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Can I read The Big Screen : The Story of the Movies on EtoBox?
The Big Screen : The Story of the Movies by David Thomson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Big Screen : The Story of the Movies about?
<p><i>The Big Screen </i>tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important as the images it carries.<br><br><i>The Big Screen </i>is not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered for a nickel to huddled masses sitting in the dark. But soon, and abruptly, movies began transforming our societies and our perceptions of the world. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time, and across many media—moving from Eadweard Muybridge to Steve Jobs, from <i>Sunrise </i>to <i>I Love Lucy</i>, from John Wayne to George Clooney, from television commercials to streaming video—to tell the complex, gripping, paradoxical story of the movies. 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. At the same time, movies, offering a seductive escape from everyday reality
Who reads The Big Screen : The Story of the Movies?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Thomson
- Publisher
- Macmillan Digital
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781466827714
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Art, History, Arts
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (151 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14