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David Thomson (1) (1941–)

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David Thomson is the author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, now in its fifth edition. His recent books include a biography of Nicole Kidman and The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood, and Have You Seen ?: A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films. Born in London, he now lives in San vis mere Francisco. vis mindre
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Værker af David Thomson

Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles (1996) 224 eksemplarer
Suspects (1985) 143 eksemplarer
Biographical Dictionary of Film (1975) 135 eksemplarer
How to Watch a Movie (2015) 123 eksemplarer
Television: A Biography (2016) 75 eksemplarer
Hollywood: A Celebration! (2001) 68 eksemplarer
Moments That Made the Movies (2013) 63 eksemplarer
The Big Sleep (BFI Film Classics) (1997) 62 eksemplarer
Why Acting Matters (2015) 35 eksemplarer
Silver Light (1990) 33 eksemplarer
Nicole Kidman (1721) 31 eksemplarer
Try to Tell the Story: A Memoir (1976) 28 eksemplarer
Marlon Brando (A & E Biography) (2003) 21 eksemplarer
Humphrey Bogart (Great Stars) (2009) 17 eksemplarer
Ingrid Bergman (Great Stars) (2009) 15 eksemplarer
4-2 (1996) 14 eksemplarer
Gary Cooper (Great Stars) (2009) 14 eksemplarer
Movie man (1967) 14 eksemplarer
Bette Davis (2009) 14 eksemplarer
Murder and the Movies (2020) — Forfatter — 11 eksemplarer
Laurence Sterne : eine Biographie (1991) 7 eksemplarer
Scott's Men (1652) 5 eksemplarer

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Fan-Tan (2005) — Redaktør — 93 eksemplarer
Marilyn Monroe: A Life in Pictures (2007) — Forord — 28 eksemplarer

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Another delving into the long-ago purchased and neglected virtual Kindle pile. If anybody could bring off a one volumes history it is David Thomson and many of his other books have given me pleasure, but here he seems too aware of both some notional restriction on length and a desire to be comprehensive. In practice this means the book is short on the insight, eye for detail and originality that characterise much of Thomsons’ work and just feels pretty dutiful. But it will nevertheless give you a reasonably clear chronological picture.

Is it fair to take Taruskin’s 'Oxford History of Western Music' as the benchmark for single author history in the arts? OUP obviously gave Taruskin carte blanche but if you compare his volume on the first part of the 20th Century (fearless in opinion, unmatched in authority, not afraid to deep dive to a very technical level and ruthless in its narrative omission) it does expose the faultiness in a book like Thomson’s.
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djh_1962 | 4 andre anmeldelser | Jan 7, 2024 |
Impressively comprehensive and, for a (nominal) dictionary, highly personal and opinionated. Thompson and I don't necessarily share the same opinions, but I appreciated reading his.
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adamhindman | 12 andre anmeldelser | Dec 11, 2023 |
No more elegant writer ever wrote on film and film history than does David Thomson. His analyses (with his own special brand of insight and opinion) as well as his superb novels rooted in American movies (SUSPECTS and SILVER LIGHT) are remarkable in their poetic eloquence and original understanding of not just films themselves, but what films mean as a cultural phenomenon. GARY COOPER is a minor effort in his oeuvre, part of a series of monographs on four major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age (BETTE DAVIS, INGRID BERGMAN, and HUMPHREY BOGART are the other books). Thomson writes biographically but also analytically, investing the work with his lovely prose. It's not the full and deeply investigative biography Cooper deserves (and I don't think yet has), and one can complain that it isn't as rich an experience as it could be. But for a short work of this nature, it is a worthwhile effort, and Thomson's writing is so skillful as to enlarge the experience of reading it.… (mere)
 
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jumblejim | Aug 26, 2023 |
How the moment of the knife and blood changed movies as we know them. Really interesting read.
 
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