Posted on 18/12/04
Two cheers for Hollywood
The Whole Equation:A History of Hollywood.By David ThomsonKnopf, 405 pages, $39.95There seems little need to recommend this book, its author's name guaranteeing its interest, distinction and, above all, readability, a blessing in an age when so much serious writing on film has treated movies as fodder for the proliferation of abstruse theory. David Thomson has already made himself indispensable to film lovers with his massive New Biographical Dictionary of Film and his books on Orson Welles and David O. Selznick. Now he gives us another substantial work that is patently by someone who loves movies and has devoted much thought and tireless research to exploring the complex conditions of their making.
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