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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Artist
- Thomson, David
- ISBN
- 9780307271747
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307271749
ISBN-13
9780307271747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
102769931
Product Key Features
Edition
5
Book Title
New Biographical Dictionary of Film : Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded
Number of Pages
1088 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Film / Guides & Reviews, Film / Reference, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2.1 in
Item Weight
57.5 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2010-016450
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Reviews
"From Abbott and Costello to Crumb's Terry Zwigoff, David Thomson expertly caters the banquet of film history in the latest edition of this classic. One critics' poll called it the best movie book ever; it also has some of the finest, orneriest writing in the English language." - Time "Truly, maddeningly, gloriously subjective . . . Buy this book for a friend, and bask in the pleasure of knowing that you have incalculably enriched his life. Buy it for yourself, and book some quality time with one of the finest writers the story of film has ever had." -Saul Austerlitz, San Francisco Chronicle "[A] mad and magnificent opus . . . Thomson is a great rhapsodist of how film acts on his, and therefore our, imagination. . . . Close viewing, and the insights that spring from rapt attention, are what Thomson's criticism is all about. Despite its seemingly straitlaced A-to-Z format, the 'Dictionary' is oddball and Borgesian, finding imaginative ecstasy in its encyclopedic tendency. The book crackles with epigram while often reaching for meanings that endow familiar subjects with a new reality. . . . It's an essential, loony, irresistible book, and scarcely a week passes when I don't submerge myself for an hour or two in its labyrinthine marvels." -Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times "Essential . . . Razor-sharp reviews are often commentaries on both the filmmaker and the audience. . . . We're always aware that we're engaging with a passionate educated human being. Isn't that more interesting and rewarding than marketing-driven Netflix summaries? Great critics are cinema's most inspiring enthusiasts. Four stars." -Jeffrey Overstreet, Books & Culture "Witty, expasive, convincing, honest, more than a little mischievous and, so often, absolutely on the money. Thomson's voice is one of the most distinctive and enjoyable in film criticism. It leaps from the pages of this spruced up classic like flames from a bonfire. . . . Almost every page contains at least one unexpected nugget of information that you would struggle to come across by any other means. . . . However, the real value of this book lies not in facts, but in opinions. Thomson's views are so shrewd, so exquisitely stated that, more often than not, they feel like thoughts you already held but were never quite sure how to put into words. . . In a world awash with amateur pundits, the value of a genuine expert who knows his own mind has never been higher. . . . Dip into any entry and you will find irrefutable proof that his gaze remains as sharp as ever. For as long as there are films worth writing about, Thomson's opinions will remain worth reading." -Benjamin Secher, The Telegraph "The newest edition of David Thomson's New Biographical Dictionary of Film is 1,076 pages long. It weighs a ton. And yet, it's almost impossible to put down." - The New York Observer "Invaluable and occasionally maddening." -Steven Rea, The Kansas City Star "Skip the movie; read David Thomson instead. Addictive . . . his landmark work. You'll see how erudite, generous, cheeky, elegant and fascinating Thomson's writing is. Take any entry and it's impossible not to want to read to the finish." -Kyle Smith, New York Post, "From Abbott and Costello to Crumb's Terry Zwigoff, David Thomson expertly caters the banquet of film history in the latest edition of this classic. One critics' poll called it the best movie book ever; it also has some of the finest, orneriest writing in the English language." - Time "Truly, maddeningly, gloriously subjective . . . Buy this book for a friend, and bask in the pleasure of knowing that you have incalculably enriched his life. Buy it for yourself, and book some quality time with one of the finest writers the story of film has ever had." -Saul Austerlitz, San Francisco Chronicle "[A] mad and magnificent opus . . . Thomson is a great rhapsodist of how film acts on his, and therefore our, imagination. . . . Close viewing, and the insights that spring from rapt attention, are what Thomson's criticism is all about. Despite its seemingly straitlaced A-to-Z format, the 'Dictionary' is oddball and Borgesian, finding imaginative ecstasy in its encyclopedic tendency. The book crackles with epigram while often reaching for meanings that endow familiar subjects with a new reality. . . . It's an essential, loony, irresistible book, and scarcely a week passes when I don't submerge myself for an hour or two in its labyrinthine