Icons of Film: the 20th century

Illustrated history of cinema icons, spanning a hundred years of film from silent cinema to the present day. The book explores 84 selected films in depth to map the history of twentieth century American and European cinema; information given for each film includes awards, stars, storyline, characters and reception. Films selected are representative of particular genres, such as the western, the screwball comedy and science fiction films. Includes two introductory essays-- 'Raising the Curtain on the First Century of Film' and 'Douglas, Mary, Charlie and Friends or How it Started so Silently and then Learned to Talk' by Peter W. Engelmeier 'How "The End" Disappeared from the Cinema Screen' by Michael Althen concludes the book. Edited by Peter W. Engelmeier. Featured films: The Kid; Nosferatu; The Battleship Potemkin; Metropolis; The Blue Angel; 'M'; Top Hat; Modern Times; Bringing up Baby; Gone With the Wind; Ninotchka; Citizen Kane; Arsenic and Old Lace; Casablanca; To Be or Not To Be; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Children of Paradise; Gilda; The Third Man; Sunset Boulevard; A Streetcar Named Desire; High Noon; Singin' in the Rain; From Here to Eternity; La Strada (The Road); Rebel Without a Cause; Wild Strawberries; The Cranes are Flying; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; The Big Country; La Dolce Vita; A Bout de Souffle; Ben Hur; Some Like it Hot; Psycho; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Lawrence of Arabia; Goldfinger; The Fearless Vampire Killers; In the Heat of the Night; Le Samourai (The Godson); Bonnie and Clyde; 2001: A Space Odyssey; Once Upon a Time in the West; Easy Rider; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis; The Godfather; Cabaret; Day for Night; The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie; The Way We Were; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Taxi Driver; The Star Wars Trilogy; The Marriage of Maria Braun; Manhattan; The Tin Drum; Apocalypse Now; Gandhi; Blade Runner; Paris, Texas; Once Upon a Time in America; Out of Africa; Down by Law; The Last Emperor; Dead Poets Society; Rain Man; Pretty Woman; Do the Right Thing; Dances with Wolves; The Silence of the Lambs; Thelma & Louise; Schindler's List; Short Cuts; Forrest Gump; Pulp Fiction; The English Patient; Broken Silence; Titanic; Life is Beautiful; The Celebration; Shakespeare in Love; The Matrix; American Beauty.

Part of the Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection