Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts - David Thomson - Bücher - Vintage - 9780679772910 - 24. November 1998
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Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts

David Thomson

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Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts

"[Thomson is] one of the finest film
    critics in the English language."
--philip lopate, the new york times book review

If most film critics write about movies, David Thomson creates their literary counterpart with essays that are as dazzling, haunting, and moving as the pictures they discuss. In this bravura new collection, the Esquire columnist trains his eye on Hollywood's ghosts, exploring their tendency to rise from the grave or descend from the screen to intimately haunt our lives.

Thomson conjures up Jimmy Stewart in Vertigo, Jack Nicholson in Chinatown, and Cary Grant in any of the pictures where he makes every scene look like a lucky accident. With equal aplomb, he imagines a James Dean who survived the car crash and a post-Saturday Night Fever Tony Manero. We learn the "20 Things People Like to Forget About Hollywood" (Number 3: "You Are Their Playthings, Not the Other Way Around"). And on every page of Beneath Mulholland, we are educated, entertained, and enlarged by a book as savvy and incisive as any Hollywood reportage and as lyrical as the best fiction.

"Not just...one of our sharpest
writers-on-film, but...one of our
wisest and best writers, period."  
--film comment

Medien Bücher     Taschenbuch   (Buch mit Softcover und geklebtem Rücken)
Erscheinungsdatum 24. November 1998
ISBN13 9780679772910
Verlag Vintage
Seitenanzahl 288
Maße 129 × 16 × 199 mm   ·   376 g
Sprache Englisch  

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