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Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema
by
Gary Giddins
In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled away from the crowded theater to be home alone with classic cinema. Recounting the technological developments that films ...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
April 19th 2010
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 2010)
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Collection of previously published pieces by Giddins about classic cinema. The articles were pegged to a DVD release(s) so they are a little basic and introductory for people who already know the films being discussed. Still Giddins is a very perceptive critic and almost always has something interesting to say.
Still waiting for Giddins' second volume of his Bing Crosby biography.
Still waiting for Giddins' second volume of his Bing Crosby biography.
Lots of fun for people who enjoy old movies. This would make a good gift.
Giddins is best as a jazz writer but he writes about film well also.
How does this man have time to be a music critic and apparently see every movie in the history of cinema (and he seems to remember everything), not to mention his terrific writing
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