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The Whole Equation: a History of Hollywood
David Thomson
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Description for The Whole Equation: a History of Hollywood
Paperback. * 'A History of Hollywood, Its Money and Dreams - and what it did to us Num Pages: 448 pages, Integrated: 16, int b/w. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 308.
A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in the dark auditoriums. There isn't a book that explains - even at a basic level - how the business, the money, of pictures operates. THE WHOLE EQUATION takes the history and describes the grand panorama so that the reader knows how he or she fitted in, along with Bogart, the Marx Brothers and Daryl Zanuck. The business is the ... Read more
A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in the dark auditoriums. There isn't a book that explains - even at a basic level - how the business, the money, of pictures operates. THE WHOLE EQUATION takes the history and describes the grand panorama so that the reader knows how he or she fitted in, along with Bogart, the Marx Brothers and Daryl Zanuck. The business is the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349117690
SKU
V9780349117690
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Ref
99-10
About David Thomson
David Thomson was born in London but has lived in California since 1975, establishing a huge reputation as a writer about cinema.
Reviews for The Whole Equation: a History of Hollywood
A sprawling collection of hard-edged anecdotes.
SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE
Tracing movie from birth to, perhaps, a death of sorts at the hands of new technology, he conjures more thrills and insight in his elegant, melliflous style and staggering knowledge, than almost any modern film you care to mention. Idiosyncratic, for sur
TOTAL FILM
Essential.
NEW STATESMAN ... Read more
SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE
Tracing movie from birth to, perhaps, a death of sorts at the hands of new technology, he conjures more thrills and insight in his elegant, melliflous style and staggering knowledge, than almost any modern film you care to mention. Idiosyncratic, for sur
TOTAL FILM
Essential.
NEW STATESMAN ... Read more