Overlook Film Encyclopedia: the Gangster Film 1st Edition

by Phil Hardy (Editor)

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ISBN-13: 978-0879518813

ISBN-10: 0879518812

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Since the initial publication of the first three groundbreaking volumes -- "Horror," "Science Fiction," and "The Western" -- "The Overlook Film Encyclopedia" series has been deemed the most authoritative, stylish and compulsively readable film reference series ever. Hailed for the breadth and depth of their reviews and the excellence of hteir long-range vision of each genre, they are the essential film reference books.

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Wow! Phil Hardy has been editing encyclopedias devoted to various film genres for years, but this book on the gangster film is perhaps his most impressive. A companion piece to his Western, science fiction, and horror encyclopedias, this is an extraordinary treat for lovers of crime movies. An oversized book, it contains more than 500 pages on the genre, covering it year by year from the beginning of the sound era until today and, uncharacteristically for Hardy, concentrating half its focus on films from the '60s through the '90s. Hardy and his team have composed hundreds of words on each of more than 1,500 films, considering the rarities of the genre as seriously as the classics, and focusing on foreign as well as English-language films. This is a must for aficionados and novices, those who want to pore over its pages, and those who are looking for a great browse. Big black-and-white stills, 650 in all, illustrate every page of this wonderful, magnificently researched, and tremendously entertaining volume. This is easily one of the best film books of the late 1990s. --Raphael Shargel

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Phil Hardy is the editor of The Overlook Film Encyclopedia series and The Da Capo Guide to 20th-Century Popular Music and is the founding editor of "Music and Copyright," the Financial Times's newsletter about the international music business. He has taught film and organized seasons at the National Film Theatre in England and the Edinburgh International Film Festival. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: The Overlook Press; 1 edition (October 1, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0879518812
ISBN-13: 978-0879518813
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.6 x 11.9 inches
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Good, though poorly organized.

BySheckie Greenon February 6, 2003

Format: Hardcover

At once, this book is amazing in its scope but horribly frustrating in its approach. Unlike a conventional encyclopedia, this voluminous tome orders the films within by year rather than alphabetically. This system makes the book virtually useless when trying to find a particular film at a glance. Sure, there's always the index but that fails miserably when a reader has interest in a film with a foreign title. Translated titles are available in the index, but too many foreign films have multiple titles. To make things worse the index is bereft of directors, stars, or any other means of cross-referencing a movie with which the reader might not be fully familiar. This is a flawed and ultimately ineffective work. (ISBN: 0879518812)

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