Summary

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.

About the Author

John Malahy received a B.F.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University and an M.A. in Film and Media Studies from Emory University, where he wrote about films of the 1920s and their narrative connection to the First World War. His deep knowledge and passion for film led to a career at Turner Classic Movies, where he has worked for the past six years. 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.

Product Details

• With images
• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Performing Arts / Film & Video / Guides & Reviews