Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover's Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves Thomas C. Foster
Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst
Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis
- Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
- Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
- Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
- Opsig når som helst
Murder and the Movies
- Af
- Med
- Forlag
How many acts of murder have each of us followed on a screen? What does that say about us? Do we remain law-abiding citizens who wouldn’t hurt a fly?
Film historian David Thomson, known for wit and subversiveness, leads us into this very delicate subject. While unpacking classics such as Seven, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Strangers on a Train, The Conformist, The Godfather, and The Shining, he offers a disconcerting sense of how the form of movies makes us accomplices in this sinister narrative process.
By turns seductive and astringent, very serious and suddenly hilarious, Murder and the Movies admits us into what Thomson calls "a warped triangle": the creator working out a compelling death; the killer doing his and her best; and the entranced spectator trying to cling to life and a proper sense of decency.
© 2020 Tantor Media (Lydbog): 9781705232767
Udgivelsesdato
Lydbog: 5. august 2020
Tags
Andre kan også lide...
- Superheroes, Movies, and the State: How the US Government Shapes Cinematic Universes Tom Secker
- The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C. Stewart
- Rock Me on the Water: 1974—The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics: 1974-The Year Los Angeles Transformed Movies, Music, Television and Politics Ronald Brownstein
- Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes Barnaby Phillips
- A Life in Movies: Stories from 50 years in Hollywood Irwin Winkler
- Robert Altman and the Elaboration of Hollywood Storytelling Mark Minett
- Frozen Empires: An Environmental History of the Antarctic Peninsula Adrian Howkins
- Hot Air Peter Stott
- Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain Ed Gillett
- Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia Gregg Mitman
- Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly Kenneth C. Davis
- Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam Emran Iqbal El-Badawi
- The Devil in the Gallery: How Scandal, Shock, and Rivalry Shaped the Art World Noah Charney
- The Way of the World Ron Suskind
- The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs Jed Z. Buchwald
- My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism Andrew Marr
- Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV Peter Biskind
- Cinema's Original Sin: D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film Culture Paul McEwan
- A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics Hadas Thier
- Recessional: The Death of Free Speech and the Cost of a Free Lunch David Mamet
- Windrush: 75 Years of Modern Britain Mike Phillips
- The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-made Landscape James Howard Kunstler
- Trumbo: A Biography of the Oscar-winning Screenwriter Who Broke the Hollywood Blacklist Bruce Cook
- The Sprawl: Reconsidering the Weird American Suburbs Jason Diamond
- Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism Philip J. Stern
- The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker David Remnick
- Grave New World: The End of Globalization, the Return of History Stephen D. King
- Arthur Miller: American Witness John Lahr
- The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism Steve Kornacki
- And the Sun Stood Still Dava Sobel
- The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age Jake S. Friedman
- The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade Benjamin Breen
- Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives Philip N. Howard
- The Year That Broke America Andrew Rice
- World War II: What We Know Now (That We Didn't Know Then) One Day University
- Waves Across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire Sujit Sivasundaram
- 1964 – The Greatest Year in the History of Japan: How the Tokyo Olympics Symbolized Japan’s Miraculous Rise from the Ashes Roy Tomizawa
- The Reporter's Notebook Dennis Bloodworth
- An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War Over Slavery, and the Refounding of America Matthew Stewart
- Make Russia Great Again: A Novel Christopher Buckley
- This is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain: The Collapse of Liberal Britain William Davies
- Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice Marc Lamont Hill
- Silent Invasion: The Untold Story of the Trump Administration, Covid-19, and Preventing the Next Pandemic Before It's Too Late Deborah Birx
- Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber
- Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement Fergus Bordewich
- Seven Pillars of Wisdom T. E. Lawrence
- Walking to Samarkand: The Great Silk Road from Persia to Central Asia Bernard Ollivier
- The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition Manisha Sinha
- How Dead Languages Work Coulter H. George
- Ben Hecht: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures Adina Hoffman
- Dance for Two: Selected Essays Alan Lightman
- The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey Dawn Anahid MacKeen
- The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages François-Xavier Fauvelle
- The Influenza Threat Scientific American
- Liberty's Dawn: A People's History of the Industrial Revolution Emma Griffin
- The Nether World George Gissing
- The Great Great Wall: Along the Borders of History from China to Mexico Ian Volner
- After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It Will Bunch
- The Columnist: Leaks, Lies, and Libel in Drew Pearson's Washington Donald A. Ritchie
- Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics Ross Douthat
- Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening Douglas Brinkley
- On Decline: Stagnation, Nostalgia, and Why Every Year is the Worst One Ever Andrew Potter
- The Flip Side of History: Strange News, Hard-to-Believe Headlines, and Other Curious Stories from History Steve Silverman
- A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman: A Memoir Lindy Elkins-Tanton
- The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language Peter Martin
- Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Green and Pleasant Land, and How to Take It Back Guy Shrubsole
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History James G. Clark
- The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel Meredith Bagby
- The File: Origins of the Munich Massacre San Charles Haddad
- The Twittering Machine Richard Seymour
- The Princeton Guide to Historical Research Zachary M. Schrag
- A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta Paul Theroux
- Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption Robert McCrum
- Anxiety: A Philosophical History Bettina Bergo
- The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock Edward White
- The Life of the Author: William Shakespeare Anna Beer
- The Mystery of Charles Dickens A.N. Wilson
- Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho Stephen Rebello
- The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America Beth Lew-Williams
- Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China Jin Xu
- A Short History of Police and Policing Clive Emsley
- Classical Mythology: The Basics 2nd Edition Richard Martin
- Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest: The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography Doug Macdougall
- The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History James M. Banner, Jr.
- The Rogue Republic: How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History William C. Davis
- Yale and Slavery: A History David W. Blight
- The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction Kenneth C. Davis
- The Problem with Lincoln Thomas J. DiLorenzo
- Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living John Kaag
- Kind of Blue: A Political Memoir Ken Clarke
- Plagues and Their Aftermath: How Societies Recover from Pandemics Brian Michael Jenkins
- Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British Empire Erik Linstrum
- A Companion to Steven Spielberg Nigel Morris
- Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President Ron Suskind
- Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist; Revised & Expanded Edition Phil Baker
- What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics O. Carter Snead
- Charles Darwin's Barnacle and David Bowie's Spider: How Scientific Names Celebrate Adventurers, Heroes, and Even a Few Scoundrels Stephen B. Heard, PhD
Vælg dit abonnement
Over 600.000 titler
Download og nyd titler offline
Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)
Det er nemt at opsige når som helst
Den mest populære
Premium
For dig som lytter og læser ofte.
1 konto
100 timer/måned
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Unlimited
For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.
1 konto
Ubegrænset adgang
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Family
For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.
2-6 konti
100 timer/måned pr. konto
Fri lytning til podcasts
Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto
Ingen binding
2 konti
179 kr. /månedFlex
For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.
1 konto
20 timer/måned
Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer
Eksklusivt indhold hver uge
Fri lytning til podcasts
Ingen binding
Sprog og region
Dansk
Danmark
