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Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380097
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Ruby Keeler by Nancy Marlow-Trump
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £16.01You're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star, Warner Baxter told Ruby Keeler, in the 1933 film ""42nd Street"". The actor's scripted words would prove prophetic. The film... -
Mae Murray by Michael G. Ankerich
RRP: £48.50SciFier: £37.59Mae Murray (1885--1965), popularly known as "the girl with the bee-stung lips," was a fiery presence in silent-era Hollywood. Renowned for her classic beauty and charismatic presence, she rocketed to... -
Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader Frank Krutnik 9780415235525
SciFier: £42.00Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as... -
Wallace Reid by E. J. Fleming
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £21.61For a decade Wallace Reid was the most recognised face in Hollywood, the most universally beloved actor in silent film. Today all that is widely remembered of ""Wally"" Reid is that he died in a... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781137381460
SciFier: £44.99Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
Garbo by Barry Paris
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £15.48The only complete biography of the screen legend-now in paperback for the first time!Greta Garbo (1905-1990) is as famous for her reclusiveness as for starring in such enduring classics as Flesh and... -
Yul Brynner: A Biography Michelangelo Capua 9780786424610
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.61Known as the bald cowboy in ""The Magnificent Seven"" and the sexy, charismatic male lead in ""The King and I"", Yul Brynner was a Hollywood paragon of masculinity. Beyond his distinctive appearance... -
Batman: One Bad Day: Clayface Collin Kelly 9781779520470
DC ComicsRRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24All Basil Karlo ever wanted to be was an actor...no...one of the greatest actors there's ever been. However, his life went off course when he became the shape-shifting monster known as Clayface. ... -
Violated Frames: Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli's Sexploits Victoria Ruetalo 9780520380080
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38When Armando Bo and Isabel Sarli began making sexploitation films together in 1956, they provoked audiences by featuring explicit nudity that would increasingly become more audacious, constantly... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781349479627
SciFier: £46.99Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163330
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £18.97The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood Sean Redmond 9780231163323
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood is a detailed aesthetic, Deleuzian, and phenomenological exploration of Japan's finest currently-working film director, performer, and celebrity. The... -
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces Linda Cheng 9781786542182
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £5.60Squid Game meets Wilder Girls in this debut sapphic supernatural thriller set in the glittering, cut-throat world of K-pop rivalry. A disgraced idol comes face-to-face with the demons of her past... -
Who Was Her Own Work of Art?: Frida Kahlo: An Official Who HQ Graphic Novel Terry Blas 9780593384657
RRP: £6.99SciFier: £5.48Explore Mexican painter Frida Kahlo's rise to stardom, as she travels from Mexico to New York City for her first-ever solo exhibition and sets the art world aflame. A story of independence,... -
Below the Grand Hotel by Cat Scully
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.46The Great Gatsby meets Hellraiser.Mabel Rose Dixon will do anything to become a Ziegfeld girl-including picking the pockets of the wealthy NYC elite to fund her way to stardom. When she picks the... -
Delivering Dreams by Geoffrey Macnab (journalist and critic, London, UK)
SciFier: £29.20Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews... -
BTS by Terry Newman
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.99Worldwide heart-throbs BTS exploded onto the internet in 2010 with their infectious tunes and youthful looks. As cheeky as the Beatles and as stylish as Rihanna, these electric, rapping, K-pop... -
The Little One (Quick Read 2012) Lynda La Plante 9780857209207
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £7.32An exclusive short story for World Book Day from bestselling author Lynda La Plante. This spooky tale will make you want to sleep with the light on. Barbara needs a story. A struggling journalist,... -
Van Heflin by Derek Sculthorpe
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21A versatile craftsman, actor Van Heflin was never concerned with popularity or comfortable with stardom. Lauded by his peers, Heflin won over moviegoers with his portrayal of resolute homesteader... -
The Mighty Onion and Guinea Pig Girl! by Mark Crilley
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.91In this hilarious illustrated novel about the chaos of the creative process, Pam and Eliot are back-and creating comics for their local newspaper this time! But when their careers start taking them... -
