cover image The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century

The Phantom Empire: Movies in the Mind of the Twentieth Century

Geoffrey O'Brien. W. W. Norton & Company, $12 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-393-31296-6

O'Brien examines the cultural and psychological effects of movie-watching over the past 100 years, analyzing a variety of genres within the medium. (May)