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Who is the Criterion Collection of books?

>> No.19791733

I don’t think there is an equivalent. Vintage for (very very) broad strokes. Dalkey or FSG classics maybe.

>> No.19791745

NYRB Classics

>> No.19791773

new directions

>> No.19792757

Taschen

>> No.19793732
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Wordsworth classics ofc

>> No.19793737

Releasing classic media but having an overall mediocre and bloated selection?

>> No.19793807

>>19793737
Now look here little bitch, the good people at Criterion work hard to restore, curate and add bonus features to the classics of cinema and make them available to a wider public.
Now I know their selection can be quite biased but I just hate gatekeeping two-bit critics like you tearing down the work of others without contributing anything to the table.
So either come back with some actual criticism or shut up.

>> No.19793839

Notes and introductions are kind of similar to high quality and the extras that criterion includes. Their recent habit of releasing things that are not really old or well known makes me lean towards Penguin over Oxford or other similar classics reprint lines.

>> No.19793859

>>19791672
Oxford.

>>19792757
Criterion has a mass appeal, while Taschen is less well known.

>> No.19793869

>>19791672
Ever since they started including genre writers, Library of America.

>> No.19793996

>>19793807
>restore
Some of their restorations are dreadful, DVDs are better option than their bluray (different color pallete, blue tint, etc).

>> No.19794384

Folio.

>> No.19794447

>>19793996
Can you think of any particularly bad restorations?

>> No.19794476

Broadview, of course.

>> No.19794920

>>19793732
that cover can't be real

>> No.19794923

Manesse Verlag

>> No.19794937

>>19791745

>For restoring obscure forgotten works
>>19791745

>For restoring the classics in excellent format
Everyman's Library

>>19794384
Too expensive and vastly depends on which text. Their version of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is based. Some of their others are like funko pops. No movie equivalent.

Shoutout to Vintage but the quality of their books or covers isn't anything to write home about.

>> No.19795095

>>19791672
Every publisher I can think of was better 80-50 years ago but if I had to choose one it would be Clarendon Press, namely Oxford Classical Texts.

>>19793859
If anything, it's the opposite. We have Taschens in department stores in Europe.

>> No.19795149

>>19793732
Gross

>>19794920
>not knowing about Wordsworth's covers
http://wordsworthclassics.com/collections/highlight/top-10-best-sellers

>> No.19795175

>>19794937
>Shoutout to Vintage but the quality of their books or covers isn't anything to write home about.
That's pretty much every book printed in the last 20 years. Publishers realized most people don't give a shit about good binding or materials and won't pay a premium for them.