Scott Ryan - The Last Decade of Cinema - Virtual Book Tour
Nonfiction, Television, Performing Arts
Date Published: Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2024 (FMP Publishing)
“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 (Reality Bites)
“The nineties are lucky to have Scott Ryan.” – Actress Natasha Gregson Wagner (Two Girls and a Guy, Lost Highway)
Ah, the nineties. Movies were something in those days. We’re talking about a decade that began with GoodFellas and ended with Magnolia, with such films as Malcolm X, Before Sunrise, and Clueless 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 The Last Decade of Cinema—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 Pretty Woman, Pulp Fiction, Menace II Society, The Prince of Tides, and The Shawshank Redemption, 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 Eyes Wide Shut, 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, The Last Decade of Cinema.
Virtual Book Tour - June 17 - June 28
June 17 - RABT Book Tours - Kick Off
June 17 - Momma and Her Stories - Excerpt
June 18 - Crossroad Reviews - Spotlight*
June 19 - My Reading Addiction - Interview
June 20 - My Bookmarked Reads - Spotlight
June 21 - Texas Book Nook - Review
June 22 - Nana's Book Reviews - Spotlight
June 23 - Tea Time and Books - Spotlight
June 24 - The Avid Reader - Interview
June 25 - Matters That Count - Spotlight
June 26 - Our Town Book Reviews - Excerpt
June 27 - On a Reading Bender - Review
June 28 - The Indie Express - Review
June 28 - RABT Reviews - Wrap Up
Contact Links
Website: https://www.tuckerdspress.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scott.ryan.942
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScottLuckStory
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/90s_movies_the_last_decade/
Blog: https://www.scottryanproductions.com/
Purchase Links
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949024709
Tucker DS Press Link: https://www.tuckerdspress.com/product-page/the-last-decade-of-cinema
Giveaway
Amazon Gift Card $25
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