Martial Arts Ecology: Aesthetics, Philosophy and Cinematic Mediation Wayne Wong (Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield) 9781399527927
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £83.09What is martial arts cinema? While known for its dazzling action and emotional intensity, this book argues that martial arts cinema aspires to a deeper goal: cultivating tranquility amid conflict-a... -
Precocious Charms: Stars Performing Girlhood in Classical Hollywood Cinema Gaylyn Studlar 9780520274242
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09In Precocious Charms, Gaylyn Studlar examines how Hollywood presented female stars as young girls or girls on the verge of becoming women. Child stars are part of this study but so too are adult... -
MASH FAQ by Dale Sherman
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.87Here's the lowdown on the unforgettable show about the Forgotten War. EM*A*S*HE began as a novel written by a surgeon who had been in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War. After... -
Queer Cinema in Europe by Robin Griffiths
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £27.53This landmark collection draws together a number of accessible and insightful essays that explore, for the first time, an exciting new area of academic analysis and debate. Through case studies of... -
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film Mia Mask 9780252076190
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi... -
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Delivering Dreams: A Century of British Film Distribution Geoffrey MacNab 9781784534899 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £5.11Film Distributors are the unsung heroes of cinema. Without them, the film industry would grind to a halt. Drawing on the archives of the Film Distributors' Association (FDA), as well as on interviews... -
Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star Pauline Small 9781841502342
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of... -
More Please by Barry Humphries
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Discover the legendary life of the man behind the make-up and glasses, Barry Humphries'A literary masterpiece' SUNDAY TIMES___________Because Barry Humphries deliberately furnished would-be... -
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era William Knoedelseder 9781610398664
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from across... -
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film Mia Mask 9780252034220
RRP: £103.00SciFier: £82.51This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi... -
On Audrey Hepburn: An Opinionated Guide Steven Cohan (Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Dean's Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University) 9780197668283
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.35Why should Audrey Hepburn matter today? This lively and engaging book revises the contemporary view of Hepburn that sees her primarily as a fashion icon and style guru, frozen in images from... -
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... -
Ava Gardner by Karin J. Fowler
SciFier: £57.99This book contains a biography of one of the screen's most loved actresses whose career has spanned five decades. Her life's story is as dramatic and compelling as many of her famous roles. From her... -
Film: The Key Concepts Nitzan Ben-Shaul 9781845203665
SciFier: £24.49Film: The Key Concepts presents a coherent, clear and exciting overview of film theory for beginning readers. The book takes the reader through the often conflicting analyses that make up film... -
On the Calculation of Volume IV: 'Unquestionably one of the greatest works of 21st century literature so far.' Herald Solvej Balle 9780571397037
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.50Tara Selter is one of many.In a sprawling villa on the outskirts of Bremen, Tara Selter is starting to settle into a new kind of eighteenth of November. Her days with Henry, Ralf and Olga revolve... -
Lugosi: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Dracula Shadmi Koren 9781643375793
HumanoidsRRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.83The critically-acclaimed biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. "Poignant.... Shadmi smoothly blends characterization with chiaroscuro to... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch (Emeritus Professor, Emeritus Professor, Charles Sturt University) 9780190244613
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £33.49Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk... -
Real Sex Films: The New Intimacy and Risk in Cinema John Tulloch 9780190244606
RRP: £115.00SciFier: £101.49Real Sex Films explores one of the most controversial movements in international cinema through an innovative interdisciplinary combination of theories of globalization and embodiment. Risk... -
For the Love of Pleasure by Lauren Rabinovitz
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £23.99"One of the most readable books on early cinema I have ever encountered. . . . Rabinovitz ably brings together a wealth of information about the exciting era of social change that marked the...