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A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$25.00 AUD
Category: Film
From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, e ...Show more
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Film
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has ...Show more
Just Yannis by Sir Harold Evans; David Thomson (Foreword by)
$90.00 AUD
Category: Photography
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Film
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 the p ...Show more
Moments that Made the Movies by David Thomson
$40.00 AUD
Category: Film
In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridges pione ...Show more
Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: FSG Classics
A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Joan Didion's Play It as It Lays captures the mood of an entire generation, the ennui of contemporary society reflected in spare prose that blisters and haunts the reader. Set in a place beyond good and evil-literally in Hollywood, Las Vegas, and ...Show more
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us by David Thomson
$50.00 AUD
Category: Film
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. Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, Thomson tracks the ways in whic ...Show more
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson
$70.00 AUD
Category: Film
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. "Thomson's own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying away ...Show more
Warner Bros - The Making of an American Movie Studio by David Thomson
$38.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Jewish Lives
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 to the ...Show more
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Why X Matters Series
Does 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 essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, examining the allure of the performing arts for both the a ...Show more
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Why X Matters Series
A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life.
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