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Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been kill

Details the different aspects of the "Alien" films - the different directors, the making of the films, the themes, the actors, and the tensions on the

A renowned movie critic on film’s treatment of one of mankind’s darkest behaviors: murder  “[Thomson’s] analysis of death in Hitchcock movies is gorge

Since 2012, hundreds have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, many have been killed, but some have

In this triumphant work David Thomson, one of film's greatest living experts and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, tells the enthrall

Published in 1984: This is a working text and guide to the context of treatises which have so far not played their full part in the study of the late

This work charts the life of a man who stilled the world with his performance in "Citizen Kane" in 1941. Orson Welles seemed to possess inhuman energy

The third novel in David Thomson's series inspired by movie genres - an enchanting yet haunting celebration of screwball romantic comedies....

Introduced by Seamus Heaney, The People of the Sea brings to life the legend of the mythical selchies, in beautiful, poetic prose

An enlightening guide to all the magical workings of watching film from 'a giant in the world of film criticism' (The Times).

A notable work by the doyen of writers about cinema

Woodbrook is a rare house that gives its name to a small, rural area in Ireland, not far from the old port of Sligo. He stayed for ten years. This

A history of Europe since Napoleon, covering the main topics of that period.

A deep—and darkly comic—dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world

Set on the eve of the financial crash of 2008, Barcelona Dreaming is made up of three stories that are linked by time and place, and also by the movin

Explores various paintings in the context of Van Goghs short but brilliant career, allying the works to his correspondence.