Warning Shadows: Home Alone with Classic Cinema

by Gary Giddins

Book Overview

In his illuminating new work, Gary Giddins explores the evolution of film, from the first moving pictures and peepshows to the digital era of DVDs and online video-streaming. New technologies have changed our experience of cinema forever; we have peeled away from the crowded theater to be home alone with classic cinema. Recounting the technological developments that films have undergone, Warning Shadows travels through time and across genres to explore...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393337928
• ISBN13: 9780393337921
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"