Indie, Inc. Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s

Perren's account is a corrective to the juicier journalistic record, particularly the gossipy standard narrative, Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures (Simon and Schuster, 2004). Biskind's popularity is probably safe: Perren's style is that of someone turning on the lights at a party, and her informative, eye-opening argument is intentionally deflating and unromantic...She busts myths, and persuasively so...--Christine Smallwood, Columbia University"Film Quarterly" (10/01/2012)