The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies
by:
David Thomson (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B009LI61UU
Publish date: October 16th 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages no: 608
Edition language: English
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...
"the history of cinema, from its origins to the present, with hardly a female in sight" - bookslut