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Cinema of Swords
A Popular Guide to Movies about Knights, Pirates, Samurai, and Vikings (And Barbarians, Musketeers, Gladiators, and Outlaw Heroes)
By Lawrence Ellsworth
Welcome to the Cinema of Swords Substack! This series is a companion and expansion to my Cinema of Swords hardcover (Applause Books, 2023), which collects over 400 tasty mini-reviews of screen swashbucklers from the Silent Era through The Princess Bride.
However, this series has run its course for the time being, and is currently suspended. Watch for further announcements in the future.
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Author, editor, translator, and anthologist of historical adventure fiction, Lawrence Ellsworth is the author of Cinema of Swords, and is compiling an acclaimed series of new, contemporary translations of Alexandre Dumas's Musketeers novels.