| Description |
303 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 35 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 293). |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Diversions -- The sound of laughter : great comedy movies -- What a glorious feeling : great musical movies -- Through the eyes of love: great romantic movies -- Lights! camera! action! -- Print the legend : great Western movies -- Caution to the winds : great adventure movies -- Battlegrounds : great war movies -- Strange worlds, distant worlds -- Mayhem in the dark : great movies of mystery and detection -- Creatures walk among us : great horror movies -- Anybody out there? : great science-fiction and fantasy movies -- Faces of a nation -- The way we are : great movies on American life -- Guilty parties : great crime movies -- The lower depths : great movies on society's outcasts -- Indelible images -- Out of the pages, beyond the footlights : books and plays into film -- One of a kind: movies that stand alone. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- Pictorial works.
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| ISBN |
0810909804: $50.00 (est.) |
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9780810909809 |
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