{"product_id":"9780307271747","title":"The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Fifth Edition, Completely Updated and Expanded","description":"\u003cp\u003eDavid Thomson’s \u003ci\u003eNew Biographical Dictionary of Film \u003c\/i\u003etopped \u003ci\u003eSight \u0026amp; Sound\u003c\/i\u003e magazine’s 2010 poll of international critics and writers as the best film book of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow in its fifth edition, updated, and with more than 130 new entries—from Judd Apatow to Lena Horne—the classic, beloved film book is better than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor thirty-five years, David Thomson’s \u003ci\u003eBiographical Dictionary of Film\u003c\/i\u003e has been “fiendishly seductive” (Greil Marcus, \u003ci\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/i\u003e), “the finest reference book ever written about movies” (Graham Fuller, \u003ci\u003eInterview\u003c\/i\u003e), and “not only an indispensable book about cinema, but one of the most absurdly ambitious literary achievements of our time” (Geoff Dyer, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e). For this edition, Thomson has brought up to date and in some case recast the biographies, and has added new ones (Clive Owen, Scarlett Johansson, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Marion Cotillard, for example). The book now includes almost 1,500 entries, some of them just a pungent paragraph, some of them several thousand words long, every one a gem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is a great, rare book that encompasses the chaos of art, entertainment, money, vulgarity, and nonsense that we call the movies. Personal, opinionated, funny, daring, provocative, and passionate, it is the one book that every filmmaker and film buff must own, from the man David Hare called “the most stimulating and thoughtful film critic now writing.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024047882480,"sku":"9780307271747","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780307271747_p0.jpg?v=1763671631","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780307271747","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}