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Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349000176
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film 5Th Ed written by David Thomson and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2020-12-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TITLE DELAYED INDEFINITELY. PLEASE DO NOT SUBSCRIBE.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307271749
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomson (independent scholar), writing of The Biographical Dictionary of Film (aka A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema, 1975 edition), described it as "a personal, opinionated, and obsessive biographical dictionary of the cinema." Thirty-five years and several editions later, that description still holds true of this expanded work. The new dictionary summarizes salient facts about its subjects' lives and discusses their film credits in terms of the quality of the filmmakers' work. In ambition it has competitors, including Leslie Halliwell's various editions of Halliwell's Filmgoers Companion (12th ed., 1997) and Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies, edited by John Walker (4th ed., rev. and updated, 2006), which cover films and technical terms (categories not included in Thomson's), but whose entries are neutral and exceedingly brief. Additionally, Francophile Richard Roud's edited Cinema: A Critical Dictionary: The Major Filmmakers (2 v., 1980) is as passionate a work as Thomson's, but narrower in scope, with entries written by various experts, rather than only by Roud. Finally, the multivolume magnum opus The International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers (4th ed., 2000, ed. by T. Pendergast and S. Pendergast; 2nd ed., ed. by N. Thomas, v. 1, CH, May'91; 1st ed., ed. by C. Lyon, v.1-2, CH, Jan'85, v.3, CH, Apr'87, v.4-5, CH, Jun'88) covers everything--films, directors, actors, writers, and production artists--with generous, measured, scholarly entries and lavish illustrations. However, it looms large and heavy, unlike the handy one-volume work by Thomson. Arguably, Thomson's work, for its scope, is the most fun, the most convenient, and the most engaging title. All libraries supporting people interested in film should buy it. It will get lots of use and provide very good value for the money. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by C. Hendershott.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1101874708
Total Pages : 1168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece” (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone). This new edition updates the older entries and adds 30 new ones: Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuelle Beart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Larry Clark, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Curtis, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Michael Gambon, Christopher Guest, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Spike Jonze, Wong Kar-Wai, Laura Linney, Tobey Maguire, Michael Moore, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Price, Adam Sandler, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, Lew Wasserman, Naomi Watts, and Ray Winstone. In all, the book includes more than 1300 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new “musts,” Thomson has added key figures from film history–lively anatomies of Graham Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael, Abbott and Costello, Noël Coward, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin, and more. Here is a great, rare book, one that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own. Time Out named it one of the ten best books of the 1990s. Gavin Lambert recognized it as “a work of imagination in its own right.” Now better than ever–a masterwork by the man playwright David Hare called “the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing.”
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307594610
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost thirty years, David Thomson’s Biographical Dictionary of Film has been not merely “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, Interview), not merely the “desert island book” of art critic David Sylvester, not merely “a great, crazy masterpiece” (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian), but also “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone). This new edition updates the older entries and adds 30 new ones: Darren Aronofsky, Emmanuelle Beart, Jerry Bruckheimer, Larry Clark, Jennifer Connelly, Chris Cooper, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard Curtis, Sir Richard Eyre, Sir Michael Gambon, Christopher Guest, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Spike Jonze, Wong Kar-Wai, Laura Linney, Tobey Maguire, Michael Moore, Samantha Morton, Mike Myers, Christopher Nolan, Dennis Price, Adam Sandler, Kevin Smith, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlize Theron, Larry Wachowski and Andy Wachowski, Lew Wasserman, Naomi Watts, and Ray Winstone. In all, the book includes more than 1300 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long. In addition to the new “musts,” Thomson has added key figures from film history–lively anatomies of Graham Greene, Eddie Cantor, Pauline Kael, Abbott and Costello, Noël Coward, Hoagy Carmichael, Dorothy Gish, Rin Tin Tin, and more. Here is a great, rare book, one that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own. Time Out named it one of the ten best books of the 1990s. Gavin Lambert recognized it as “a work of imagination in its own right.” Now better than ever–a masterwork by the man playwright David Hare called “the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing.”
Author : David Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780233989532
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (895 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of Film written by David Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revered film critic David Thomson takes us on a voyage through film, giving his own special brand of criticism to each film.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349141118
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book The New Biographical Dictionary Of Film 6th Edition written by David Thomson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than one hundred new entries, from Amy Adams, Benedict Cumberbatch and Cary Joji Fukunaga to Joaquin Phoenix, Mia Wasikowska and Robin Wright, and completely updated, here from David Thomson - 'The greatest living writer on the movies' (John Banville, New Statesman); 'Our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen' (Michael Ondaatje) - is the latest edition of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, which topped Sight & Sound's poll of international critics and writers as THE BEST FILM BOOK EVER WRITTEN.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374191891
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Big Screen written by David Thomson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores movies and media across time, and asks about the role of movies in modern life, from imitations of life to culture changing, as escapes from everyday reality and its responsibilities, or as guides on how to live.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780141047126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (471 download)
Download or read book The Big Screen written by David Thomson and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Thomson tells the enthralling story of the movies and how they have shaped us. Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, he tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerising imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live. But at the same time he shows us how movies have made it possible for us to evade life altogether.
