Böcker av Bill Mesce

"The only place in the world that has more information about movies than Bill Mesce is Google, and when Google is stuck, it calls Bill. He loves and understands them: the classics, the disasters, where they have been and where they are headed. He is incredible writer and takes you into them in a way that opens new understanding of why they are the way they are and how they got that way. The next best thing to going to the movies is to read what Bill Mesce has to say about them."Bill Persky,Five-time Emmy Award-winning writer and directorThe Dick Van Dyke Show, The Bill Cosby Special,Kate & Allie, and creator of That Girl. "Smart, insightful and often funny, Bill Mesce's essays are the best reminder I can find in print of why I love movies. Whether one knows the films he writes about well or just a bit, it's a joy to have Bill take you into his world of movies."Josh Sapan,CEO and President, AMC Networks "If you want the hidden story of the men and women who made Hollywood what it is today, the good the bad and the ugly, from an unconventional savant, then Bill Mesce's tour is the book for you."Jeff Bewkes,Chairman and CEO, Time Warner "Bill Mesce's Reel Change is a book that any filmgoer, film lover, or film historian should read. It is full of smart and witty anecdotes and insightful historical commentary about the personal and emotional relationships to the magical and transformative experience that is watching movies."Andrew GoldmanVP, HBO/CinemaxProgram Planning and SchedulingAdjunct Professor, Tisch School of the Arts,New York University "Mesce's book is pure, red meat cinema (Blondes! Bond! Peckinpah! Tarantino!), he writes entertainingly and well about the movies and movie makers that got most of us going to the multiplex in the first place." David BreckmanCo-executive producer of the Emmy-winning crime series, Monk

One of the most controversial films of its time, The Wild Bunch is the epitome of the no-holds-barred filmmaking of the 1960s and 1970s. It revived the career of volatile, self-destructive director Sam Peckinpah - it also hung on him the label him "Bloody Sam". This book tells the complete story of the film's production, reception and legacy.

An industry professional's insider's look at the craft, practice, and business of screenwriting, exploding some of the most popular myths about writing for the movies by showing how little relevance they have to actual working conditions. Analytical essays stand side by side with not only the author's own in-the-field experiences, but commentary offered by veteran industry pros.

Before the launch of Home Box Office in 1972, the TV industry had changed little since the birth of broadcast network television in the late 1940s. The arrival of the premium cable channel began a revolution in the business and programming of TV. This is the story of HBO's reconfiguration of television and the company's continual reinvention of itself in a competitive and dynamic industry.

Peckinpah's Women examines the confluence of factors that worked with, and often against, Peckinpah's cinematic voice to divine a recurring positive theme regarding women in those films that form the heart of his body of work: his period Westerns.

Artists on the Art of Survival examines the lives of artists as some continue to struggle to find their place, others have managed to carve out a niche for themselves, and still others have, for a variety of reasons, moved on to something else.