Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads

50 of Film's Most Evocative Objects - An Illustrated Journey

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by Scott Jordan Harris

Type

Studies

Subject

On Films > Objects in Films

Keywords

objects, film selection

Publishing date

2013

Publisher

Intellect Books

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 128 pages
8 ½ x 8 ½ inches (21.5 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-78320-040-5

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Book Presentation:
Dorothy’s ruby slippers. Michael Myers’s mask. Marilyn Monroe’s billowy white dress. Indiana Jones’s trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in, and, at long last, a book has come along that sorts and chronicles fifty of them.

Rosebud Sleds and Horses’ Heads presents incisive discussion of fifty of the most significant objects in cinema history and explores their importance within their films and within the popular imagination. With original full color illustrations, this book surveys objects from a range of genres, from the birth of cinema to the present day.

Curated and written by a prominent film critic who routinely writes for some of the leading publications in the English language, as well as broadcasts for the BBC, Rosebud Sleds and Horses’ Heads is the only book of its kind. With a fascinating, original, and instantly understandable concept, it will find grateful audiences in film buffs around the world.

Press Reviews:
"A wonderful book, as essential as it is entertaining."
Elizabeth Weitzman, film critic, New York Daily News

"A lovely, imaginative book… elegant, original, and lit with insights. A pleasure for everyone from film buffs to fans who want to know where to begin. Highly recommended."
Sarah Churchwell, BBC Review Show panelist

“A sparkling assessment of some of cinema’s most iconic inanimate stars.”
Robbie Collin, chief film critic, Daily Telegraph

“Rosebud Sleds and Horses’ Heads weds the sophisticated visual dreaminess of some great children’s books to the prose of an unusually smooth scholar. Scott Jordan Harris isn’t speaking for the objects. The objects are speaking through him.”
Wesley Morris, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic, Boston Globe

"All fifty objects contain lovely descriptions that read more like journal entries than ’movie trivia’, moving forward page after page one can almost see Harris as a kid during those chilly New Year’s Eves, dozing off slowly, imagining all the pleasures the movies would bring to him in years to come, like little Ralphie Parker from A Christmas Story dreaming of his precious Red Ryder bb gun."
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