Turner Classic Movies presents a festival of sunshine classics--movies
that capture the spirit of the most carefree season of the
year--complete with behind-the-scenes stories, reviews, vacation
inspiration, and a trove of photos.
Summer Movies is your guide to 30 sun-drenched classics that--through
beach parties, road trips, outdoor sports, summer camp, or some
intangible mood that brings the heat--manage to keep summer alive
year-round. Packed with production details, stories from the set, and
more than 150 color and black-and-white photos, the book takes an
in-depth look at films from the silent era to the present that reflect
the full range of how summer has been depicted on screen, both by
Hollywood and by international filmmakers. Featured titles include Moon
Over Miami (1941), State Fair (1945), Key Largo (1948), Monsieur
Hulot's Holiday (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955), The Parent Trap
(1961), The Endless Summer (1964), Jaws (1975), Caddyshack (1980),
Dirty Dancing (1987), Do the Right Thing (1989), Moonrise Kingdom
(2012), Call Me by Your Name (2017), and many more.