The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks write by Samantha Cook. This book was released on 2006. The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Rough Guide to Chick Flicks is a lively guide to the movies women love, from melodramas to biopics, thrillers to rom-coms. Sassy, informed and occasionally unexpected, it celebrates women's films of every kind. The history: Silent sirens, screwball dames, blonde bombshells, power dressers and indie chicks, The must-sees: The lowdown on 50 essential women's movies, from Breakfast At Tiffany's and Bend It Like Beckham to Pretty Woman and The Piano - with a fair few surprises thrown in, The faces: Heroines and heart-throbs from Audrey Hepburn to Julia Roberts, Cary Grant to Hugh Grant, not forgetting key writers, directors and custome designers, Chick lit and chick flicks: Tracing the relationship between the books and the movies, with juicy back stories about the best women writers from Louisa May Alcott to Virginia Woolf, Women of the world: Historical classics and contemporary hits from countries as different as Australia and Iran. Cover photo: Tara Morice in Strictly Balroom. Book jacket.
The Rough Guide to Film
The Rough Guide to Film - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rough Guide to Film write by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2008-05-01. The Rough Guide to Film available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Get the lowdown on the best fiction ever written. Over 230 of the world’s greatest novels are covered, from Quixote (1614) to Orhan Pamuk’s Snow (2002), with fascinating information about their plots and their authors – and suggestions for what to read next. The guide comes complete with recommendations of the best editions and translations for every genre from the most enticing crime and punishment to love, sex, heroes and anti-heroes, not to mention all the classics of comedy and satire, horror and mystery and many other literary genres. With feature boxes on experimental novels, female novelists, short reviews of interesting film and TV adaptations, and information on how the novel began, this guide will point you to all the classic literature you’ll ever need.
The Ultimate Guide To Chick Flicks
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The Rough Guide to Cult Movies
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The Rough Guide to Film Musicals
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