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Warners Wiseguys by Scott Allen Nollen
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £22.31As three of the most prominent actors of the early studio system, James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and Humphrey Bogart played an unparalleled role in the rise of the Warner Brothers Studio. These... -
Beverly Garland by Deborah Del Vecchio
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61Aptly named ""Television's First Lady"" by Walter Ames of the Los Angeles Times, actress Beverly Garland (1926-2008) is also regarded as a Western and science-fiction film icon. Beverly was TV's... -
Pulp Fiction to Film Noir by William Hare
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fascinating, often bizarre characters rather than the twists... -
Gestures of Love: Romancing Performance in Classical Hollywood Cinema Steven Rybin 9781438465524
SciFier: £25.79Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.Gestures of Love considers the viewer's enchantment with charismatic actors in film as the starting point... -
Encyclopedia of Film Noir by Geoff Mayer
SciFier: £83.99When viewers think of film noir, they often picture actors like Humphrey Bogart playing characters like Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, the film based on the book by Dashiell Hammett. Yet film noir... -
What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s Sean Griffin 9780813549637
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £97.75Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of... -
What Dreams Were Made Of: Movie Stars of the 1940s Sean Griffin 9780813549644
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £27.43Humphrey Bogart. Abbott and Costello. Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. John Wayne. Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. Images of these film icons conjure up a unique moment in cinema and history, one of... -
Hawks on Hawks by Joseph McBride
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £21.15"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... -
Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties Steve Cohan 9780253211279
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £17.05The fifties marks the moment when a heterosexual/homosexual dualism came to dominate U.S. culture's thinking about masculinity. The films of this era record how gender and sexuality did not easily... -
Britain's Forgotten Film Factory by Ed Harris
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.51The story of Isleworth Studios is essentially that of the British film industry from 1914 to 1952. Beginning with the first British Sherlock Holmes screen adaptation and ending with its Oscar-winning... -
Epic Fantasy Short Stories Philippa Semper 9781787556935
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.82George R.R. Martin drew on Tolkien, who was inspired by William Morris, Medieval epics, and Norse mythology. This new collection of epic fantasy tales explores the classic themes of good vs evil, the... -
Coming Back to a Theater Near You: A History of Hollywood Reissues, 1914-2014 Brian Hannan 9780786498130
RRP: £35.99SciFier: £32.13In the Silent Era, film reissues were a battle between rival studios-every Mary Pickford new release in 1914 was met with a Pickford re-release. For 50 years after the Silent Era, reissues were a... -
The Big Sleep by David Thomson (film critic and historian, San Francisco, USA)
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.64The Big Sleep: Marlowe and Vivian practising kissing; General Sternwood shivering in a hothouse full of orchids; a screenplay, co-written by Faulkner, famously mysterious and difficult to solve... -
Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America George Kouvaros 9780816647477
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35The 1961 film The Misfits saw the collaboration of director John Huston with playwright Arthur Miller and brought together on screen Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in what would be their final roles... -
An Open Book by John Huston
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.74In An Open Book , this veteran of five marriages, innumerable friendships, practical jokes, horses, love affairs, and intellectual obsessions tells his own story in his own way. It is direct,... -
Masters of Two Arts: Re-creation of European Literatures in Italian Cinema Carlo Testa 9780802084750
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £29.00The movie screen has been the forum for many star pairings: Bogart and Bacall, Tracy and Hepburn, and Fellini and Kafka. While this latter combination might seem slightly unexpected or improbable at... -
Film Noir. 100 All-Time Favorites Jurgen Muller 9783754404089
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £26.72Enter a world populated by private eyes, gangsters, psychopaths, and femmes fatales, where deception, lust, and betrayal run rampant. This film-by-film photography book on film noir and neo-noir... -
The Stars by Edgar Morin
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45Worshipped as heroes, treated as gods, movie stars are more than objects of admiration. A star's influence touches on every aspect of ordinary life, dictating taste in fashion, lifestyle, and desire... -
The Whole Equation by David Thomson
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46A book that sees Hollywood as an idea, a trick, a religion even that swept the world, a book that knows what the bosses did, and why and how, but which also feels the impact on the mass audiences in... -
