cover image Icons of Film: The 20th Century

Icons of Film: The 20th Century

. Prestel Publishing, $35 (191pp) ISBN 978-3-7913-2394-7

Film historian Peter W. Engelmeier (Fashion in Film) celebrates a select few in Icons of Film: The 20th Century, a dramatically illustrated tome (with more than 300 color and black-and-white photos) on 84 films most of them blockbusters with broad appeal (High Noon, Apocalypse Now, From Here to Eternity, Titanic) and a few distinguished movies favored by sophisticated film buffs (Nosferatu, Broken Silence, A bout de souffle). Arranged chronologically (from The Kid to American Beauty), Engelmeier's selections represent, he believes, the breadth and best of cinema from silent films to talkies, from westerns to dramatic epics and science fiction. ( Feb.)