Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

The big screen : the story of the movies / David Thomson.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.Description: viii, 595 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780374191894 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430973
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 T482b 2012
Contents:
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 or Sinatra? ; The numbers and the numbness -- Epilogue: I wake up screening.
Summary: "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.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 T482b 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000137083
Browsing Biblioteca Juan Bosch shelves, Shelving location: Humanidades (4to. Piso), Collection: Humanidades Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
PN 1993.5 T473f 1994 Film history : an introduction / PN 1993.5 T473f 2003 Film history : an introduction / PN 1993.5 T473f 2010 Film history : an introduction / PN 1993.5 T482b 2012 The big screen : the story of the movies / PN 1993.5 T482b 2013 The big screen : the story of the movies / PN 1993.5 T482h 2004 Hollywood / PN 1993.5 T482v 2008 La verdadera historia de Hollywood : [The whole equation] /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 or Sinatra? ; The numbers and the numbness -- Epilogue: I wake up screening.

"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.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.