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A notable work by the doyen of writers about cinema

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The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies....

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An enlightening guide to all the magical workings of watching film from 'a giant in the world of film criticism' (The Times).

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From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books....

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Ultimately an examination on how movies affect the way we think and how film not only shapes our perceptions and our memories but in some ways comes to stand in for them, Suspects can be read as an unsettling examination of identity and the construction of self through the medium of narratives, or simply as a fascinating take on movie...

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"First published in 1997 by the British Film Institute"--Copyright page.

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This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in "Citizen Kane" in 1941. Orson Welles seemed to possess inhuman energy and a phenomenal voice but in the final rootless years when he yielded to obesity, this cinematic genius became a tragic figure.

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Looks at a century of cinema. This title is the author's personal, irreverent, hilarious and utterly original take on the 1,000 films he has most loved - and hated - from "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" to "Zabriskie Point", from esteemed classics to forgotten curiosities, guilty pleasures to noir treats, horror gems to kitsch disasters.

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A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering all of the main topics of that period.

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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.

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Renowned film critic David Thomson plumbs the horror and inspiration of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest film.

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* 'A History of Hollywood, Its Money and Dreams - and what it did to us

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Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. He stayed for ten years.

This memoir, acknowledged as a masterpiece, grew out of two great loves - for Woodbrook and for Phoebe, his pupil.

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A commentary on film noir and the forms of Hollywood story-telling, in which the characters of Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime start to meet each other outside the films as if they were real people with real needs and passions. It is ultimately an examination on how movies affect the way we think.