The film classics, a long-term publishing project of the British Film Institute, launched in 1992, is a series of well-written and beautifully illustrated small books, each devoted to one great film of world cinema - a long and comprehensive essay on that film by a prominent critic, novelist, academic, or filmmaker. To date, the number of these book-length illustrated monographs numbers 50. They include Melvyn Bragg on The Seventh Seal, Richard Schickel on Double Indemnity, Camille Paglia on The Birds, and Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz.
This year, Fitzroy Dearborn will publish, in two volumes, all 50 volumes produced to date. Although 50 different critics have written on 50 different films, two ideas inform the series - that film in the 20th century was a very catholic art form, and that people's experience of film is equally diverse, that the choice of very different critics approaching very different films is the best way to suggest and demonstrate this diversity to readers.
Film Classics showcases the range of styles and approaches of contemporary film criticism and offers informed and very lively critiques of some of the most notable films of the world cinema.
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