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Books : The Hollywood Book of Love : From True Romance and Blushing Brides to Tawdry Trysts and Femme Fatales
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: The Hollywood Book of Love : From True Romance and Blushing Brides to Tawdry Trysts and Femme Fatales
See Larger Image 		The Hollywood Book of Love : From True Romance and Blushing Brides to Tawdry Trysts and Femme Fatales
by: James Robert Parish
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.436543
EAN: 9780071402804
ISBN: 0071402802
Label: McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: May 29, 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Sales Rank: 369701
Studio: McGraw-Hill



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An authoritative and humorous look at Hollywood's ever-changing take on love, romance, and marriage over the decades



From steamy silent classics like A Fool There Was to romantic musicals like Grease to epic schmaltz-fests like Titanic, Hollywood historian and bestselling author James Robert Parish provides a very personal (but quite factual) run-down on how the Hollywood dream factory has portrayed love, marriage, and divorce on the big screen. The Hollywood Book of Love reveals in an entertaining fashion how the attitudes and standards the audience absorbs from the movies influence their expectations in real-life relationships.



Writing with his trademark dry wit and rich knowledge of American movie history, Parish provides perceptive and amusing takes on 200 feature films and offers tantalizing sidebar factoids on everybody from Liz, Bette, and Bogie, to Julia Roberts, Ethan Hawke, and Nicole Kidman.





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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - YOU WILL LOVE THIS BOOK
THIS BOOK COVERS SOME ON SCREEN ROMANCES COVERING MANY MANY MOVIES. FROM GONE WITH THE WIND, LOVE STORY AND WHEN HARRY MET SALLY THIS BOOK IS FULL OF DIALOG, PLOT SUMMARY AND SOME GREAT FACTS ABOUT MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO APPEARED IN THESE CELLULOID CLASSICS. THIS IS A MUST FOR ALL ROMANCE FANS. BOTH HUMOROUS AND ENTERTAINING, VERY RECOMMENDED.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Irreverent guide to romantic movies
My copy of "The Hollywood Book of Love" has the subtitle "An Irreverent Guide to the Films that Raised Our Romantic Expectations." The line "From True Romance and Blushing Brides to Tawdry Trysts and Femme Fatales" appears on the back cover instead of on the front as the subtitle.

Actually, I prefer the irreverent guide subtitle because that seems to be Parish's main goal: to show how romantic movies from this (and previous) generations raised our romantic expectations to unrealistic levels. He provides highly entertaining examples of movies that create hopes for romance, sex, and love that cannot possibly be fulfilled in real life.

"The Hollywood Book of Love" works on many different levels. It provides a thorough guide book to romantic movies; it offers a behind-the-scenes look at many of the selected films; and it gives the reader some broad questions to consider about the ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Writer knows Hollywood Love
This book shows a wonderful depiction of all types of love in movies from all eras. It is an easy and fun read all the way through showing the loves and heartaches through the years in some of Hollywoods greatest stories.

A must have for any true romantic... whether it's the irony of love you enjoy or just want to remember the key love stories of old.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Enjoyable, compulsive read!
Parish has written dozens of books on American film, and his knowledge is vast. This book makes shrewd use of that knowledge, but lightens it with delightful flights of humor. This makes for a enjoyable, compulsive read. The background is there, but it's not delivered in a stuffy or academic way. For example, in his section on Love Story, Parish writes: "As you sniffle through this feature, bear in mind that these characters give shallowness new meaning. For example, our clean-cut hero asks over the soundtrack mourningfully, 'What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?' His brilliant reply includes that she was beautiful (certainly a matter of personal taste) and that 'she loved Mozart and Bach...and the Beatles.' That's the best he can come up with? Oh, brother!"



 

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