THOMSON, David

THOMSON, David
(1941-)
   UK writer long resident in the USA, best known for his nonfiction studies of film. His 2 novels of sf interest were also, in a sense, film studies. Suspects (1985) is a complex FABULATION, a portrait of a USA populated - or infiltrated - by a vast extended family of characters who, the premise argues, have featured at some point in their lives as protagonists in innumerable films noirs from the period of Hollywood's prime and dark innocence; at the black heart of the tale sitsthe sinister figure of George Bailey, the character portrayed by James Stewart in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In Warren Beatty: ALife and a Story (1987; vt Warren Beatty and Desert Eyes: A Life and a Story 1987 US), chapters which examine the eponymous actor's real life alternate with chapters of a NEAR FUTURE tale which dramatize the ideal life Beatty may be presumed to have indited upon the dream world of film.
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