Big Screen The Story of the Movies

Name: Big Screen The Story of the Movies
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ISBN: 9780374191894

ISBN-10: 0374191891

ISBN-13: 9780374191894

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Thomson

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The Big Screentells 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.The Big Screenis not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered for a nickel to huddled masses sitting in the dark. But soon, and abruptly, movies began transforming our society and our perception of the world. David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 608
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English

David Thomson, author of“Have You Seen . . . ?”andThe New Biographical Dictionary of Film, is a regular contributor toThe Guardian,The Independent, The New York Times, Movieline, The New Republic,andSalon.He lives in San Francisco. From the Hardcover edition.



Prologue: 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 or Sinatra?


The Numbers and the Numbness


Epilogue: I Wake Up Screening


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index