About the Author

Christopher Beach is author of several books, including Class, Language, and American Film Comedy, The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, and Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry between Community and Institution.

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Christopher Beach's study of the rise and fall of Hal Ashby not only enlightens us about the inner workings of the director's films but about the decade of the 1970s when he did his best work. This is an important addition to our understanding of the 'new Hollywood' and the changes in filmmaking of which Ashby's films were so much a part."--Robert Kolker "author of A Cinema of Loneliness "

Incredibly, there has been no critical biography of the ex-Mormon hippie who made the brilliant, prescient Being There (and Harold and Maude, Coming Home, and Shampoo)-until now. Christopher Beach brings Hal Ashby and his smart, quirky films into sharp and appreciative focus.--Ed Sikov "author of Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers "

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