We'll Always Have Casablanca: The Life, Legend, and Afterlife of Hollywood's Most Beloved Movie

Front Cover
Faber & Faber, Oct 31, 2017 - Performing Arts - 352 pages

Casablanca is "not one movie," Umberto Eco once quipped, "it is 'movies'".

Released in 1942, the film won 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and featured unforgettable performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.
The book offers a rich account of the film's origins, the myths and realities behind its production, and the reasons it remains so revered today.

Through extensive research and interviews with film-makers, Noah Isenberg explores he ways in which the film continues to dazzle audiences and saturate popular culture 75 years after its release.

What people are saying - Write a review

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - hardlyhardy - LibraryThing

Film critic Roger Ebert said he regarded “Citizen Kane” as the best movie ever made but that Casablanca was the movie he liked best. Yet if “Casablanca” is the favorite of so many people over so many ... Read full review

LibraryThing Review

User Review  - ericlee - LibraryThing

This is the story of Casablanca — where the story came from, how the film was made, and its “afterlife” right up until a Facebook post by Elizabeth Warren on a recent New Year’s Eve, where she ... Read full review

Other editions - View all

About the author (2017)

Noah Isenberg is director of screen studies and professor of culture and media at the New School, the author of Edgar G. Ulmer and editor of Weimar Cinema, and the recipient of an NEH Public Scholar Award.

Bibliographic information