{"product_id":"the-whole-equation-a-history-of-hollywood-9780375701542","title":"The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood","description":"With the same style and insight he brought to his previous studies of American cinema, acclaimed critic David Thomson masterfully evokes the history of America's love affair with the movies and the tangled history of Hollywood in \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Equation\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomson takes us from D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and the first movies of mass appeal to Louis B. Mayer, who understood what movies meant to America-and reaped the profits. From Capra to Kidman and Hitchcock to Nicholson, Thomson examines the passion, vanity, calculation and gossip of Hollywood and the films it has given us. This one-volume history is a brilliant and illuminating overview of \"the wonder in the dark\"-and the staggering impact Hollywood and its films has had on American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Thomson taught film studies at Dartmouth College and served on the selection committee for the New York Film Festival. He is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Film Comment, Movieline, The New Republic, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSalon.\u003c\/i\u003e He was the screenwriter on the award-winning documentary \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Legend: Gone With the Wind. \u003c\/i\u003eHis other books include \u003ci\u003eShowman: The Life of David O. Selznick, Beneath Mulholland: Thoughts on Hollywood and Its Ghosts, \u003c\/i\u003eand three works of fiction. Born in London, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and their two sons.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323863535890,"sku":"9780375701542","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a8d4f96f-5ee0-4200-9657-07eda78dba32.jpg?v=1727661803","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-whole-equation-a-history-of-hollywood-9780375701542","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}