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Variety Film Reviews

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Variety Film Reviews is the 24-volume hardcover reprint of feature film reviews by the weekly entertainment tabloid-size magazine Variety from 1907 to 1996. Film reviews continued to be published in the weekly magazine after the reprints were discontinued.

Original series

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From 1983 to 1985, Garland Publishing, was responsible for the first sixteen volumes of this series.[1] Garland is now wholly owned by Routledge, which has since been purchased by Taylor & Francis.[2] Their first 15 volumes consisted of review reprints. Their 16th volume is an alphabetical index of more than 50,000 titles. Perhaps 10% are alternate titles and original foreign titles, so 45,000 review reprints is a realistic estimate for the first 15 volumes.[original research?]

Bi-annual supplements

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The eight additional bi-annual volumes (for 1981–1996) have at least 15,000 additional reprinted film reviews, making an estimated total of 60,000 or more film reviews in the 24-volume series. Volume 18 has the title index for 1981–1984. Each subsequent volume includes its own title index.

Edition binding

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The 19 volumes published by Garland are bound in green (Variety's traditional color) cloth with gold stamping. Each book measures 31.2 cm. (12¼ inches) high by 24 cm. (9¼ inches) wide.

Subsequent publisher

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Garland's rights expired after publication of Volume 19, and publication rights were acquired by R.R. Bowker, then owned by Reed International, which also owned Variety. Bowker undertook a complete reprint of Volumes 1 through 19, changing the title page of each volume to reflect their own imprint, and changing the series name to Variety's Film Reviews.[3] The re-titled series was bound in brown Kivar, or a similar imitation leather binding material. Bowker published the original editions of Volumes 20 through 24 before discontinuing the series.

Alternate binding

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Some copies of Volumes 20 through 24 are bound in green cloth with gold stamping similar to the original Garland editions. Apparently Bowker allowed a distributor that bought the Garland inventory of Variety Film Reviews to bind post-1986 volumes to match the earlier books.

Volumes and years covered

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Variety Film Reviews
Volume Date Range Garland ISBN Bowker ISBN
1 1907–1920 978-0-8240-5200-3 978-0-8352-2779-7
2 1921–1925 978-0-8240-5201-0 978-0-8352-2780-3
3 1926–1929 978-0-8240-5202-7 978-0-8352-2781-0
4 1930–1933 978-0-8240-5203-4 978-0-8352-2782-7
5 1934–1937 978-0-8240-5204-1 978-0-8352-2783-4
6 1938–1942 978-0-8240-5205-8 978-0-8352-2784-1
7 1943–1948 978-0-8240-5206-5 978-0-8352-2785-8
8 1949–1953 978-0-8240-5207-2 978-0-8352-2786-5
9 1954–1958 978-0-8240-5208-9 978-0-8352-2787-2
10 1959–1963 978-0-8240-5209-6 978-0-8352-2789-6
11 1964–1967 978-0-8240-5210-2 978-0-8352-2790-2
12 1968–1970 978-0-8240-5211-9 978-0-8352-2792-6
13 1971–1974 978-0-8240-5212-6 978-0-8352-2793-3
14 1975–1977 978-0-8240-5213-3 978-0-8352-2794-0
15 1978–1980 978-0-8240-5214-0 978-0-8352-2795-7
16 Index 1907–1980 978-0-8240-5215-7 978-0-8352-2796-4
set Volumes 1–16 978-0-8240-5216-4
17 1981–1982 978-0-8240-5217-1 978-0-8352-2797-1
18 1983–1984 978-0-8240-5218-8 978-0-8352-2798-8
19 1985–1986 978-0-8240-5219-5 978-0-8352-2799-5
20 1987–1988 978-0-8352-2667-7
21 1989–1990 978-0-8352-3089-6
22 1991–1992 978-0-8352-3273-9
23 1993–1994 978-0-8352-3577-8
24 1995–1996 978-0-8352-3851-9

Other reprints of film reviews

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Variety is one of the three English-language periodicals with 10,000 or more film reviews reprinted in book form. The other two are

References

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  1. ^ "Variety film reviews 1907-1980 : a sixteen volume set, including an index to titles | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  2. ^ "Taylor &Francis Buys Routledge". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
  3. ^ "FEDLINK Services Directory: R.R. Bowker LLC". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-15.