marvels." -Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times "Essential . . . Razor-sharp reviews are often commentaries on both the filmmaker and the audience. . . . We're always aware that we're engaging with a passionate educated human being. Isn't that more interesting and rewarding than marketing-driven Netflix summaries? Great critics are cinema's most inspiring enthusiasts. Four stars." -Jeffrey Overstreet, Books & Culture "Witty, expasive, convincing, honest, more than a little mischievous and, so often, absolutely on the money. Thomson's voice is one of the most distinctive and enjoyable in film criticism. It leaps from the pages of this spruced up classic like flames from a bonfire. . . . Almost every page contains at least one unexpected nugget of information that you would struggle to come across by any other means. . . . However, the real value of this book lies not in facts, but in opinions. Thomson's views are so shrewd, so exquisitely stated that, more often than not, they feel like thoughts you already held but were never quite sure how to put into words. . . In a world awash with amateur pundits, the value of a genuine expert who knows his own mind has never been higher. . . . Dip into any entry and you will find irrefutable proof that his gaze remains as sharp as ever. For as long as there are films worth writing about, Thomson's opinions will remain worth reading." -Benjamin Secher, The Telegraph "The newest edition of David Thomson's New Biographical Dictionary of Film is 1,076 pages long. It weighs a ton. And yet, it's almost impossible to put down." - The New York Observer "Invaluable and occasionally maddening." -Steven Rea, The Kansas City Star "Skip the movie; read David Thomson instead. Addictive . . . his landmark work. You'll see how erudite, generous, cheeky, elegant and fascinating Thomson's writing is. Take any entry and it's impossible not to want to read to the finish." -Kyle Smith, New York Post, “From Abbott and Costello to Crumb’s Terry Zwigoff, David Thomson expertly caters the banquet of film history in the latest edition of this classic. One critics’ poll called it the best movie book ever; it also has some of the finest, orneriest writing in the English language.� - Time “Truly, maddeningly, gloriously subjective . . . Buy this book for a friend, and bask in the pleasure of knowing that you have incalculably enriched his life. Buy it for yourself, and book some quality time with one of the finest writers the story of film has ever had.� -Saul Austerlitz, San Francisco Chronicle “[A] mad and magnificent opus . . . Thomson is a great rhapsodist of how film acts on his, and therefore our, imagination. . . . Close viewing, and the insights that spring from rapt attention, are what Thomson’s criticism is all about. Despite its seemingly straitlaced A-to-Z format, the ‘Dictionary’ is oddball and Borgesian, finding imaginative ecstasy in its encyclopedic tendency. The book crackles with epigram while often reaching for meanings that endow familiar subjects with a new reality. . . . It’s an essential, loony, irresistible book, and scarcely a week passes when I don’t submerge myself for an hour or two in its labyrinthine marvels.� -Richard Rayner, Los Angeles Times “Essential . . . Razor-sharp reviews are often commentaries on both the filmmaker and the audience. . . . We’re always aware that we’re engaging with a passionate educated human being. Isn’t that more interesting and rewarding than marketing-driven Netflix summaries? Great critics are cinema’s most inspiring enthusiasts. Four stars.� -Jeffrey Overstreet, Books & Culture “Witty, expasive, convincing, honest, more than a little mischievous and, so often, absolutely on the money. Thomson’s voice is one of the most distinctive and enjoyable in film criticism. It leaps from the pages of this spruced up classic like flames from a bonfire. . . . Almost every page contains at least one unexpected nugget of information that you would struggle to come across by any other means. . . . However, the real value of this book lies not in facts, but in opinions. Thomson’s views are so shrewd, so exquisitely stated that, more often than not, they feel like thoughts you already held but were never quite sure how to put into words. . . In a world awash with amateur pundits, the value of a genuine expert who knows his own mind has never been higher. . . . Dip into any entry and you will find irrefutable proof that his gaze remains as sharp as ever. For as long as there are films worth writing about, Thomson’s opinions will remain worth reading.� -Benjamin Secher, The Telegraph “The newest edition of David Thomson’s New Biographical Dictionary of Film is 1,076 pages long. It weighs a ton. And yet, it’s almost impossible to put down.� - The New York Observer “Invaluable and occasionally maddening.� -Steven Rea, The Kansas City Star “Skip the movie; read David Thomson instead. Addictive . . . his landmark work. You’ll see how erudite, generous, cheeky, elegant and fascinating Thomson’s writing is. Take any entry and it’s impossible not to want to read to the finish.