Bette Davis by Peter McNally
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Bette Davis, whose career spanned almost 50 years and covered theatre, radio, TV and motion pictures, was at one time the first lady of the big screen. Working with such storied performers as... -
Joan Blondell by Matthew Kennedy
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £22.49Joan Blondell: A Life between Takes is the first major biography of the effervescent, scene-stealing actress (1906-1979) who conquered motion pictures, vaudeville, Broadway, summer stock, television,... -
Raoul Walsh by Marilyn Ann Moss
SciFier: £35.19Raoul 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... -
A Real American Character by Carl Rollyson
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £24.23Walter Brennan (1894-1974) was one of the greatest character actors in Hollywood history. He won three Academy Awards and became a national icon starring as Grandpa in The Real McCoys. He appeared in... -
On Screen Acting: An Introduction to the Art of Acting for the Screen Edward Dmytryk 9781138584372
SciFier: £40.26With On Screen Acting, director Edward Dmytryk and actress Jean Porter Dmytryk offer a lively dialogue between director and actress about the principles and practice of screen acting for film and... -
Truman Capote by Tison Pugh
RRP: £96.95SciFier: £84.49Truman Capote once remarked, "My primary thing is that I'm a prose writer. I don't think film is the greatest living thing"; nonetheless, his legacy is in many ways defined by his complex... -
World Film Locations: Paris by Marcelline Block
SciFier: £24.60'We'll always have Paris,' Humphrey Bogart assures Ingrid Bergman in the oft-quoted farewell scene from Casablanca in which Bogart's character, hard-hearted restaurateur Rick Blaine, bids former... -
Fredric March by Deborah Peterson
SciFier: £78.49Fredric March was one of the foremost actors America produced during the 20th century, holding the distinction of winning Best Actor Awards in two films and two Broadway plays. He consciously chose... -
The Creative Producer by James Curtis
SciFier: £77.99In 1938, Warner Brothers production chief Hal Wallis grudgingly described David Lewis-one of his six "supervisors" and a veteran of 15 feature films-to director Michael Curtiz: "That Lewis is a... -
A Guide to American Crime Films of the Forties and Fifties by Daniel Finn
SciFier: £68.49The only comprehensive guide to the crime films of the forties and fifties, this volume focuses on the major events that shaped and molded the genre: war, alienation, drugs, and organized crime. The... -
Police on Screen: Hollywood Cops, Detectives, Marshals and Rangers M. Ray Lott 9780786425778
SciFier: £22.59From the Roman Praetorian Guard to the English shire-reeve to the U.S. marshals, lawmen have a long and varied history. At first, such groups were often corrupt, guilty of advancing a political... -
Shoot the Rehearsal! by Rudy Behlmer
SciFier: £78.49Ridgeway (Reggie) Callow began his film career in the early 1930s and for four decades worked as an assistant director on some of the most memorable films in Hollywood history. In the early 1970s,... -
On Sunset Boulevard by Ed Sikov
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £23.86On Sunset Boulevard, originally published in 1998, describes the life of acclaimed filmmaker Billy Wilder (1906-2002), director of such classicsas Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Seven Year... -
Tough as Nails by Douglass K. Daniel
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £17.12Called "God's angry man" for his unyielding demands in pursuit of personal and artistic freedom, Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Brooks brought us some of the mid-twentieth century's most iconic... -
The Final Victim of the Blacklist by Gerald Horne
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Before he attained notoriety as Dean of the Hollywood Ten - the blacklisted screenwriters and directors persecuted because of their varying ties to the Communist Party - John Howard Lawson had become... -
The Last Quarry by Max Allan Collins
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.04Notorious hitman Quarry, star of the Cinemax series, comes out of retirement for one last assignment when a media mogul hires him to assassinate a beautiful young...librarian? Twists and sexy... -
Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter J. E. Smyth 9780231215282
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry's most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the... -
Mary C. McCall Jr.: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter J. E. Smyth 9780231215275
RRP: £100.00SciFier: £81.12A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industry's most powerful figures in the 1940s and early 1950s. She was elected the... -
Political Philosophy Comes to Rick's: Casablanca and American Civic Culture James F. Pontuso 9780739111130
SciFier: £44.99Casablanca is a movie about love and loss, virtue and vice, good and evil, duty and treachery, courage and weakness, friendship and hate. It is a story that ends well, but only because the main... -
The Looks of Love by Hal Rubenstein
SciFier: £29.83Hal Rubenstein, fashion authority, consultant, and author of the bestselling 100 Unforgettable Dresses, presents fifty of the most influential romantic moments in style from the 1930s to today, in... -
Movie Anecdotes by Peter Hay
SciFier: £35.34Hollywood, Walter Winchell quipped, is where they shoot too many movies and not enough actors. Always looking for an angle, always, scheming, always the scene of clashing egos, the movie industry is...