The big screen : the story of the movies / David Thomson.

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition
    • Abstract:
      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.
    • Content Notes:
      Let there be light -- 1. The shining light and the huddled masses. A cheap form of amusement ; The era of sunrise ; Cinema of winter ; M ; Stat film, film state ; 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 -- 2. Sunset and change -- 3. Film studies -- 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 -- I wake up screaming.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      1 4
    • ISBN:
      9780374191894 (alk. paper)
      0374191891 (alk. paper)
    • Accession Number:
      2012009140
    • Accession Number:
      778422496
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.534862