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Superhero Superstars: Tom Holland Martha London 9781644933701
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £21.31Tom Holland captivated audiences as Marvel's Spider-Man. With compelling images, fun facts, and an Inside Hollywood special feature, this book provides an engaging overview of Holland's life, acting... -
Frank Wisbar by Henry Nicolella
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81German director Frank Wisbar (1899-1967) had the misfortune of achieving success as a filmmaker just as Hitler came to power. While critics praised his work, Nazi cultural watchdogs were scornful of... -
Raoul Walsh by Marilyn Ann Moss
SciFier: £35.79Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood... -
Silent Players by Anthony Slide
RRP: £64.95SciFier: £56.39" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric... -
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre Stephen D. Youngkin 9780813136066
SciFier: £36.19Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung... -
Artifacts: Fascinating Facts about Art, Artists, and the Art World Phaidon Editors 9781838663155
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £10.00'Even a seasoned art history buff will find new things to discover in this book.' - Hyperallergic 'Fascinating facts and illuminating anecdotes.' - The Art Newspaper The perfect miscellany for every... -
Shades of Springsteen: Politics, Love, Sports, and Masculinity John Massaro 9781978816169
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £22.56One of the secrets to Bruce Springsteen's enduring popularity over the past fifty years is the way fans feel a deep personal connection to his work. Yet even as the connection often stays grounded in... -
The Magnificent Ambersons: A Reconstruction Robert L. Carringer 9780520078574
RRP: £53.00SciFier: £44.50Orson Welles considered The Magnificent Ambersons the crucial turning point in his career. He said, "They destroyed Ambersons and it destroyed me." In 1942, while Welles was away, RKO Studios... -
Confessions of a Video Vixen 20th Anniversary Edition by Karrine Steffans
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063440098Author Karrine SteffansFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins... -
Roger Corman: Interviews Constantine Nasr 9781617031663
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46Roger Corman (b. 1926) is known by many names-craftsman, artist, maverick, schlock-meister, mini-mogul, mentor, cheapskate, and King of the B's. Yet his commitment to filmmaking remains inspired. He... -
Alexander Payne: Interviews Julie Levinson 9781496810519
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Since 1996, Alexander Payne (b. 1961) has made six feature films and a short segment of an omnibus movie. Although his body of work is quantitatively small, it is qualitatively impressive. His movies... -
Errol Morris: Interviews Livia Bloom 9781604733723
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £72.95Errol Morris: Interviews is an irreverent and humorous collection of conversations with the acclaimed documentary filmmaker. Morris (b. 1948) has created some of America's most innovative, lasting... -
Dalton Trumbo: Blacklisted Hollywood Radical Larry Ceplair 9780813169736
RRP: £32.50SciFier: £32.19James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American... -
Lewis Milestone by Harlow Robinson
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.95This comprehensive biography is the first to present Lewis Milestone's remarkable life -- a classic rags-to-riches American narrative -- in full and explores his many acclaimed films from the silent... -
Baz Luhrmann: Interviews Tom Ryan 9781628461497
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £72.25Though he has made only five films in two decades--Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and the Oscar-nominated films Moulin Rouge!, Australia, and The Great Gatsby--Australian... -
William Wyler: Interviews Gabriel Miller 9781604732986
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46William Wyler (1902-1981) was one of the most honored and successful directors from Hollywood's golden age. One of the film industry's most influential artists, he received three Academy Awards,... -
Forever Young by Hayley Mills
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £4.90* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *What happens when a girl tries to grow up in a world where everyone wants her to remain a child?Hayley Mills's teenage decade in Hollywood produced some of the era's... -
Betrayal of the Mind by Celine Wagner
HumanoidsRRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.06A rare English-language work tracing the life and fate of noted surrealist Unica Zurn.ZURN, UNICA [zyrn ynika]. f. n. - b. 1916; in Berlin-Grunewald - 1. Born to a middleclass family, a young woman... -
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington George Stevens 9780813195247
SciFier: £52.65George Stevens Jr. grew up on movie sets. His grandmother, aunts, uncles, and other family members were all entertainers, but it was his father, director George Stevens Sr., who cast the longest... -
Robert Riskin by Ian Scott
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.96Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With... -
