Beneath Mulholland Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts

Name: Beneath Mulholland Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts
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ISBN: 9780679772910

ISBN-10: 067977291X

ISBN-13: 9780679772910

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Authors: David Thomson

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"[Thomson is] one of the finest film critics in the English language." --philip lopate, the new york times book review If 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. Thomson 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…

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List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/24/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction


20 Things People Like to Forget about Hollywood


Beneath Mulholland


Educated Archie


Garbo at 75


The Lives of Stars


James Dean at 50


The Shortsighted Voyeur


Driving in a Back Projection


The Towne


Not Available for Interview


Perkins Cobb


Suspects


Big Bend Story


Gone Away


How People Die in Movies


Ask the Anaconda


Beyond Hara-Kiri


Follow the Money


The Technical Sense of Money


Happiness


The Blue in the Air