Summer Movies: 30 Sun-Drenched Classics

Turner Classic Movies presents a festival of sunshine classics--movies that capture the spirit of the most carefree season of the year--complete with behind-the-scenes stories, reviews, vacation inspiration, and a trove of photos.

Summer Movies is your guide to 30 sun-drenched classics that--through beach parties, road trips, outdoor sports, summer camp, or some intangible mood that brings the heat--manage to keep summer alive year-round. Packed with production details, stories from the set, and more than 150 color and black-and-white photos, the book takes an in-depth look at films from the silent era to the present that reflect the full range of how summer has been depicted on screen, both by Hollywood and by international filmmakers. Featured titles include Moon Over Miami (1941), State Fair (1945), Key Largo (1948), Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955), The Parent Trap (1961), The Endless Summer (1964), Jaws (1975), Caddyshack (1980), Dirty Dancing (1987), Do the Right Thing (1989), Moonrise Kingdom (2012), Call Me by Your Name (2017), and many more.

Author: John Malahy, Turner Classic Movies
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 06/01/2021
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 8.11h x 7.17w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9780762499298
ISBN10: 076249929X
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | Guides & Reviews
- Performing Arts | Film | Genres | Comedy
- Humor | Topic | Celebrity & Popular Culture

About the Author
John Malahy is a cinephile whose passion for film history has been instrumental in his career at Turner Classic Movies. Though an avid world traveler and summer movie enthu­siast, he has never been on a surfboard, but he hopes to someday. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Turner Classic Movies is the definitive resource for the greatest movies of all time. We entertain and enlighten to show how the entire spectrum of classic movies, movie history, and movie-making touches us all and influences how we think and live today.