The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies Thomson DavidPaperback
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies Thomson DavidPaperback The definitive story of the medium that defines our timesThe Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and…
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies Thomson DavidPaperback
The definitive story of the medium that defines our timesThe Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen as important as the images it carries.But The Big Screen is not another history of the movies. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many media to tell the complex, gripping, paradoxical story of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life.
At the same time, movies, offering a seductive escape from everyday reality and its responsibilities, have made it possible for He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of life--the stories, the stars, the look--and how we allowed them to show us how to live.
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