Brand/Publisher: Arno Press book published in cooperation with Quadrangle Books, a New York Times company, issued as a substantial cream-cloth hardcover in a tan dust jacket with bold red, purple, and green title lettering and the NYT logo on the front and spine.
Title and author: The New York Times Film Reviews: A One-Volume Selection 1913–1970 by George Amberg, a stand-alone condensation of the seven-volume New York Times Film Reviews series that gathers landmark newspaper reviews into a single reference work.
Format and design: Thick English-language hardback volume in single-column layout, combining newly typeset introductory essays with facsimile reproductions of original New York Times review columns and clippings, using clear serif type, running heads, and generous margins on off-white pages.
Content and themes: Presents approximately 400 representative film reviews chosen from more than eighteen thousand published in the New York Times between 1913 and 1970, tracing the development of American and international cinema from early silents through the coming of sound, the studio era, postwar Hollywood, and the emergence of the "film generation," with attention to directors, stars, genres, and changing cultural attitudes toward the movies.
Structure and additional features: Contents include an opening section "Films in Newsprint" followed by chronological chapters such as "From the Birth of the Movies to 'The Birth of a Nation': Selected Reviews, 1913–1919," "The Roaring Twenties: Selected Reviews, 1920–1929," "A New Dimension: Sound: Selected Reviews, 1930–1939," "Hollywood: The Beginning of the End: Selected Reviews, 1940–1949," "Cinema vs. Television: Selected Reviews, 1950–1959," and "The Film Generation: Selected Reviews, 1960–1970," concluding with "Portraits of Stars" and a detailed film title index.
Publication details and identifiers: Introductory material and selection copyright 1971 by Arno Press Inc.; issued as an Arno Press book in cooperation with Quadrangle Books, Inc., New York; Library of Congress catalog card number 75-176229; ISBN: 8129-0233-5; manufactured in the United States of America.
Language and audience: Text entirely in English, a nonfiction film and cinema history reference intended for adult readers, film historians, scholars of movie and media studies, librarians, and collectors interested in classic New York Times film criticism and twentieth-century motion picture culture.