Cinema of Swords - by Lawrence Ellsworth (Hardcover)
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Highlights
- A combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers
- About the Author: Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film.
- 384 Pages
- Performing Arts, Film
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About the Book
A combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklersBook Synopsis
A combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers
Review Quotes
"Cinema of Swords is a trustworthy and indispensable reference guide that's also a wildly entertaining collection of essays, joyfully written by an author of remarkable wisdom, wit, and taste. But, be warned: these pages are filled with rabbit holes, and when you find yourself flipping through them to check on a single name or the title of a film, you might stumble in to a wonderland of adventures and swashbuckling cinematic gems. Side effects may include heroics, tragedy, torture, revenge, animated skeletal swordsmen, breathless chases, and daring escapes. Overuse may lead to double- or even triple-feature movie nights with friends. I recommend hot, buttered popcorn and Robin Hood Daffy as the opening cartoon short. Enjoy!"
"Cinema of Swords is an exhaustive, informative, thoroughly invigorating retrospective on motion pictures that contain swordfights. Author Ellsworth has brought humor and knowledge to the proceedings, and he knows his stuff. As a former college film history instructor myself, I was pleased to see some of my favorites included--and how could they not be? This bookhas it all!"
"Cinema of Swords is the adventure lover's guide to the streaming era. More than just an invaluable reference book, it's a browser's delight, with insightful, informative, and frequently laugh-out-loud entries on hundreds of swashbucklers, from Captain Blood to The Golden Voyage of Sinbad to Hawk the Slayer. It's a pleasure to read, and the one truly indispensable movie book of the last five years. Don't miss it."
About the Author
Lawrence Ellsworth is a writer, editor, and translator of historical fiction and an acknowledged expert on the history of swashbuckling in literature and film. In addition to his new translations of Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers cycle--which have brought contemporary English editions of these classics into print for the first time in over a century--he is the editor of The Big Book of Swashbuckling Adventure and author of historical adventure pieces for The Huffington Post and Literary Hub.
