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23 February 2017
The best one-volume guide to the history of film.
1 of 1 found this helpful In 525 pages of scintillating prose, Thomson takes his readers on a tour of what he refers to as "movie" - by which he means everything that cinema/film contains, the whole shebang. Starting with Edweard Muybridge's experiments in sequential photography of animal and human movement, continuing through the technical developments by the Lumiere brothers and Thomas Edison, on into the beginnings of true narrative cinema in the silent days, and culminating with the advent of sound films in the late 20s, the author provides unique insights into cinema's beginnings: its pioneers and trail-blazers, its key actors, directors, producers and technicians, and provides informative side-trips into the cinema of other countries. His story continues through the early years of colour film, the advent of TV and what that did to "movie", the relaxation of censorship in the 60s and 70s, the coming of the blockbuster and the apotheosis of the serial, and takes us into the new millenium, with its multiplicity of screens, large and (increasingly) small. It's a rollercoaster ride, and an exhilarating one. You won't always agree with him, but you'll never be bored. Every home should have one!
24 December 2017
An American poet not well-enough known in Britain. The Title poem alone is worth the price of the book. Remarkable, and very moving.
14 March 2019
Theroux's Turn in the South
This is one of best travelogues Theroux has ever written, especially as it concerns an area of his own country with which he was fairly unfamiliar. He tours the blighted, post-industrial South on four separate trips, getting to know ordinary working people, chronicling their daily lives and hardsdhips, noting how some of them are doing their damnedest to make their hometowns recover from the worst recession most of them can remember. It contains some of his best and most empathetic writing in many years. An imoressive read.