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Silent screens : the decline and transformation of the American movie theater
- Title
- Silent screens : the decline and transformation of the American movie theater / Michael Putnam, with an introductory essay by Robert Sklar.
- Author
- Putnam, Michael, 1937-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
- ©2000
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sklar, Robert
- Description
- xv, 102 pages : illustrations; 22 x 25 cm
- Summary
- "In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures the once prominent cinemas in decline and transformation. His photographs of abandoned movie houses and forlorn marquees are an elegy to this disappearing cultural icon. Introduced by Robert Sklar, the photographs are accompanied by original reminiscences on moviegoing by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs as well as excerpts from the works of poet John Hollander and writers Larry McMurtry and John Updike."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Creating the North American landscape
- Uniform Title
- Creating the North American landscape
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bildband
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Contents
- Introduction / Robert Sklar -- The Plates -- 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
- 9780801863295
- LCCN
- 99053226
- OCLC
- ocm42690127
- 42690127
- SCSB-1129416
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library