Author: David Thomson

In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be,...

A Meteor of Intelligent SubstanceSomething was Missing in our Culture, and Here It IsLiberties is THE place to be. Liberties, a journal of Culture ...

From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colorful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinema...

A renowned movie critic on films treatment of one of mankinds darkest behaviors: murder  [Thomsons] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorgeo...

Noah Cross, Norma Desmond, Norman Bates, Harry Lime - these are a few of nearly a hundred names that inhabit the mind of the narrator as he starts ...

In just a few years, what used to be an immobile piece of living room furniture, which one had to sit in front of at appointed times in order to wa...

In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthr...

A deepand darkly comicdive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world  In this brilliant book,...

Behind the scenes at the legendary Warner Brothers film studio, where four immigrant brothers transformed themselves into the moguls and masters of...

The Idle Parent is Tom Hodgkinson's radical parenting remedy against stifled, mollycoddled children.Modern life is wrecking childhood. Why can't we...