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"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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2 editions- Other · English · 2012Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 595 pages · 9780374191894
- Other · English · 2012Allen Lane · 595 pages · 9781846143144
Motion picturesHistoryNew York Times reviewedMotion pictures, social aspectsMotion pictures, historyMotion pictures, united statesSocial aspects