First published 2022
The filmmaker behind Once Upon a Time in Hollywood turns his attention to the American films that shaped him during the 1970s. Tarantino combines film criticism with personal memoir as he revisits the movies he watched as a young cinema enthusiast. His analysis moves between rigorous intellectual examination and passionate fan appreciation. The book operates simultaneously as film theory, cultural reporting, and autobiography. Tarantino brings his practitioner's insight to bear on the decade's key releases, offering perspectives available only to someone who both consumed these films as an audience member and later became a master filmmaker himself. The result delivers both scholarly rigor and infectious enthusiasm for cinema.
Genres: literary-criticism, 20th-century, american, autobiography, non-fiction, biography-memoir, 21st-century, film
Vibes: intimate, passionate, thought-provoking
Tropes: personal-memoir, practitioner-insight
Period: 1970s
391 pages · Hardcover · HarperCollins