[audiobook] Forrest Gump Main Title (Feather Theme) (Sheet Music): Piano Solo by Alan Silvestri in Arts-Photography

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The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread; their remarkable influence over us; and the technology that made the screenmdash;smaller now; but ever more ubiquitousmdash;as important as the images it carries.The Big Screen 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 mediamdash;moving from Eadweard Muybridge to Steve Jobs; from Sunrise to I Love Lucy; from John Wayne to George Clooney; from television commercials to streaming videomdash;to tell the complex; gripping; paradoxical story of the movies. He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of lifemdash;the stories; the stars; the lookmdash;and how we allowed them to show us how to live. At the same time; movies; offering a seductive escape from everyday reality and its responsibilities; have made it possible for us to evade life altogether. The entranced audience has become a model for powerless and anxiety-ridden citizens trying to pursue happiness and dodge terror by sitting quietly in a dark room.Does the big screen take us out into the world; or merely mesmerize us? That is Thomsons question in this grand adventure of a book. Books about the movies are often aimed at film buffs; but this passionate and provocative feat of storytelling is vital to anyone trying to make sense of the age of screensmdash;the age that; more than ever; we are living in.