Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts - Hardcover

Thomson, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679451153 ISBN 13: 9780679451150

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

Synopsis

Essays exploring Hollywood films, their stars, and their illusions discuss the nature of stardom and the preoccupations of life in Hollywood

About this title

About the Author:

David Thomson is the author of A Biographical Dictionary of Film (three editions), Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick, Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles and three works of fiction: Suspects, Silver Light and Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes. His writing has appeared in Film Comment, Movieline, Vanity Fair, The New Republic and Esquire, to which he contributes a monthly column on the movies. Thomson lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two sons.

From the Inside Flap:

ime David Thomson be generally recognized not just as one of our sharpest writers-on-film, but as one of our wisest and best writers, period."
--Film Comment

"The most obvious contender for the best film critic in the world."
--The Independent (London)
David Thomson is at his incomparable best in this stunning collection of essays on Hollywood films--their stars and the illusions they create. He explores a sort of twilight zone where film actors and the characters they play become part of our reality, as living beings and as ghosts, residing on or buried beneath Mulholland Drive, or wandering among us.

Like all of Thomson's writing on the movies, Beneath Mulholland is rich in its understanding of Hollywood, laced with irony, thoroughly provocative and brilliantly creative. There is also a steady fascination with love, sex, death, voyeurism, money and glory, all the preoccupations of Los Angeles--or of that movie L.A

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679451153
• ISBN 13: 9780679451150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268