Michael Curtiz's Casablanca
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few films have captured the imagination of the world quite like Casablanca, and this landmark volume from The Film Classics Library presents the complete cinematic experience in stunning book form. Edited by Richard J. Anobile, this meticulously assembled work reconstructs Michael Curtiz's 1942 masterpiece through over 1,000 frame-by-frame photographs drawn directly from the film, accompanied by the complete screenplay dialogue, bringing Humphrey Bogart's iconic Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman's luminous Ilsa Lund back to life on the printed page. This volume stands as both a cinematic archive and a cultural monument, preserving one of Hollywood's Golden Age triumphs for readers and film enthusiasts alike. Anobile's Film Classics Library series was pioneering in its commitment to treating cinema as a legitimate art form worthy of serious scholarly and popular attention, and Casablanca represents the series at its finest. For those who have always believed that of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, no story compares — this is the definitive companion to a film that refuses to be forgotten.
Author: Richard J. Anobile
Format: Paperback
Genre: Movies & entertainment
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few films have captured the imagination of the world quite like Casablanca, and this landmark volume from The Film Classics Library presents the complete cinematic experience in stunning book form. Edited by Richard J. Anobile, this meticulously assembled work reconstructs Michael Curtiz's 1942 masterpiece through over 1,000 frame-by-frame photographs drawn directly from the film, accompanied by the complete screenplay dialogue, bringing Humphrey Bogart's iconic Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman's luminous Ilsa Lund back to life on the printed page. This volume stands as both a cinematic archive and a cultural monument, preserving one of Hollywood's Golden Age triumphs for readers and film enthusiasts alike. Anobile's Film Classics Library series was pioneering in its commitment to treating cinema as a legitimate art form worthy of serious scholarly and popular attention, and Casablanca represents the series at its finest. For those who have always believed that of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, no story compares — this is the definitive companion to a film that refuses to be forgotten.