� -Kyle Smith, New York Post, "Opinionated, slightly cranky, vastly entertaining, endlessly informative. Of all the reference books I have, this is always the hardest to put down." -Philip Pullman "The single most stunningly informative, learned and provocative book I've encountered about the movies…The breadth of Thomson's research and his skill in writing about that knowledge will take your breath away, whether you are a scholarly aficionado or a weekend filmgoer." -William W. Starr,The State(Columbia, SC) "Thomson's love for the medium is proprietary, possessive, suffused with an academic's breadth of knowledge and a fan's mad crushes. He is by turns analytical and ardent, dryly appalled and moistly enthralledand his book deserves a home on whatever flat surface is available between you and your DVD player." -Mark Harris,Entertainment Weekly "Even more seductive than the last edition . . . One of the most influential books on cinema ever written." -Henry Cabot Beck,New York Daily News "And now, [The Biographical Dictionary of Film]stands before us again, as grand and eccentric as Samuel Johnson's dictionary, or one of the madder, more imaginary encyclopedias you'll find in the pages of Borges . . . Mr. Thomson is, I think, the last of the great film writers, up there with Graham Greene and Pauline Kaelnot least because he has the courage to wonder aloud whether film is greatness' proper medium . . . [He] is here to sing the multiplex bluessitting there, at the back to the cinema, amid the torn velour and spilled Pepsibut this book is the most beautiful of torch songs, and more than bright enough to light up the gloom." -Tom Shone,New York Observer "Thomson has demonstrated wit and originality beyond a reasonable doubt . . . in the latest edition of his deservedly treasured reference work, the book's third and biggest revision since it first appeared in 1975, Thomson proves anew that he is irreplaceable. . . . [The New Biographical Dictionary of Film] is starting to feel like a public resource . . . Thomson's monologue has blossomed into an unlikely, searching dialogue about what to value in the movies . . . Thomson adds another honest wrinkle to one of the most probing accounts ever written of a human being's engagement with the movies." -Sarah Kerr,New York Times Book Review "A reference book of extraordinary literary merit, this eccentric, audacious, sparkling work returnsrevised, updated, and bulging with 300 new entries . . . Probably the greatest living film critic and historian, Thomson, an Englishman who lives in San Francisco, writes the most fun and enthralling prose about the movies since Pauline Kael . . . The book is a marvel." -Benjamin Schwarz,Atlantic Monthly(lead review) "When this book was first published in 1975, it ignited arguments among many film buffs . . . This latest upgradewhich includes 300 new entriespromises to do the same . . . Thomson often nails the essence of a personality or career in less than a dozen words . . . One still turns to [him] for witty writing and potent, razor-sharp insights. With immense passion for pictures, he plunges past the IMDb [Internet Movie Database] into the very soul of film." -Publishers Weekly "Thomson's massive, invaluable attempt to comprehend and compress more than 100 years of movie history into a single volume . . . The massiveness of his erudition and the brisk confidence of his mannerhe's an awfully goo, "The most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing." -David Hare "This book is the most beautiful of torch songs, and more than bright enough to light up the gloom." -Tom Shone,New York Observer "One of the finest film critics in the English language."-The New York Times Book Review "It is a delight to browse through, to leaf through, to read aloud . . . Thomson is the Dr. Johnson of film." -Guillermo Cabrera Infante,The New Republic
Dewey Decimal
791.4302/80922
Edition Description
Revised edition,Expanded
Synopsis
David Thomson's New Biographical Dictionary of Film topped Sight & Sound magazine's 2010 poll of international critics and writers as the best film book of all time. Now in its fifth edition, updated, and with more than 130 new entries--from Judd Apatow to Lena Horne--the classic, beloved film book is better than ever. For thirty-five years, David Thomson's Biographical Dictionary of Film has been "fiendishly seductive" (Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone ), "the finest reference book ever written about movies" (Graham Fuller, Interview ), and "not only an indispensable book about cinema, but one of the most absurdly ambitious literary achievements of our time" (Geoff Dyer, The Guardian ). For this edition, Thomson has brought up to date and in some case recast the biographies, and has added new ones (Clive Owen, Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Marion Cotillard, for example). The book now includes almost 1,500 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long, every one a gem. Here is a great, rare book that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own, from the man David Hare called "the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing."
LC Classification Number
PN1998.2.T49 2010
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