The big screen : the story of the movies
Record details
- ISBN: 0374191891 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780374191894 (alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
viii, 595 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Motion pictures Social aspects United States Motion pictures United States History |
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