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Silent screens : the decline and transformation of the American movie theater / Michael Putnam with an introductory essay by Robert Sklar ; commentaries by Larry McMurtry ... [et al.].
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA6846.U6 P885 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Putnam, Michael, 1937-
- Series:
- Creating the North American landscape
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture theaters--United States--History.
- Motion picture theaters.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 102 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm x 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Robert Sklar
- From Film flam / Larry McMurtry
- Old dreams / Peter Bogdanovich
- A remembrance / Andrew Sarris
- Demolitions noted
- The Pekin Theater
- A wake / Molly Haskell
- Conversions noted
- Silent screens in a new century / Chester H. Liebs
- From "Movie-going" / John Hollander.
- ISBN:
- 0801863295 (alk. paper)
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