The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies

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―smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous―as important as the images it carries.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. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered fo...

By David Thomson
Hardcover: 608 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 16, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374191891
ISBN-13: 978-0374191894
Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1.8 x 9.4 inches
Amazon Rank: 190249
Format: PDF ePub TXT ebook

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The BIG SCREEN is one of the best critical histories of the motion picture arts I have read. Mr. Thomson loves his subject, but he is not in love with it. This is a history with warts and all. His concept includes all the visual arts from Eadweard

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