Remotely
Travels in the Binge of TV
ISBN: HB: 9780300261004,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A leading film critic on the evolving world of streaming media and its impact on society.
The city at night under lockdown, a time of plague and anxiety. It is an exciting new age of television, the light that flutters in every cell in the city. Bu...
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£20.00
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Disaster Mon Amour
ISBN: HB: 9780300246940,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
224 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
224 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
Audiences swell with the scale of disaster; humans have always been drawn to the rumors of our own demise. In this searching treatment, noted film historian David Thomson examines iconic disasters, both real and fictional, exposing the slippage betwe...
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£16.99
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Murder and the Movies
ISBN: HB: 9780300220018,
Yale University Press,
September 2020
240 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
240 pp., 21,6x14,0 cm
How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn't hurt a fly? Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate sub...
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£18.99
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Warner Bros
The Making of an American Movie Studio
ISBN: PB: 9780300244557,
Yale University Press,
April 2019
232 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
232 pp., 21,0x14,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
"Warner Bros" charts the rise of an unpromising film studio from its shaky beginnings in the early twentieth century through its ascent to the pinnacle of Hollywood influence and popularity. The Warner Brothers – Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack – arrive...
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£11.99
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Why Acting Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300195743,
ISBN: HB: 9780300195781,
Yale University Press,
March 2016
192 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
192 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, exam...
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£19.00
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£22.50
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