TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thomson,David
TI  - The big screen: the story of the movies 
SN  - 9780374191894 (hbk.)
AV  - PN 1993.5 T482b 2012
U1  - 791.430973 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Cine
KW  - Historia
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Hollywood (Estados Unidos)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -