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050 1 4 _aPN 1993.5
_bT482b 2012
082 0 0 _a791.430973
100 1 _aThomson, David,
_d1941-
_94291
245 1 4 _aThe big screen :
_bthe story of the movies /
_cDavid Thomson.
260 _aNew York :
_bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,
_c2012.
300 _aviii, 595 p., [16] leaves of plates :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: 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 or Sinatra? ; The numbers and the numbness -- Epilogue: I wake up screening.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aCine
_xHistoria
_zEstados Unidos
_9912
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aMotion pictures
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMotion pictures.
651 4 _aHollywood (Estados Unidos)
_xHistoria
_96959
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_cBK
946 _ilmm
999 _c113109
_d113109