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A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$24.99 AUD
Category: film and television
From the celebrated film critic and author of The Biographical Dictionary of Film--an essential work on the preeminent, indispensable movie directors and the ways in which their work has forged, and continues to forge, the landscape of modern film. Directors operate behind the scenes, managing actors, e ...Show more
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
$19.99 AUD
Category: THE ARTS
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience.Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has ...Show more
How to Watch a Movie by David Thomson
$29.99 AUD
Category: THE ARTS | Reading Level: very good
From one of the most admired critics of our time, brilliant insights into the act of watching movies and an enlightening discussion about how to derive more from any film experience. Since first publishing his landmark Biographical Dictionary of Film in 1975 (now in its sixth edition), David Thomson has ...Show more
Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$32.99 AUD
Category: film and television
In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the p ...Show more
Moments that Made the Movies by David Thomson
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Category: THE ARTS | Reading Level: very good
In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridges pione ...Show more
Television: A Biography by David Thomson
$45.00 AUD
Category: THE ARTS
In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to watch sponsored programming on a finite number of channels, morphed into a glowing cloud of screens with access to a near-endless supply of content available w ...Show more
The Fatal Alliance: A Century of War on Film by David Thomson
$70.00 AUD
Category: film and television
From one of the greatest living writers on film, a magisterial look at a century of battle depicted on screen, and a meditation on the twisted relationship between war and the movies. "Thomson's own genius is his ability to remain one of the leading authorities on cinematic history, without shying away ...Show more
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