The Immortal Count by Arthur Lennig
RRP: £48.50SciFier: £29.16In the 1931 film Dracula, Bela Lugosi set the standard for horror film villainy. Though many actors have donned the cape since that first production, remnants of Hungarian-born Lugosi's portrayal... -
A Rose for Mrs. Miniver by Michael Troyan
RRP: £32.50SciFier: £28.73In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her... -
Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests Tom Shales 9780316295062
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82When first published to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Saturday Night Live, LIVE FROM NEW YORK was immediately proclaimed the best book ever produced on the landmark and legendary late-night... -
Knives & Spoons Luis J. Gomez 9798895651025
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £17.77Knives & Spoons is a raw, darkly funny, and deeply honest memoir chronicling the turbulent childhood of comedian and entrepreneur Luis J. Gomez. Beginning with the devastating loss of his father and... -
This Country by Navied Mahdavian
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £14.12A gorgeously illustrated debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a home in the remote American West, by New Yorker cartoonist Navied Madhavian. Before Navied Mahdavian moved from... -
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality Michael J Fox 9781472278500
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.21'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox... -
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No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality Michael J Fox 9781472278463 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £2.88'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The TimesThe entire world knows Michael J. Fox... -
Forever Mame by Bernard F. Dick
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £22.56When it comes to living life to its fullest, Rosalind Russell's character Auntie Mame is still the silver screen's exemplar. And Mame, the role Russell (1907-1976) will always be remembered for,... -
Ahead of the Game by Kevin J. Ryan
SciFier: £19.72Prepare to be inspired by the story of Delane Parnell, the unlikeliest of CEOs now leading a gaming empire at the center of the booming, multibillion-dollar esports industry.Delane Parnell is not... -
Brass Diva by Caryl Flinn
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.63Broadway star Ethel Merman's voice was a mesmerizing force and her vitality was legendary, yet the popular perception of "La Merm" as the irrepressible wonder falls far short of all that she was and... -
Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £21.57"I read Hawks on Hawks with passion. I am very happy that this book exists." -- Francois TruffautHoward Hawks (1896--1977) is often credited as being the most versatile of all of the great American... -
Neil Jordan by Carole Zucker
RRP: £42.50SciFier: £27.43These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the... -
John Waters by James Egan
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46The films of John Waters (b. 1946) are some of the most powerful send-ups of conventional film forms and expectations since Luis Bu-uel and Salvador Dali's Un Chien Andalou. In attempting to... -
Hal Ashby: Interviews Nick Dawson 9781604735659
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £19.46Hal Ashby (1929-1988) is considered to be the lost genius of the New Hollywood generation. While his name does not bear the familiarity of, say, Robert Altman or Martin Scorsese, his diverse films... -
Warren Oates by Susan A. Compo
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £33.99Though he never quite reached the lead actor status he worked so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928-1982) is known today as one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the... -
Art of the Graphic Memoir, The by Tom Hart
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.74#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignant and instructive guide for all aspiring graphic memoirists detailing the tenets of artistry and... -
The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War Carl Sciacchitano 9781982102937
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £22.19A brilliant graphic memoir debut, this is a loving son's exploration of his tumultuous relationship with his father, told through the lens of the Vietnam War and its lasting effects long after... -
Abraham Polonsky: Interviews Andrew Dickos 9781617036606
RRP: £33.95SciFier: £27.43Abraham Polonsky (1910-1999), screenwriter and filmmaker of the mid-twentieth-century Left, recognized his writerly mission to reveal the aspirations of his characters in a material society... -
Martin Scorsese by Peter Brunette
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46From the moment he captured the film world's attention with Mean Streets (1973), a portrait of life at the fringes of the Mob, it was clear that a dazzling cinematic talent had arrived on the scene... -
Claire Trevor by Derek Sculthorpe
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81As cute as lace pants..."" An alluring blonde with a uniquely seductive voice, Claire Trevor is chiefly remembered now for her many femme fatale roles in a series of iconic noirs such as Murder, My...