{"product_id":"the-last-decade-of-cinema-25-films-from-the-nineties-paperback-1","title":"The Last Decade of Cinema: 25 Films from the Nineties - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eScott Ryan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis provocative tome, sure to foment heated discussions among cinephiles of all generations, argues that the 1990s was the last decade in which films were made for grownups, with complex, adult-based plots, nuanced characters, and meaningful themes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I feel like Scott Ryan could have written this directly to me and others in our generation who have basically 'given up' on movies. It is at once tribute and eulogy, so bittersweet.\" - Screenwriter Helen Childress \u003ci\u003e(Reality Bites\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan.\" - Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (\u003ci\u003eTwo Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAh, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We're talking about a decade that began with \u003ci\u003eGoodFellas\u003c\/i\u003e and ended with \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e, with such films as\u003ci\u003e Malcolm X, Before Sunrise\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eClueless\u003c\/i\u003e arriving somewhere in between. Stories, characters, and writing were king; IP, franchise movies, and supersaturated superhero flicks were still years away. Or so says Scott Ryan, the iconoclastic author of The Last Days of Letterman and Moonlighting: An Oral History, who here turns his attention to \u003ci\u003eThe Last Decade of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e--the prolific 1990s. Ryan, who watched just about every film released during the decade when he was a video store clerk in a small town in Ohio, identifies twenty-five unique and varied films from the decade, including \u003ci\u003ePretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Menace II Society\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Prince of Tides\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Shawshank Redemption\u003c\/i\u003e, focusing with his trademark humor and insight on what made them classics and why they could never be produced in today's film culture. The book also includes interviews with writers, directors, and actors from the era. Go back to the time of VCR's, DVD rentals, and movies that mattered. Turn off your streaming services, put down your phones, delete your Twitter account, and take a look back at the nineties with your \u003ci\u003eEyes Wide Shut\u003c\/i\u003e, a White Russian in your hand, and yell \"Hasta la vista, baby\" to today's meaningless entertainment. Revel in the risk-taking brilliance of Quentin Tarantino, Amy Heckerling, Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson, and others in Scott Ryan's magnum opus, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Decade of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eScott Ryan is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Days of Letterman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlways Music in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLost Highway: The Fist of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMassillon Against the World\u003c\/i\u003e, and the best seller \u003ci\u003eMoonlighting: An Oral History\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the host of the YouTube series \u003ci\u003eTiger Talk\u003c\/i\u003e, the co-president of Fayetteville Mafia Press and Tucker DS Press, and the managing editor and creative director of \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Rose\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Yes, he does collect vinyl records, is against streaming, and thinks the internet made everything worse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 18, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46729794322629,"sku":"9781949024708","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/FyVsaKc3Ca9781949024708_4fc0318f-96de-4edc-b21a-eeaad03e6840.webp?v=1786762681","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-last-decade-of-cinema-25-films-from-the-nineties-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}