Cinema as Elegy

Both a witness to America and its cinema since the end of the 1960s, and a transmitter of a Hollywood tradition of which he is one of the most brilliant exegetes, such is Peter Bogdanovich.

This book is composed of two parts. The first is a short introductory essay, which aims to identify the themes and style of one of the most exciting works of American cinema.

The second is the heart of the book, its project, a long conversation of several dozen hours, conducted from 2009 to today. The beginnings, the critical adventure, his meetings with Ford, Wells or Hawks, the status of young prodigy of American cinema, his setbacks with Hollywood, his personal dramas (the assassination of Dorothy Stratten), Mask, his rebirth, the evolution of Hollywood.