Description: condition info: Former library book with library stamps and stickers. Otherwise still a good gently used book. Dust cover good no rips.Product DescriptionTurner Classic Movies and film historian Richard Corliss present Mom in the Movies: The Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (and a Few You Love to Hate), the definitive, fully illustrated book that shares the many ways Hollywood has celebrated, vilified and otherwise memorialized dear old Mom.With a foreword written by Debbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher, and sidebar essays by Eva Marie Saint, Illeana Douglas, Jane Powell, Sam Robards, and Tippi Hedren, this book is packed with an incredible collection of photographs and film stills. Mom in the Movies makes a great gift for any mom—and for anyone with a mother who oughta be in pictures.Here, you will meet the Criminal Moms, like Shelley Winters in Bloody Mama, and the eccentric Showbiz Moms, including those from Gypsy and Postcards from the Edge. You’ll also find Great American Moms, as warm and nourishing as apple pie, in movies such as I Remember Mama and Places in the Heart, along with Surrogate Moms, like Ginger Rogers in Bachelor Mother, Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame, Dianne Wiest in Edward Scissorhands and Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side. And who can forget the baddest mothers of all? No book on movie moms would be complete without Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate.From the cozy All-American mom to the terrifying Mommie Dearest or the protective Sigourney Weaver in Aliens, when it comes to mothers on the silver screen, it takes all kinds. With Mom in the Movies, Richard Corliss and Turner Classic Movies bring those many moms vividly to life, in words and pictures.Review“Corliss takes an affectionate and illuminating look at the movie icon of the title. . . . Celebratory [and] nostalgic.” ― The Boston Globe"Both film students and regular movie fans alike will enjoy this definitive work." -- Rosellen Brewer ― Library Journal (starred review)About the AuthorTurner Classic Movies (TCM) is a Peabody Award-winning network that presents great films, uncut and commercial-free, from the largest film libraries in the world. Currently seen in more than 85 million homes, TCM is the foremost authority in classic films.Richard Corlissis an esteemed film expert. The former editor of Film Comment, he has been a movie critic for Time magazine since 1980.Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.Mom in the Movies
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EAN: 0884308545391
UPC: 884308545391
ISBN: 9781476738260
Book Title: Mom in the Movies : the Iconic Screen Mothers You Love (And A Few You Love to Hate)
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Topic: Film / General, Media Studies, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Performing Arts, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 41.9 Oz
Item Length: 10.9 in
Author: Richard Corliss, Inc. Turner Classic Movies
Item Width: 8.4 in
Format: Hardcover