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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791
EAN: 9780316726603
Edition: 4th Revised edition
ISBN: 0316726605
Label: Little, Brown
Manufacturer: Little, Brown
Number Of Pages: 965
Publication Date: October 02, 2003
Publisher: Little, Brown
Studio: Little, Brown
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Take no notice of Thomas from Norway - this is a fabulous work. I'm an Oscar nominated screenwriter and there is no better volume for understanding what film could and should be. It is fabulously opinionated, but always thoughtful and never churlish. I have found it a real joy and endless resource. It doesn't purport to be a comprehensive reference but you'll get a wider understanding about the scope of what cinema has meant than reading any other single work. It is clearly written ... Read More
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This is a magnificent book: if I were allowed only one book on film then I would unhesitatingly choose this one. Arranged alphabetically, and covering virtually every important actor, director and producer in film history (and many other figures associated with film), it provides fairly thorough filmographies, but it’s not intended as a reference book. On questions of fact (‘Who won Best Supporting Actor in 1975?’; ‘Who played Marlowe in Murder My Sweet?’) ... Read More
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The New Biographical Dictionary of Film is a revised edition of Thomson's seminal book on cinema- one of the key film books alongside The Cinema Book, Film Art & Susan Hayward's glossary of film terms. Quite simply, it is a book no serious fan should be without- & is of far more interest than things like Halliwell's or Virgin's Film Guides (you can get all that info off IMDB). Thomson is one of the greatest writers on cinema & in this 900-plus page tome, he scans cinema (filmmakers, actors, ... Read More
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