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Book

The big screen : the story of the movies

Call Number

  • 791.43 T482.5 (CEN)

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Edition

1st ed.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2012.

Physical Description

viii, 595 p., [16] leaves of plates: ill., ; 24 cm.

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.

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