US Army handbook, 1939-1945 by George Forty

US Army handbook, 1939-1945 by George Forty

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 James Dean who survived the car crash and a post-Saturday Night Fever Tony Manero. We learn the 20 Things People Like to Forget About Hollywood (Number 3: You Are Their Playthings, Not the Other Way Around). And on every page of Beneath Mulholland, we are educated, entertained, and enlarged by a book as savvy and incisive as any Hollywood reportage and as lyrical as the best fiction.

Not just.one of our sharpest
writers-on-film, but.one of our
wisest and best writers, period.
--film comment

George Forty is the author of many books, including Germany at War inColor, Leakey s Luck, Japanese Army Handbook, and US Army Handbook. He served in the British Army for 32 years with the Royal Tank Regiment.

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ISBN 13	9780750910781
ISBN 10	075091078X
Titel	US Army handbook, 1939-1945
Autor	George Forty
Serie	Military Series
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	The History Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-11-30
Seitenanzahl	192
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