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| Author | Shea Serrano |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Arturo Torres |
| Country | United States |
| Series | "And Other Things" |
Release number | 2 |
| Subject | Movies |
| Genre | Illustrated essays |
| Publisher | Twelve |
Publication date | 2019 |
| Pages | 256 |
Movies (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated, written by Shea Serrano and illustrated by Arturo Torres, was published in October 2019. [1] [2] It became the duo's third consecutive number-one bestseller on The New York Times Best Seller list. [3] [4]
Movies (and Other Things) is Shea Serrano and Arturo Torres's third book together. It was published by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central at Hachette.
The 256-page book has 30 chapters on different movies. Each is illustrated by Torres and each poses a question to be answered in the essay.
Actor John Leguizamo contributed a preface and Don Cheadle wrote an afterword. [5]
In the Los Angeles Times , Jen Yamato wrote, "Each essay turns the pop culture whiz's voracious appetite for movies of the last several decades into jumping-off points for wider cultural conversations and curiosities." [6] In Esquire, Jack Holmes called it "a charming examination of industry tropes and his personal hobby-horses across all the movies he's watched—sometimes many times—since the '80s." [7]
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