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The Big Screen: The Story of The Movies by David Thomson (Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- History & Criticism
- EAN
- 9780374534134
- ISBN
- 9780374534134
- Release Year
- 2013
- Publication Name
- Big Screen
- ISBN-10
- 0374534136
- Title
- Big Screen
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Release Date
- 10/15/2013
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374534136
ISBN-13
9780374534134
eBay Product ID (ePID)
159840159
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Screen : the Story of the Movies
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2013
Topic
Film / General, Popular Culture, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
19.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2012-009140
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"David Thomson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. If 'Have You Seen . . . ?' was his most succinct and entertaining book, The Big Screen is a large and vivacious map of 'the screen': beginning with Muybridge and tracing careers ranging from Korda to Renoir to Hawkes to Mizoguchi, to David Lynch and Tarantino, then swerving over to television shows such as I Love Lucy and The Sopranos . Thomson has found and created a marvelous plot for the history of film, with insights and revelations on every page-as well as a few MacGuffins. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen." -Michael Ondaatje, author of The Cat's Table "David Thomson has composed a grand aesthetic, spiritual, and moral account of cinema history assembled around the movies and artists that have meant the most to him. As Thomson reconstructs film history, movies bring us close to reality and deliver us into ecstatic dreams. A pungently written, brilliant book." -David Denby, author of Snark and film critic at The New Yorker "A great critic cuts both ways-he nudges you into reconsidering the films you love, as well as the ones you dislike. David Thomson's sensual prose has always amplified the imagination of a great critic. In broad outline, The Big Screen is a history of the movies, a wide-ranging task that usually carries with it a certain amount of connect-the-dots tedium. But Thomson's emphases are typically fresh and often ecstatic, even when he's disparaging a film you love. Nobody does it better." -Scott Eyman, author of Empire of Dreams and Lion of Hollywood, "David Thomson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. If 'Have You Seen . . . ?' was his most succinct and entertaining book, The Big Screen is a large and vivacious map of 'the screen': beginning with Muybridge and tracing careers ranging from Korda to Renoir to Hawkes to Mizoguchi, to David Lynch and Tarantino, then swerving over to television shows such as I Love Lucy and The Sopranos . Thomson has found and created a marvelous plot for the history of film, with insights and revelations on every page--as well as a few MacGuffins. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen." -- Michael Ondaatje, author of The Cat's Table "David Thomson has composed a grand aesthetic, spiritual, and moral account of cinema history assembled around the movies and artists that have meant the most to him. As Thomson reconstructs film history, movies bring us close to reality and deliver us into ecstatic dreams. A pungently written, brilliant book." -- David Denby, author of Snark and film critic at The New Yorker "A great critic cuts both ways--he nudges you into reconsidering the films you love, as well as the ones you dislike. David Thomson's sensual prose has always amplified the imagination of a great critic. In broad outline, The Big Screen is a history of the movies, a wide-ranging task that usually carries with it a certain amount of connect-the-dots tedium. But Thomson's emphases are typically fresh and often ecstatic, even when he's disparaging a film you love. Nobody does it better." -- Scott Eyman, author of Empire of Dreams and Lion of Hollywood, A great critic cuts both ways--he nudges you into reconsidering the films you love, as well as the ones you dislike. David Thomson's sensual prose has always amplified the imagination of a great critic. In broad outline, The Big Screen is a history of the movies, a wide-ranging task that usually carries with it a certain amount of connect-the-dots tedium. But Thomson's emphases are typically fresh and often ecstatic, even when he's disparaging a film you love. Nobody does it better., David Thomson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. If 'Have You Seen . . . ?' was his most succinct and entertaining book, The Big Screen is a large and vivacious map of 'the screen': beginning with Muybridge and tracing careers ranging from Korda to Renoir to Hawkes to Mizoguchi, to David Lynch and Tarantino, then swerving over to television shows such as I Love Lucy and The Sopranos . Thomson has found and created a marvelous plot for the history of film, with insights and revelations on every page--as well as a few MacGuffins. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen., David Thomson has composed a grand aesthetic, spiritual, and moral account of cinema history assembled around the movies and artists that have meant the most to him. As Thomson reconstructs film history, movies bring us close to reality and deliver us into ecstatic dreams. A pungently written, brilliant book.
Dewey Decimal
791.430973
Synopsis
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. But The Big Screen is not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many media to tell the complex, gripping, paradoxical story of the movies. He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of life--the stories, the stars, the look--and how we allowed them to show us how to live. At the same time, movies, offering a seductive escape from everyday reality and its responsibilities, have made it possible for us to evade life altogether. The entranced audience has become a model for powerless and anxiety-ridden citizens trying to pursue happiness and dodge terror by sitting quietly in a dark room. Does the big screen take us out into the world or merely mesmerize us? That is Thomson's question in this grand adventure of a book, vital to anyone trying to make sense of the age of screens--the age that, more than ever, we are living in.
LC Classification Number
PN1993.5.U6T463 2012
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- 2***0 (168)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseSuch a beautiful book was just as described by seller in great condition the price was fair and it shipped fast and safely packaged
- _***o (63)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseGreat experience! The item was exactly as described by the seller. It arrived in a timely fashion and was packed with great care. I would not hesitate to order from this seller again!RARE 1995 Byers Choice Christmas Caroler Charles Dickens Sandwich Board Man HTF (#226541147931)