Description 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.
Born in London, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two sons..
Selznick, Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts, and three works of fiction.
His other books include Showman: The Life of David O.
He was the screenwriter on the award-winning documentary The Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind.
He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, and Salon.
About the Author David Thomson taught film studies at Dartmouth College and served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival.
This one-volume History is a brilliant and illuminating overview of "the wonder in the dark"-and the staggering impact Hollywood and its films has had on American culture.
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.
Mayer, who understood what movies meant to America-and reaped the profits.
Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and the first movies of mass appeal to Louis B.
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Thomson takes us from D.
Description 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
