The Film Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledge

From the same brain trust that brought you The Rock Snob*s Dictionary, the hilarious, bestselling guide to insiderist rock arcana, comes The Film Snob*s Dictionary, an informative and subversively funny A-to-Z reference guide to all that is held sacred by Film Snobs, those perverse creatures of the repertory cinema. No longer must you suffer silently as some clerk in a "Tod Browning's Freaks" T-shirt bombards you with baffling allusions to "wire-fu" pictures, "Todd-AO process," and "Sam Raimi." By helping to close the knowledge gap between average moviegoers and incorrigible Snobs, the dictionary lets you in on hidden gems that film geeks have been hoarding (such as Douglas Sirk and Guy Maddin movies) while exposing the trash that Snobs inexplicably laud (e.g., most chop-socky films and Mexican wrestling pictures). Delightfully illustrated and handily organized in alphabetical order for quick reference, The Film Snob*s Dictionary is your fail-safe companion in the video store, the cineplex, or wherever insufferable Film Snobs congregate.

Author: David Kamp, Lawrence Levi
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780767918763

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 02/19/2006 pg. 20

About the Author
DAVID KAMP is a longtime writer for Vanity Fair, where short versions of The Film Snob*s Dictionary and the The Rock Snob*s Dictionary first appeared, and also contributes regularly to GQ. LAWRENCE LEVI has written about films and film culture for The New York Times, The Nation, and many other publications, and was a colleague of Kamp's at Spy, the much-missed satirical magazine. Both Kamp and Levi live in New York.

ROSS MacDONALD's illustrations have graced many major periodicals, including The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. He lives in Connecticut.