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Cinema of swords : a history and guide to movies about knights, pirates, barbarians, and vikings (and samurai and musketeers and gladiators and outlaw heroes)

Title: Cinema of swords : a history and guide to movies about knights, pirates, barbarians, and vikings (and samurai and musketeers and gladiators and outlaw heroes) / Lawrence Ellsworth.
Author: Ellsworth, Lawrence
Publication: Essex, Connecticut : Applause, [2023]

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Description

ix, 371 pages : illustrations (black and white); 26 cm

Summary

"Cinema of Swords is a history, guide, and love letter to over four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and solves their problems with the point of a sword. Though swordplay thrives as a mainstay of current pop culture--whether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Wars--swashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous during Hollywood's classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the savage bursts of fantasy films in the '80s. With this huge cinematic backlist of classics now available online and on-demand, Cinema of Swords traces the roots and branches of this unruly genre, highlighting classics of the form and pointing fans toward thrilling new gems they never knew existed. With wry summaries and criticism from swordplay expert Lawrence Ellsworth, this comprehensive guidebook is perfect as a reference work or as a dazzling Hollywood history to be read end-to-end"--Amazon.com.

Subject

Genre/Form

Motion picture reviews.
Reviews.
Television program reviews.

Note

Includes indexes.

Contents

Alphabetical reviews -- Index by title -- Indexes by subject.

Call Number

MFL 23-4384

ISBN

9781493065622
1493065629

OCLC

1390424929

Author

Ellsworth, Lawrence, author.

Title

Cinema of swords : a history and guide to movies about knights, pirates, barbarians, and vikings (and samurai and musketeers and gladiators and outlaw heroes) / Lawrence Ellsworth.

Publisher

Essex, Connecticut : Applause, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Ellsworth, Lawrence. Cinema of swords Essex : Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2023 9781493065639 (DLC) 2022058004

Research Call Number

MFL 23-4384

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