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Celebrated cinema means excellence.
Celebrated Cinema, the book, chronicles that excellence from the beginnings of cinema to the present day – a century snapshot of filmmaking that showcases annual selections that best represent artistic and technical merit in the film industry, comprising of: action, adventure, comedy, crime, drama, fantasy, historical, horror, musical, mystery, romance, science-fiction, thriller, war and Western genres.
Celebrated Cinema reviews all the greatest movies: from The Adventures of Robin Hood (considered action or adventure) to Seven Samurai or Lawrence of Arabia, from The Kid to Sideways, from Double Indemnity to City of God, from Greed to Roma, from Beauty and the Beast to The Beasts of the Southern Wild, from Battleship Potemkin to The Passion of Joan of Arc, from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Eraserhead, from Top Hat to West Side Story, from The Third Man to Mulholland Dr., from L’Atalante to Brokeback Mountain, from Metropolis to The Shape of Water, from M to Parasite, from All Quiet on the Western Front to The Hurt Locker, from The Searchers to Unforgiven. This superbly illustrated study surveys the directors, the stars, the special effects and the imagery that have made these genres fascinating, vigorous forms of contemporary world cinema.
100 films are discussed in the main text and later organized in a comprehensive genre classification section which will be a delight to all cinema goers. Throughout, the book is heavily illustrated with color and black-and-white stills, graphically evoking the world of celebrated cinema in all its excellence.
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