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25%OFFDavid Thomson - The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us - 9780141047126 - V9780141047126
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us

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Description for The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us Paperback. Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, this book tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live. Num Pages: 608 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 442.
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. Sunday Times, New Statesman, The Times, Guardian, Observer and Independent BOOKS OF THE YEAR Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, Thomson tracks the ways in which we were initially enchanted by this mesmerizing imitation of life and let movies - the stories, the stars, the look - show us how to live. But at the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141047126
SKU
V9780141047126
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About David Thomson
David Thomson was born in India in 1914 to Scottish parents, but grew up in Scotland and Derbyshire. After the period described in Woodbrook he developed a career in writing and at the BBC. He died in 1988.

Reviews for The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us
[The Big Screen] works both as an engaging primer on film history and as a map for more numinous shifts in the path of popular art ... Thomson offers a nuanced portrait ... the details of his narrative glimmer with offbeat insight
Nathan Heller
New York Times Book Review
There's one standout in this year's slew of ... Read more

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