Burn It Down

Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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Maureen Ryan

Verlag:

HarperCollins

Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35994800

EAN: 9780063269316

Erhältlich:

Nicht auf Lager

Zustellung: Mo, 12.10.2026

Versand: Kostenlos

CHF 30.–

Beschreibung

NEW YORK TIMES. BESTSELLER LOS ANGELES TIMES. BESTSELLER. An NPR Best Book of the Year. In this spectacular, newsmaking exposé that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair. 's Maureen Ryan blows the lid off patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and the labor and activist revolutions that recent scandals have ignited. It is never just One Bad Man. Abuse and exploitation of workers is baked into the very foundations of the entertainment industry. To break the cycle and make change that sticks, it’s important to stop looking at headline-making stories as individual events. Instead, one must look closely at the bigger picture, to see how abusers are created, fed, rewarded, allowed to persist, and, with the right tools, how they can be excised. In Burn It Down. , veteran reporter Maureen Ryan does just that. She draws on decades of experience to connect the dots and illuminate the deeper forces sustaining Hollywood’s corrosive culture. Fresh reporting sheds light on problematic situations at companies like Lucasfilm and shows like Lost. , Saturday Night Live. , The Goldbergs. , Sleepy Hollow. , Curb Your Enthusiasm. and more. Interviews with actors and famous creatives like Evan Rachel Wood, Harold Perrineau, Damon Lindelof, and Orlando Jones abound. Ryan dismantles, one by one, the myths that the entertainment industry promotes about itself, which have allowed abusers to thrive and the industry to avoid accountability—myths about Hollywood as a meritocracy, what it takes to be creative, the value of human dignity, and more. Weaving together insights from industry insiders, historical context, and pop-culture analysis, Burn It Down. paints a groundbreaking and urgently necessary portrait of what’s gone wrong in the entertainment world—and how we can fix it.

Spezifikationen

Sprache

Englisch

Autor

Maureen Ryan

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Format

Buch (Softcover)

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