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117 produkter
Sudden Flicker of Light
A Revisionist History of the Movies
Inbunden, 2026
267 kr
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From cinema’s most distinguished and ‘The best writer on film in our time’ (Michael Ondaatje) comes a masterful assessment of the whole sweep of movie history‘The movies traded on the liberation of secret desires—drive that car as fast as you can; turn your humble abode into a palace; conquer all …
Big Screen
The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us
Häftad, 2013
198 kr
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In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped us.Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian, Observer and Independent BOOKS OF THE …
Fatal Alliance
A Century of War on Film
Inbunden, 2024
301 kr
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“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides. Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised about …
Fatal Alliance
A Century of War on Film
E-bok, 2023
290 kr
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From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies.Thomsons own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying …
Fatal Alliance
A Century of War on Film
Ljudbok, 2023
208 kr
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“A marvelous bombshell of a book, by one of our most formidably knowledgeable and insightful writers on film, it is filled with surprises and witty asides.Though Thomson is quick to pounce on the hypocrisies and historical omissions of some of these war movies, there is nothing compromised about …
Woodbrook
Häftad, 1994
165 kr
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Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. It has been owned since the seventeenth century by the Anglo-Irish Kirkwoods. In 1932, David Thomson, aged eighteen, went there are a tutor. He stayed for ten years.This memoir, …
Nairn in Darkness and Light
Häftad, 1988
187 kr
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Set in the 1920s, this marvellously sensitive autobiography recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle-classes. Nairn has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of Scottish history, and these are recalled with …
Europe Since Napoleon
Häftad, 1990
225 kr
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A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.
'Have You Seen...?'
a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)
Häftad, 2010
227 kr
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David Thomson's 'Have You Seen?' - A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films is a quirky, idiosyncratic and hugely entertaining look at a century of cinema.This is veteran film writer David Thomson's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and …
'Have You Seen...?'
a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)
E-bok, 2008
170 kr
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This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked – or in some cases, abhorred. Some half-million words of funny, vigorous, wayward prose …
Ingrid Bergman (Great Stars)
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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'Ingrid Bergman was far more than just a sweet, virtuous, "natural" Swedish girl - she was a dark sensualist over whom many men might go mad. Her very gaze delivered a climate of adult romantic expectation.'Adored by millions for her luminous beauty and elegance, at the height of her career Ingrid …
Bette Davis (Great Stars)
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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'She could look demure while behaving like an empress. Blonde, with eyes like pearls too big for her head, she was very striking, but marginally pretty and certainly not beautiful ... But it was her edge that made her memorable - her upstart superiority, her reluctance to pretend deference to …
Gary Cooper (Great Stars)
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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'Cooper was heroic, of course, in his own mind as much as in his scripts. He was manly, tall, ruggedly handsome. He was a man for a fight.'On screen he was the ultimate all-American hero: lean, laconic and masculine, a lone sheriff battling his enemies in High Noon, or a tough individualist in The …
Humphrey Bogart (Great Stars)
E-bok, 2009
79 kr
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'Look, I'm hardly pretty, he seems to say. I sound like gravel; I look rough and tough; and, honest, I don't give you the soft, foolish answers the pretty boys will give you. You may not like what I say, but you better believe it.'He became a legend as 'Bogie', the world-weary, wise-cracking …
Big Screen
The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us
E-bok, 2012
108 kr
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In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped us.Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian, Observer and Independent BOOKS OF THE …
Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus
Av Auburn, Armantrout m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
356 kr
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Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This essential guide for writers provides real-life example sentences and a careful selection of the most relevant synonyms, …
Light in the Dark
A History of Movie Directors
E-bok, 2020
45 kr
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In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as …
Why Acting Matters
Häftad, 2016
412 kr
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A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily lifeDoes acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking …
Murder and the Movies
Inbunden, 2020
247 kr
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A renowned movie critic on film’s treatment of one of mankind’s darkest behaviors: murder “[Thomson’s] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeous. His restlessness is palpable. There is an anxiety in this brief, hurried book that suits these political and medical times.”—Lisa Schwarzbaum, …
Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
Häftad, 2019
173 kr
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Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of American fantasyWarner Bros charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent …
Disaster Mon Amour
Inbunden, 2022
241 kr
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A deep—and darkly comic—dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world “In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends—how we let terror cocoon and take over our …
Murder and the Movies
E-bok, 2020
227 kr
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How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn''t hurt a fly?Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, …
Remotely
Travels in the Binge of TV
Inbunden, 2024
245 kr
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A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. But no one seems to be asking: What is the endless …
Disaster Mon Amour
E-bok, 2022
227 kr
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A deep—and darkly comic—dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world"In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster and catastrophe our best friends—how we let terror cocoon and take over our imaginations …
Try to Tell the Story
E-bok, 2009
211 kr
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David Thomson, one of our most celebrated film writers, gives us a haunting, fascinating memoir about growing up as an only child in wartime England. He was born in London in the aftermath of the war, where he was raised by his mother, grandmother, and upstairs tenant, Miss Davis. He remembers how …
Nicole Kidman
E-bok, 2008
110 kr
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From the brilliant film historian and critic David Thomson, a book that reinvents the star biography in a singularly illuminating portrait of Nicole Kidman—and what it means to be a top actress today. At once life story, love letter, and critical analysis, this is not merely a book about who Kidman …
Rosebud: The Story Of Orson Welles
Häftad, 1997
339 kr
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Rosebud is a riveting and powerful portrait of the rise and fall of one of Hollywood's greatest innovators - the man who brought us Citizen Kane and then lost himself to obesity, small talk and conjuring tricks on daytime television. With humour, pace and the twists of a mystery story, acclaimed …
