Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets Mass market paperbound - 1981
by Kenneth Anger
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Readers largely regard Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon as a cult artifact of lurid, tabloid storytelling about early Hollywood—compulsively readable, image-rich, and unapologetically sleazy. Many enjoy its campy, fever-dream tone and voyeuristic thrills, while acknowledging it blends rumor with fact and is not reliable history. Detractors fault its sloppy, breathless prose, heavy name?dropping, and a cruel streak—often labeled misogynistic and racist—along with numerous claims later debunked. The consensus frames it as dated yet influential: trashy entertainment and a snapshot of scandal culture rather than a trustworthy account.
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- Title Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
- Author Kenneth Anger
- Binding Mass Market Paperbound
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 448
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dell, New York
- Publication date 1981-11-15
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780440153252 / 0440153255
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 in (17.02 x 10.67 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
- Library of Congress subjects Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) - Social, Motion picture actors and actresses -
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.430
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