David Thomson

The Big Screen

The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, this book tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780141047126
• ISBN-10: 0141047127
• Artikelnr.: 37591950

Autorenporträt

David Thomson has a fair claim to be the greatest living writer on film. His major works include The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its 5th edition, and Have You Seen...?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including Masterpieces, Oddities, Guilty Pleasures and Classics (with Just a Few Disasters). Thomson was born in London, and now lives in San Francisco.

Rezensionen

Probably the best overview of the cinema ever written. It sparkles with insight, is packed with anecdote, and pulses with passion ... a glorious celebration of one of humankind's great inventions John Banville Guardian BOOKS OF THE YEAR