Don't waste a second of your valuable holiday time on another boring Christmas movie. In this merry and informative guide, film critic Alonso Duralde takes us on a tinsel-bedecked tour of the best-and worst-films of the Yuletide season. Whether you're looking for the classics, family favorites, holiday horror, seasonally themed crime epics, or the most wonderfully awful cinematic lumps of coal, Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas serves up delightful recommendations in prose as brisk as a winter sleighride. From White Christmas to Bad Santa, Eyes Wide Shut to Gremlins, you'll find a marvelously electic selection of holiday fare and a thorough breakdown of the many screen Scrooges, including Alistair Sim, Jim Carrey, and ...Tori Spelling? And get ready to encounter movies you may never have heard of, from the gritty noir Blast of SIlence (filmed in New York City over Christmas 1959 without a single permit), to the loony Santa Claus, a Mexican kiddie movie in which St. Nick teams up with Merlin to fight the devil! Fun facts abound-did you know the actor cast as Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life was also in the running to play mean old Mr. Potter?-making this a stocking stuffed with goodies you'll turn to every Christmas season.
This fully revised and updated edition includes all Christmas movies of note to have been released in the fifteen years since the first edition was published, as well as gems omitted from the first edition.
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Film & VideoTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Dedication
- Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER 1 With the Kids Jingle-Belling: Christmas Movies for Kids
- CHAPTER 2 Nestled All Snug in Their Beds: Movies for Grown-Ups
- CHAPTER 3 Like a Bowlful of Jelly: Christmas Comedies
- CHAPTER 4 A Blue, Blue, Blue Christmas: Holiday Tearjerkers
- CHAPTER 5 Putting the Heist Back in Christmas: Crime and Action Extravaganzas
- CHAPTER 6 There’ll Be Scary Ghost Stories: Holiday Horror
- CHAPTER 7 Scrooge-a-Palooza: “A Christmas Carol” on Film
- CHAPTER 8 Lumps of Coal in Your Cinema Stocking: The Worst Christmas (Movies) Ever
- CHAPTER 9 Just Like the Ones I Used to Know: Christmas Classics
- Index of Names
- Index of Titles
- Copyright
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