Big Screen The Story of the Movies

Name: Big Screen The Story of the Movies
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ISBN: 9780374534134

ISBN-10: 0374534136

ISBN-13: 9780374534134

Edition: 2012

Authors: David Thomson

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The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen as important as the images it carries. But The Big Screen is not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many media to tell the complex, gripping, paradoxical story of the movies. He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of life-the stories, the stars, the look-and how we allowed them to show us how to live. At the same…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.210
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