{"product_id":"beneath-mulholland-thoughts-on-hollywood-and-its-ghosts-paperback","title":"Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\" Thomson is] one of the finest film\u003cbr\u003e critics in the English language.\"\u003cbr\u003e--philip lopate, the new york times book review \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomson 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Not just...one of our sharpest \u003cbr\u003e writers-on-film, but...one of our \u003cbr\u003ewisest and best writers, period.\" \u003cbr\u003e--film comment\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Thomson is] one of the finest film\u003cbr\u003e critics in the English language.\u003cbr\u003e--philip lopate, the new york times book review \u003cbr\u003eIf 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. \u003cbr\u003eThomson 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. \u003cbr\u003e\"Not just...one of our sharpest \u003cbr\u003e writers-on-film, but...one of our \u003cbr\u003ewisest and best writers, period.\" \u003cbr\u003e--film comment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Thomson is the author of \u003cb\u003eA Biographical Dictionary of Film\u003c\/b\u003e (three editions), \u003cb\u003eShowman: The Life of David O. Selznick, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles\u003c\/b\u003e and three works of fiction: \u003cb\u003eSuspects, Silver Light\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWarren Beatty\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eDesert Eyes.\u003c\/b\u003e His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Movieline, Vanity Fair, The New Republic and Esquire, to which he contributes a monthly column on the movies. Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.96 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 24, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468112380157,"sku":"9780679772910","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/RVdHSnpiWE9LUEFvejdiWXIzditGdz09.webp?v=1777285421","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/beneath-mulholland-thoughts-on-hollywood-and-its-ghosts-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}