Great Hollywood Movies

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The Little Tramp, shy but hopeful, smiles at the girl whose sight he helped to restore. Ari ardent Rhett Buller sweeps Scarlett OH ara ojf her feet and carries her up the stairs. Rick and Hsa part forever at the Casablanca airport. In a darkened roorn, the godfather and his loyal family plot ne-farions deeds.E.T. bids a sadfarewell to his earthlingfriends.
These are only a few of hundreds of unforgettable mo-ments írom the Hollywood movies that held us spellbound with their special magic.
Out of the thousands of movies produced by Hollywood from the silent era to the present, Ted Sennett has selected the ver)' best: the stories that made us laugh, cry, and gasp with wonder and delight, the films that made us think and even affected our lives. Combining a lively, informative text with almost 400 extraordinary illustrations (100 in glori-ous color), Great Hollywood Movies pays tribute to these memorable achievements.
Every genre of film is covered in these lavish pages, from... Tovább

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The Little Tramp, shy but hopeful, smiles at the girl whose sight he helped to restore. Ari ardent Rhett Buller sweeps Scarlett OH ara ojf her feet and carries her up the stairs. Rick and Hsa part forever at the Casablanca airport. In a darkened roorn, the godfather and his loyal family plot ne-farions deeds.E.T. bids a sadfarewell to his earthlingfriends.
These are only a few of hundreds of unforgettable mo-ments írom the Hollywood movies that held us spellbound with their special magic.
Out of the thousands of movies produced by Hollywood from the silent era to the present, Ted Sennett has selected the ver)' best: the stories that made us laugh, cry, and gasp with wonder and delight, the films that made us think and even affected our lives. Combining a lively, informative text with almost 400 extraordinary illustrations (100 in glori-ous color), Great Hollywood Movies pays tribute to these memorable achievements.
Every genre of film is covered in these lavish pages, from comedies that gave us the gift of laughter (Charlie Chaplin to Woody Allén) to crime movies that took us to the violent worlds of Little Caesar and Bonnié and Clyde. Here are the musicals with the stars that sang and danced their way into legend; adventure movies from Erről Flynn swashbucklers to Raiders of the Lost Ark; mystery movies (including, of course, the peak of Hitchcock)—plus the landmark films that changed the face of motion pictures, including The Birth of a Nation and Citizen Kane. Movie buffs will find all their favorites, old—The Gold Rush, King Kong, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, The Maltese Falcon, Singin in the Rain—and new—The Graduate, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cabaret, Star Wars—as well as a number of surprising and con-troversial choices.
Why have these films lasted? What makes them so special? Which were influential as well as popular? Which movies reflected the times in which they were made, and which set the trends? What is the current state of the art? These are somé of the questions considered by Ted Sennett as he gives virtually a mini-history of each genre and shows how it has changed since the cranking of the first camera. His highlights of the great movies will surely bring back many pleasurable memories.
Great Hollywood Movies is a compendium of marvelous moments, captured in words and pictures. No moviegoer will want to do without it. ín addition to the absorbing text and stunning illustrations, the selected bibliography and index make this book an important resource.
Ted Sennett, author of Abrams' best-selling Hollywood Musicals as well as other books on films and the performing arts, alsó acted as General Editor of the hugely popular 58-volume paperbound series Illustrated History of the Movies. Vissza