wyszukanych pozycji: 55
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Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts
ISBN: 9780679772910 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " Thomson is] one of the finest film
critics in the English language." --philip lopate, the new york times book review If most film critics write about movies, David Thomson creates their literary counterpart with essays that are as dazzling, haunting, and moving as the pictures they discuss. In this bravura new collection, the Esquire columnist trains his eye on Hollywood's ghosts, exploring their tendency to rise from the grave or descend from the screen to intimately haunt our lives. Thomson conjures up Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, and Cary Grant in... " Thomson is] one of the finest film
critics in the English language." --philip lopate, the new york times book review If most film critics ... |
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61,11 zł |
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How to Watch a Movie
ISBN: 9781101910849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson--one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema--shows us how to get more out of watching any movie. Guiding us through each element of the viewing experience, considering the significance of everything from what we see and hear on-screen--actors, shots, cuts, dialogue, music--to the specifics of how, where, and with whom we do the viewing, Thomson explicates the movie watching experience with his customary candor and wit. Delivering keen analyses of films ranging from Citizen Kane to 12 Years a... In his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson--one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema--shows us how to g... |
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97,78 zł |
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Nairn in Darkness and Light
ISBN: 9780099599906 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This memoir of David Thomson's childhood in Scotland won the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1988. Set in the 1920s, it recreates the varied community of Nairn, with its fishermen and townsfolk, its crofters and its prosperous upper-middle classes. The town has witnessed many of the triumphs and tragedies of Scottish history, and these are recalled here. But the book also charts the author's formative years, during which, whilst playing rugby, he suffered an eye injury which nearly blinded him, and shaped his whole future.
This memoir of David Thomson's childhood in Scotland won the NCR Book Award for Non-Fiction in 1988. Set in the 1920s, it recreates the varied communi...
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84,96 zł |
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The "Alien" Quartet
ISBN: 9780747551812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This pocket book details many different aspects of the Alien films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, the tensions on the set, indeed everything anyone could possibly want to know about them.
This pocket book details many different aspects of the Alien films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, the ten...
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69,02 zł |
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Murder and the Movies
ISBN: 9780300220018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "When we see a murder played out in the movies, we become participants. When artfully crafted, murders become insidious invitations that are nearly impossible to resist. With his encyclopedic knowledge of film and sardonic wit, ... film critic David Thomson explores how murders are presented on screen"--Publisher marketing.
"When we see a murder played out in the movies, we become participants. When artfully crafted, murders become insidious invitations that are nearly im...
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100,89 zł |
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The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film
ISBN: 9780063041417 / Twarda / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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142,59 zł |
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A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
ISBN: 9781780228280 / Miękka / 2021 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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53,08 zł |
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Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
ISBN: 9780679772835 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
-Easily the best book on Orson Welles.- --The New Yorker Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy genius, became a legend with a single perfect film, and then spent the next forty years floundering. But Welles floundered so variously, ingeniously, and extravagantly that he turned failure into -a sustaining tragedy---his thing, his song. Now the prodigal genius of the American cinema finally has the biographer he deserves. For, as anyone who has read his novels and criticism knows, David Thomson is one of our most perceptive and splendidly... A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
-Easily the best book on Orson Welles.- --The New Yorker Orson Welles arrived in Hollywood as a boy ... |
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81,48 zł |
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How to Watch a Movie
ISBN: 9781781250440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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69,02 zł |
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Woodbrook
ISBN: 9780099359913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. This story reverberates with the enchantment of falling in love and with the desolation of bereavement.
A delicate, lyrical picture of a gentle pre-war society, of Irish history and troubled Anglo-Irish relations, and of a delightful family. This story r...
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58,39 zł |
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Remotely: Travels in the Binge of TV
ISBN: 9780300261004 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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106,26 zł |
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Disaster Mon Amour
ISBN: 9780300246940 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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90,27 zł |
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You read what? Significant Australians reflect on their teenage reading
ISBN: 9781922815989 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,02 zł |
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The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood
ISBN: 9780375701542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With the same style and insight he brought to his previous studies of American cinema, acclaimed critic David Thomson masterfully evokes the history of America s love affair with the movies and the tangled history of Hollywood in The Whole Equation.
Thomson takes us from D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and the first movies of mass appeal to Louis B. Mayer, who understood what movies meant to America and reaped the profits. From Capra to Kidman and Hitchcock to Nicholson, Thomson examines the passion, vanity, calculation and gossip of Hollywood and the films it has given us. This... With the same style and insight he brought to his previous studies of American cinema, acclaimed critic David Thomson masterfully evokes the history o...
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73,33 zł |
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Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio
ISBN: 9780300244557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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74,33 zł |
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'Have You Seen...?': a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films including masterpieces, oddities and guilty pleasures (with just a few disasters)
ISBN: 9780141020754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David Thomson set himself the task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked - or in some cases, abhorred. This title is crammed with great love stories, westerns, musicals, war stories, comedies, and dramas.
David Thomson set himself the task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked - or in some cases, abhorred. This tit...
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106,26 zł |
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Moments That Made the Movies
ISBN: 9780500516416 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The excitement ofMomentss? dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own list of memorable moments and then re-experience the films--both those included on Thomson's list and from their own life--as never before. Moments That Made the Movies will undoubtedly reaffirm Thomson's place as--according to John Banville--"the greatest living writer on the movies."
The excitement ofMomentss? dynamic visuals will be matched only by the discussion it incites in film circles, as readers revisit their own li...
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162,76 zł |
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
ISBN: 9780374534134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The definitive story of the medium that defines our times The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen as important as the images it carries. The definitive story of the medium that defines our times The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise ... |
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73,33 zł |
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The Old School: A Portrait of Caulfield Grammar School in 50 Lives
ISBN: 9781925826708 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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122,02 zł |