Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
By: David Bordwell
4.25
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable way…
Want to Read $ 3.99"Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse."-David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
"Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that new storrytelling strategy? I'm inclined to say there is no such source. Artists working in mass art forms find originality by revising schemas in circulation, or by revising ones that have fallen into disuse."-David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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2. The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
By: Raymond Chandler
4.19
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
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"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."-Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)
3. After the Quake
By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin
3.77
Format: 147 pages, Paperback
1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。そして2月、流木が燃える冬の海岸で、あるいは、小箱を携えた男が向かった釧路で、かえるくんが地底でみみずくんと闘う東京で、世界はしずかに共振をはじ… read more
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4. Mischief
By: Charlotte Armstrong
3.64
Format: 148 pages, Paperback
At the last minute Peter and Ruth Jones are forced to hire a babysitter, unaware that Nell Munro, t… read more
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5. Cassidy's Girl
By: David Goodis
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Format: 348 pages,
They say that a man needs a woman to go to hell with. Cassidy had two. One was Mildred, the wife wh… read more
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6. The New York Trilogy
By: Paul Auster , Art Spiegelman
4.36
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of … read more
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7. The Star Machine
By: Jeanine Basinger
3.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
From one of our leading film authorities, a rich, penetrating, amusing plum pudding of a book about… read more
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8. The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
By: Will Durant
4.50
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers--Plato, Aristotle,… read more
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9. The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
By: Cormac McCarthy
3.47
Format: 1 pages, Hardcover
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of langu… read more
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10. But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
By: Chuck Klosterman
4.06
Format: None pages, Hardcover
We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that c… read more
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11. The Blunderer
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She… read more
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By: Mark Twain , None
3.67
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Though known throughout the world for his fictional novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand Adventur… read more
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14. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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15. Laura
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4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious… read more
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16. David Goodis: Five Noir Novels of the 1940s and 50s
By: Robert Polito , David Goodis
4.11
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In 1997 The Library of America's Crime Novels: American Noirgathered, in two volumes, eleven classi… read more
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17. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
By: Cormac McCarthy
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Format: 592 pages,
All the Pretty Horsestells of young John Grady Cole, the last of a long line of Texas ranchers. Acr… read more
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18. Confess, Fletch (Fletch, #2)
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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20. Beast In View
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3.37
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4.13
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3.83
Format: 708 pages, Hardcover
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26. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
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The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more
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27. Hollywood: The Oral History
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The real story of Hollywood as told by such luminaries as Steven Spielberg, Frank Capra, Katharine … read more
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29. Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
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30. Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
By: David Bordwell
4.25
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
In the 1940s, American movies changed. Flashbacks began to be used in outrageous, unpredictable way… read more
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"Someone might ask, if the dynamic of innovation consists of schema and revision, where does true originality come from? Is there no single work we can point to as the ultimate source of this or that …"-David Bordwell, Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s Filmmakers Changed Movie Storytelling
