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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen (2012)di Kage Baker, Kathleen Bartholomew (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A collection of reviews from Tor.com, covering sf movies from the silent era. Amusingly written, covers a time ignored by most except devoted cinephiles. She included info on where to find them (admittedly quite some time ago), which is good. Some of them sound fairly entertaining. ( ) If you think a book about silent horror and science fiction films would be boring. Baker, whom honestly I had never heard of despite her considerable accomplishments, pulls a neat trick by giving each film its due while also being incredibly funny from first review to last--which is made even more remarkable since the last was written hardly a month before her death from cancer. You'll be happy to find that many of these films are available in good versions on services such as Kanopy that you probably have access to through your library. This quick read is a real eye opener and a joy from start to finish. Don't miss it. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
From Metropolis to the pre-Technicolor Oz, take a fantastical journey through the wildest frontiers of the silent films of the silver screen.Ancient Rockets brings you the earliest (and cheesiest) special effects, the best and worst directors, the tour de forces and the utter trainwrecks. Forty-nine cinematic odysseys will take you on A Trip to the Moon and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, swinging upon jungle vines with Tarzan and into the terrifying laboratory of Dr. Frankenstein, from The Adventures of Prince Achmed all the way to Modern Times.These are the pinnacles and the pitfalls of scienc Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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