We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie - Hardcover

Isenberg, Noah

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571313485 ISBN 13: 9780571313488

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2017

Synopsis

Casablanca is "not one movie," Umberto Eco once quipped, "it is 'movies'".

Released in 1942, the film won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and featured unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
The book offers a rich account of the film's origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today.

Through extensive research and interviews with film-makers, Noah Isenberg explores he ways in which the film continues to dazzle audiences and saturate popular culture 75 years after its release.

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Review:

Noah Isenberg's insightful analysis of the success of [Casablanca] fully justifies the book's subtitle 'The Life, Legend and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie'... [a] fascinating study., DVD Choice

[An] affectionate compendium of Casablanca lore... a highbrow fan scrapbook stuffed with facts and gossip, weighty critical opinions tucked alongside exuberant movie-mag trivia... It is, however, Casablanca's political urgency that ultimately fuels Isenberg's admiration. After all, it premiered just two weeks after its namesake city surrendered to general George Patton's US troops. "Perhaps the reason why Casablanca is now a classic, a cult and a legend," Bergman wrote, "is because it was concerned with our war."... [A] heartfelt book., The Sunday Times

[An] exuberant study of the phenomenon that is Casablanca., The Times

A devoted history of the film and its afterlife., New Statesman

Book Description:

The story of how Casablanca was made and how it became the most beloved of Hollywood movies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0571313485
• ISBN 13: 9780571313488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352