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Cinema of Swords is a combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and deals with their problems at the point of a sword.

As much as swordplay seems a mainstay of current pop culturewhether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Warsswashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous through Hollywood's classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the efflorescence of fantasy films in the 80s. With a huge cinematic backlist of classics now available online and on-demand, Cinema of Swords traces the roots and branches of this unruly genre, highlighting the classics of the form and helping fans discover new gems they never knew existed. With wry summaries and criticism from swordplay expert Lawrence Ellsworth, this comprehensive guidebook is perfect a

Cinema of Swords

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      Publisher Applause
      Published 1/15/2023 12:06:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781493065622
      978-1493065622
      ISBN-10 1493065629

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      Book Synopsis

      Cinema of Swords is a combination history, handbook, and love letter to nearly four hundred movies and television shows featuring swashbucklers: knights, pirates, samurai, Vikings, gladiators, outlaw heroes like Zorro and Robin Hood, and anyone else who lives by the blade and deals with their problems at the point of a sword.

      As much as swordplay seems a mainstay of current pop culturewhether Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings or Star Warsswashbuckling was if anything even more ubiquitous through Hollywood's classic period, from its foundations in the Silent Era up through the efflorescence of fantasy films in the 80s. With a huge cinematic backlist of classics now available online and on-demand, Cinema of Swords traces the roots and branches of this unruly genre, highlighting the classics of the form and helping fans discover new gems they never knew existed. With wry summaries and criticism from swordplay expert Lawrence Ellsworth, this comprehensive guidebook is perfect a

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