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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film explores how sexuality in the movies and the performances of iconic actors have reflected cultural experimentation and the fulfillment of latent desires.
From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film, an original, seductive account of sexuality in the movies and of how actors and actresses on screen have fed our desire. Film can make us...
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments--which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery--from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson's moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic--Citizen...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Directors operate behind the scenes managing actors, establishing a cohesive creative vision, at times literally guiding our eyes with the eye of the camera. But we are often so dazzled by the visions onscreen that it is easy to forget the individual who is off-screen orchestrating the entire production--to say nothing of their having marshalled a script, a studio, and other people's money. David Thomson, in his usual brilliantly insightful way,...