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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (and What We Saw in Them) - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies (and What We Saw in Them)
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781846143144 (1846143144)
Publisher: Allen Lane
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Media Tie In, Movies, Culture, Film, Cultural Studies
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MEslaymaker
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A kind of Western Civ text on film, and I’d love to take a course taught by Thomson and based on this book. It just made my “favorite reads of 2012” list.Not that this reads like a textbook. It’s more fun than that, though Thomson has been, and maybe still is, a professor of film studies at Dartmout...
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Kaethe
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0.0 The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies--and What They Have Done to Us
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"the history of cinema, from its origins to the present, with hardly a female in sight" - bookslut
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies--and What They Have Done to Us - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us - David Thomson
The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies - David Thomson
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