Author : David Thomson
Publisher : Harvill Secker
ISBN 13 : 9780436520112
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book A Biographical Dictionary of the Cinema written by David Thomson and published by Harvill Secker. This book was released on 1975 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary K. Mannix
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838912958
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography written by Mary K. Mannix and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Author : Jack O'Gorman
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 0838919766
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Reference Sources for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries written by Jack O'Gorman and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on new reference sources published since 2008 and reference titles that have retained their relevance, this new edition brings O’Gorman’s complete and authoritative guide to the best reference sources for small and medium-sized academic and public libraries fully up to date.
Author : Mark Breeze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501361449
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Forms of the Cinematic written by Mark Breeze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection explores how cinema calls into question its own frame of reference and, at the same time, how its form becomes the matter of its thought. Building on the axiom (cherished by philosophers of cinema from Epstein to Deleuze) that cinema is a medium that thinks in conjunction with its spectators, this book examines how various forms of the cinematic rethink and redraw the terrain of traditional disciplines, thereby enabling different modes of thought and practice. Areas under consideration by a range of leading academics and practitioners include architecture, science, writing in a visual field, event-theory and historiography.
Author : Patrick Ragains
Publisher : American Library Association
ISBN 13 : 1555708609
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (557 download)
Download or read book Information Literacy Instruction that Works written by Patrick Ragains and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2013 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library’s mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasingly diverse student body and an increasingly varied spectrum of majors? In this updated, expanded new second edition, featuring more than 75% new content, Ragains and 16 other library instructors share their best practices for reaching out to today’s unique users. Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college students, students with disabilities, and those in distance learning programs. Alongside sample lesson plans, presentations, brochures, worksheets, handouts, and evaluation forms, Ragains and his contributors offer proven approaches to teaching students in the most popular programs of study, including English Literature Art and Art History Film Studies History Psychology Science Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Hospitality Business Music Anthropology Engineering Coverage of additional special topics, including legal information for non-law students, government information, and patent searching, make this a complete guide to information literacy instruction.
Author : Douglas Horlock
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496838866
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Films of Delmer Daves written by Douglas Horlock and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delmer Daves (1904–1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly monograph has focused on his work. In The Films of Delmer Daves: Visions of Progress in Mid-Twentieth-Century America, author Douglas Horlock contends that the director’s work warrants sustained scholarly attention. Examining all of Daves’s films, as well as his screenplays, scripts that were not filmed, and personal papers, Horlock argues that Daves was a serious, distinctive, and enlightened filmmaker whose work confronts the general conservatism of Hollywood in the mid-twentieth century. Horlock considers Daves’s films through the lenses of political and social values, race and civil rights, and gender and sexuality. Ultimately, Horlock suggests that Daves’s work—through its examination of bigotry and irrational fear and depiction of institutional and personal morality and freedom—presents a consistent, innovative, and progressive vision of America.
Author : Ian Pettigrew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476641226
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Cinema of Ermanno Olmi written by Ian Pettigrew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ermanno Olmi is one of cinema's great, unsung filmmakers. Emerging onto the Italian art film scene just as the last canonical neo-realist movies were released in the late 1950s and early 1960s, several of Olmi's films, including Il Posto (1961), The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978) and The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), won top prizes at Cannes and Venice. However, the majority of his work has remained unappreciated. This, the first English language book on Olmi, explores the director's style and evolving environmentalism, from his early, institutional short films, made while working at an Italian energy company, to his 19 feature films.
Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
ISBN 13 : 4057664173
Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular Actresses from New York City written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aaron Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501340190
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Authoring Hal Ashby written by Aaron Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casting fresh light on New Hollywood – one of American cinema's most fertile eras – Authoring Hal Ashby is the first sustained argument that, rather than a period dominated by genius auteurs, New Hollywood was an era of intense collaboration producing films of multiple-authorship. Centering its discussion on the films and filmmaking practice of director Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Shampoo, Being There), Hunter's work demonstrates how the auteur paradigm has served not only to diminish several key films and filmmakers of the era, but also to underestimate and undervalue the key contributions to the era's films of cinematographers, editors, writers and other creative crew members. Placing Ashby's films and career within the historical context of his era to show how he actively resisted the auteur label, the author demonstrates how this resistance led to Ashby's marginalization by film executives of his time and within subsequent film scholarship. Through rigorous analysis of several films, Hunter moves on to demonstrate Ashby's own signature authorial contributions to his films and provides thorough and convincing demonstrations of the authorial contributions made by several of Ashby's key collaborators. Building on emerging scholarship on multiple-authorship, Authoring Hal Ashby lays out a creative new approach to understanding one of Hollywood cinema's most exciting eras and one of its most vital filmmakers.
