The Film Snob*s Dictionary
An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge
$28.75
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
21 February 2006
Summary
From the same brain trust that brought you The Rock Snob’s Dictionary, the hilarious, bestselling guide to insider rock arcana, comes The Film Snob’s Dictionary, an informative and subversively funny A-to-Z reference guide to all that is held sacred by Film Snobs, those perverse creatures of the repertory cinema.
No longer must you suffer silently as some clerk in a “Tod Browning’s Freaks” T-shirt bombards you with baffling allusions to “wire-fu” pictures, “Todd-AO p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780767918763 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0767918762 |
| Author: | David Kamp, Lawrence Levi |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 21 February 2006 |
| Weight: | 142g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 124mm x 202mm |
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Critics Review
“A witty, often devastatingly funny, ultra-sophisticated guide for the uninitiated, the would-be cinephile’s equivalent to decrypting the Rosetta Stone. Even I had no idea that Clint Howard was a cult figure.” —Bruce Goldstein, Repertory Program Director, Film Forum (New York) and founder, Rialto Pictures
David Kamp
DAVID KAMP is a longtime writer for Vanity Fair, where short versions of The Film Snob*s Dictionary and the The Rock Snob*s Dictionary first appeared, and also contributes regularly to GQ.
LAWRENCE LEVI has written about films and film culture for The New York Times, The Nation, and many other publications, and was a colleague of Kamp’s at Spy, the much-missed satirical magazine. Both Kamp and Levi live in New York.
ROSS MacDONALD’s illustrations have graced many major periodicals, including The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. He lives in Connecticut.
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