Silent screens : the decline and transformation of the American movie theater / Michael Putnam, with an introductory essay by Robert Sklar.

Main entry:

Putnam, Michael, 1937-

Title & Author:

Silent screens : the decline and transformation of the American movie theater / Michael Putnam, with an introductory essay by Robert Sklar.

Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
©2000

Description:

xv, 102 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 25 cm

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Notes:
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.

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801863295 (alk. paper)
9780801863295 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Kino
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Motion picture theaters United States History.
Motion picture theaters
Bildband
Geschichte
Fotografie
Bioscopen.
Foto's.
Stummfilm USA Geschichte
Filmtheater USA Geschichte
Filmtheater
Photographie.
United States
USA

Form/genre:

History
Bildband
Aufsatzsammlung

Added entries:

Sklar, Robert, writer of introduction.
Creating the North American landscape.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 237920
Call No.: BIB 167770
Status: Available

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