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Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments-- which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery-- from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inex...
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Thames & Hudson,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2013. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Film scholar David Thomson focuses in on a series of moments-- which his readers will also experience in beautifully reproduced imagery-- from 72 films across a 100-year-plus span. Moments takes readers on an unprecedented visual tour, where the specifics of the imagery the reader is seeing are inextricably tied to the text. Thomson's moments range from a set of Eadweard Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic-- Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, The Red Shoes-- to the unexpected-- The Piano Teacher, Burn After Reading. The excitement of the book's dynamic visu |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | 303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780500516416 (cloth) : 0500516413 |
| Index Number: | PN1995 |
| CLC: | J951.1-09 |
| Call Number: | J951.1-09/T482 |
| Contents: | One Woman Standing, Another Sitting And Crossing Legs -- The Passion Of Joan Of Arc -- Sunrise -- Pandora's Box -- Morocco -- M -- 20,000 Years In Sing Sing -- Oodsworth -- Bringing Up Baby -- Gone With The Wind -- The Shop Around The Corner -- The Letter -- Citizen Kane -- The Lady Eve -- Casablanca -- Laura -- Meet Me In St. Louis -- The Big Sleep -- The Red Shoes -- The Third Man -- White Heat -- Sunset BLVD -- The River -- A Place In The Sun -- Strangers On A Train -- Tokyo Story -- The Band Wagon -- A Star Is Born -- Sansho The Bailiff -- Lola Montes -- The Night Of The Hunter -- The Se |