The big screen
Subtitle: the story of the movies--and what they have done to us
By: David Thomson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 595
ISBN-13: 9780374191894
Subjects: Motion pictures; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.