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The big screen : the story of the movies
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"The Big Screen" tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertain...
"The Big Screen" tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence in the war years, and their long, slow decline to a form that is often richly entertaining but no longer lays claim to our lives the way it once did.
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- Creator
- David Thomson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012
- Physical Details
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- viii, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374191894, 0374191891
- OCLC
- ocn778422496
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Prologue: Let there be light -- Pt. 1: The shining light and the huddled masses : A cheap form of amusement ; The era of Sunrise ; The cinema of winter ; M ; State film, film state ; The extraordinary adventures of Mr. Bolshevik in the West ; 1930s Hollywood ; France ; Renoir ; American ; Ambersons ; Howard Hawks : the "Slim" years ; Films were started ; Brief encounter ; War ; Italian cinema ; Ingrid sees a movie ; Sing a noir song -- Pt. 2: Sunset and change -- Pt. 3: Film studies -- Pt. 4: Dread and desire : Dread and desire ; To own the summer ; Brave new northern California world ; What is a director? ; Silence of Sinatra? ; The numbers and the numbness -- Epilogue: I wake up screening