| Authors: |
Thomson, David, 1941-
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- United States.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2012. |
| Description: |
viii, 595 p., [16] pages of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780374191894 0374191891 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents: |
Let there be light -- 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 -- Sunset and change -- Film studies -- 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 -- I wake up screaming. |
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| Summary: |
"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. |