Ebert's Bigger Little Movie Glossary: A Greatly Expanded and Much Improved Compendium of Movie Clichés, Stereotypes, Obligatory Scenes, Hackneyed Formulas, ... Conventions, and Outdated Archetypes

An expanded glossary of movie clichés from the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic.

The popular film critic offers a compilation of witty and wise observations about the film lexicon, including “Fruit Cart,” a chase scene through an ethnic or foreign locale, or “The Non-Answering Pet,” referring to a dead pet in a horror movie.

© 2013 Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC (Ebook): 9780740792465

Release date

Ebook: 30 July 2013