Whole Equation A History of Hollywood

Name: Whole Equation A History of Hollywood
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ISBN: 9780375701542

ISBN-10: 0375701540

ISBN-13: 9780375701542

Edition: 2006

Authors: David Thomson

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With the same style and insight he brought to his previous studies of American cinema, acclaimed critic David Thomson masterfully evokes the history of America's love affair with the movies and the tangled history of Hollywood in "The Whole Equation." Thomson takes us from D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and the first movies of mass appeal to Louis B. Mayer, who understood what movies meant to America-and reaped the profits. From Capra to Kidman and Hitchcock to Nicholson, Thomson examines the passion, vanity, calculation and gossip of Hollywood and the films it has given us. This one-volume history is a brilliant and illuminating overview of "the wonder in the dark"-and the staggering…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 420
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

David Thomson, author of“Have You Seen . . . ?”andThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film, is a regular contributor toThe Guardian,The Independent, The New York Times, Movieline, The New Republic,andSalon.He lives in San Francisco. From the Hardcover edition.




The Gamble and the Lost Rights



Mayer and Thalberg



The Place



To Be in an Audience



Charlie



By a Nose



The Man in the Hat ... A Woman in Gloves



Stroheim and Seeing Money



The Frenzy on the Wall



Respect



At the Paradise



The Factory



Viable Business



Golden?



Divorce, Hollywood Style



Our Town



The Darkness and the Light



In a Lonely Place



"What is Cinema?"



A Film We Can't Refuse



Right Before Your Eyes



That's All, Folks?


Notes on Sources


Acknowledgments


Index