Silent Screens: The Decline and Transformation of the American Movie Theater

by Michael C.J. Putnam

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Starkly beautiful photos of abandoned and converted movie theaters -- with new essays by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs.

The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone. The well-dressed throng of moviegoers has vanished; the facades are boarded. In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801863295

ISBN13:9780801863295

Release Date:August 2000

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:128 Pages

Weight:1.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 10.2" x 8.8"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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