What the Movies Made Me Do

Authors: Braudy, Susan
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC044000, FIC027430, FIC052000
ISBN: 9780804153539, Related ISBNs: 0394532465, 0804153531, 9780394532462, 9780804153539
Classification: Non-Fiction
Number of pages: 233,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: From the author of Who Killed Sal Mineo?: a wonderful and spirited novel—funny and candid and on the mark—that takes us inside the frenetic and glamorous world of big-time Hollywood movie-making. Susan Braudy, who was a production vice-president for one of the major studios, now reveals how a few cunning executives control the secret million-dollar, life-and-death decisions—and decide who can make movies and how much they will cost.
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