The big Screen : : the Story of the Movies

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Call Number: 791.43 Th
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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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 ; Stat 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 of Sinatra? ; The numbers and the numbness -- I wake up screaming.
"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.

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