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

by Michael C.J. Putnam

Book Overview

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