogent analysis of Wild River and Fahrenheit 451. A Crazy and energetic Peter O’Toole. James Stewart’s romance with his horse. Stepin Fetchit talking back. Why the Coen brothers are the Coen brothers. John Ford’s Irish blood. Saving the seminal Let There Be Light from extinction.

This is really amazing stuff. With these essays you discover your own personality through the films you love. The book sends you racing to movies you never saw and back to those that you have to see again. If you really want to go deep into what you love about the movies, this book is indispensable.

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marrap

One word to describe this collection: Delicious!

Reviewed in the United States on August 1, 2017

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It’s a collection of very serious, in-depth interviews with key filmmakers from the past (and a few from the present), replete with gossip and details that will expand geometrically whatever knowledge you thought you had before. McBride’s enthusiasms, even if you don’t always agree with them, will send you scurrying to re-see the movies under discussion (I already re-visited two of them). And, it seems to me, that is the best response one can have to criticism or commentary—it makes you want to see or re-see the work being discussed. A thoroughly delightful book!

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Ray Kelly

TWO CHEERS FOR HOLLYWOOD is a collection that will delight movie lovers

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2017

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Long overdue, TWO CHEERS FOR HOLLYWOOD is a collection that will delight movie lovers. This large volume collects some of the best work of journalist and film historian Joseph McBride from the past 50 years. They are all here, from George Cukor to the Coen Brothers. McBride has a deep love of the movies, but always casts a critical eye on the, actors, writers and directors that have filled the big screen.

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Critically Flawed

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2018

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Loved McBride’s Hawks On Hawks and was hoping for further filmmaker interviews insights here. Instead, it’s McBride just interviewing himself for way too long about his process of writing about film. Disappointing.

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