01839cam a2200265 4500 125379090 TxAuBib 20130111120000.0 120306s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012009140 9780374191894 alk. paper 0374191891 alk. paper TxAuBib Thomson, David, 1933- The big screen : the story of the movies / David Thomson. 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. viii, 595 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. 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 of Sinatra? ; The numbers and the numbness -- Epilogue: I wake up screaming. "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. 20130111. Motion pictures Social aspects United States. Motion pictures United States History.