TY - BOOK N2 - "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. AB - "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. T1 - The big screen :the story of the movies / DA - 2012. CY - New York : AU - Thomson, David, ET - 1st ed. CN - PN1993.5.U6 CN - PN1993.5.U6 PB - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, PP - New York : PY - 2012. ID - 455045 KW - Motion pictures KW - Motion pictures SN - 9780374191894 (alk. paper) SN - 0374191891 (alk. paper) TI - The big screen :the story of the movies / ER -