Best.movie.year.ever. : how 1999 blew up the big screen /
"From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999--arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Simon and Schuster,
2019.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | "From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999--arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history"-- Fight Club. The Matrix. Office Space. Election. The Blair Witch Project. The Sixth Sense. Being John Malkovich. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. These are just some of the landmark titles released in a dizzying movie year, as a group of daring filmmakers and performers pushed cinema to new limits-- and took audiences along for the ride. Raftery provides a definitive account of 1999, a culture-conquering movie year none of us saw coming... and that we may never see again. -- adapted from jacket |
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| Item Description: | "Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover." |
| Physical Description: | xxvi, 387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1501175386 1501175394 9781501175381 9781501175398 |