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Top Ten Music & Film BooksNewest Review: ... films from America and parts of Europe made during that era. He also stretches the boundaries of the genre by including films like Apocalypse Now and Taxi Driver. And in spite of the fact that this all sounds potentially quite pretentious and annoying, it isn't at all. Kim Newman writes in a very accessible and entertaining way, and this is one of the few books that I enjoyed as a ... more |
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by - written on 20/11/01 (Very useful, 218 readings)
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Well, I've run out of ideas again, so it's time to do another top ten list. Ten books about music and film that are really good. Except that there's only one book about music in here, as I don't tend to read about it much, and most of the others are about horror films. The Aurum Encyclopaedias Edited by Phil Hardy. Bit of a cheat, this one, as it's actually four books. Each book covers one genre, and attempts to list, by year, every single film ever made in that genre. So far they've done The Western (the only one I don't own, although I did get it out of the library once), Science Fiction, Horror and Gangsters. I've no ... Read the complete review


