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Marlene Dietrich by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £38.30Marlene Dietrich never threw away anything. She kept her good-luck rag doll (it appeared with her in The Blue Angel and followed her to dressing tables on every movie set). She kept the letters she... -
Marlene Dietrich's ABC's by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: £16.00SciFier: £14.82From the wonderfully varied and witty mind of Marlene Dietrich comes an alphabetised collection of her most zany, honest, and heartfelt thoughts. Offering her take on a range of ideas, people, and... -
Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: £18.00SciFier: £16.64Film star. Cabaret sensation. Recording artist. Writer. Marlene Dietrich was nothing short of enchanting face=Calibri>- and remains so even today. In this book she chronicles her fabulous rise to... -
Marlene Dietrich: Between the Covers Michael Gregg Michaud 9781629336084
RRP: £24.40SciFier: £23.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629336084Author Michael Gregg MichaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher... -
The History of German Literature on Film by Christiane Schoenfeld (University of Limerick, Ireland)
SciFier: £30.99This book tells the story of German-language literature on film, beginning with pioneering motion picture adaptations of Faust in 1897 and early debates focused on high art as mass culture. It... -
1930s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook Charlotte Fiell 9781787398894
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.11From the turbulence of the 1930s emerged the Golden Age of Glamour. Framed by two world-changing events - the economic crash of 1929 and the outbreak of the Second World War - the 1930s saw new looks... -
1920s Fashion: The Definitive Sourcebook Charlotte Fiell 9781787398870
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £16.11'There isn't a more comprehensive source to Twenties fashion that I can think of ... An absolute must for anyone interested in Twenties fashion or art deco' Style High Club'A source of all the... -
Glamour in a Golden Age by Adrienne L. McLean
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £27.43Shirley Temple, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Norma Shearer, Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo, William Powell and... -
Movies and Methods, Volume 2 by Bill Nichols
SciFier: £37.76The original Movies and Methods volume (1976) captured the dynamic evolution of film theory and criticism into an important new discipline, incorporating methods from structuralism, semiotics, and... -
Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 Laura Horak 9780813574837
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £99.412016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association Long-listed for the 2017 Best Photography Book Award from the Kraszna-Krausz... -
George Hurrell's Hollywood by Mark A Vieira
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £22.38George Hurrell was called the "Rembrandt of Hollywood." Before his arrival, movie star portraits were "soft focus" and undistinguished, derivative of the Main Street USA portrait salon. Hurrell... -
Shot/Countershot by Lucy Fischer
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £46.08Do films made by women comprise a "counter-cinema" radically different from the dominant tradition? Feminist film critics contend that women filmmakers do present from a distinctive vision, or... -
Acting in the Cinema by James Naremore
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.16In this richly detailed study, James Naremore focuses on the work of film acting, showing what players contribute to movies. Ranging from the earliest short subjects of Charles Chaplin to the... -
Complicated Women by Mick LaSalle
SciFier: £14.24Between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality and led unapologetic careers. Before then, women on... -
Red Lipstick by Rachel Felder
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £18.26A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world's most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts,... -
Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood by Robert Dance
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £39.40Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood brings some of the greatest portraits taken by leading Hollywood portrait photographers during the motion picture industry's golden years of 1920 to 1960... -
Romance Film by Norman Kagan
SciFier: £27.99Romance Film is a critical history of significant romance films from Hollywood and abroad. Kagan discusses, among others, Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Marlon Brando in A... -
Rene Hubert: The Man Who Dressed Filmstars and Airplanes by Andres Janser
RRP: £40.00SciFier: £35.28From the 1920s to the 1960s, Rene Hubert (1895-1976) belonged to the creme de la creme of costume designers. He designed costumes for stars such as Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman, Marlon Brando,... -
Dior: Style Icon by Dan Jones
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24Christian Dior's era-defining designs and enduring legacy are captured here in more than 50 of the fashion house's most iconic pieces. Dior redefined what fashion looked like in the post-war age and... -
Balenciaga by Lesley Ellis Miller
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.69Cristobal Balenciaga (1895-1972) remains one of the most revered and enigmatic of fashion designers. Here, breathtaking illustrations reveal why he is renowned for exceptional tailoring, sculptural... -
Lewis Milestone by Harlow Robinson
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £30.44This 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... -
Cabaret FAQ by June Sawyers
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.84The book features chapters on Jean Ross and Christopher Isherwood a the real people behind the singular characters of Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw/Brian Roberts a and includes background... -
Glamour by Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University)
RRP: £22.49SciFier: £20.49Glamour is one of the most tantalizing and bewitching aspects of contemporary culture - but also one of the most elusive. The aura of celebrity, the style of the fashion world, the vanity of the... -
Icons of Style by Josh Sims
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £21.69Behind nearly every item in the modern wardrobe is a first of its kind - the definitive item, often designed by a single company or brand for specialist use, on which all subsequent versions have... -
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... -
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Donald Spoto 9780099301110
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.91MARILYN MONROE is the most celebrated and controversial female icon of the 20th century. At last, Donald Spoto has produced an acclaimed biography worthy of this extraordinary and unforgettable star... -
Queer Cinema in America by Aubrey Malone
SciFier: £88.49This reference helps readers navigate the perilous odyssey those of an LGBTQ orientation had to face in an age less enlightened than our own, when an attraction to members of the same gender could... -
Antigender Fashion: The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design Judith Beyer (Formerly Massey University, New Zealand) 9781350466005
SciFier: £84.76An open access book, Antigender Fashion is a rich examination of gender fluidity in contemporary fashion design, Judith Beyer develops an emerging new theoretical framework for understanding how... -
Billy Wilder by Robert Horton
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46Always daring Hollywood censors' limits on content, Billy Wilder directed greats such as Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, and Gary Cooper... -
Raoul Walsh by Marilyn Ann Moss
SciFier: £34.99Raoul 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... -
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams Florence Muller 9780500021545
SciFier: £68.34Original catalogue to the Paris exhibition and a core part of the blockbuster retrospective at the V&A. It was in 1947 that Christian Dior presented his first collection and heralded the birth of a... -
Master Space by Barbara Bowman
SciFier: £43.99This is a unique study of the use of cinematic space by four important directors in American cinema from the 1930s to the 1960s: Frank Capra, Ernst Lubitsch, Josef von Sternberg, and William Wyler... -
Kirk and Anne by Kirk Douglas
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.37Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood is the story of film legend and charismatic centenarian Kirk Douglas and his wife of sixty-two years, Anne Buydens. The lessons... -
From Sleepwear to Sportswear: How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's Fashion Janine D'Agati 9781350231924
SciFier: £35.33How did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early... -
Sternberg and Dietrich by James Phillips (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales)
RRP: £68.00SciFier: £49.99James Phillips's Sternberg and Dietrich: The Phenomenology of Spectacle reappraises the cinematic collaboration between the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg (1894-1969) and the... -
George Hurrell's Hollywood by Sharon Stone
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £43.00George Hurrell (1904-1992) was the creator of the Hollywood glamour portrait, the maverick artist who captured movie stars of the most exalted era in Hollywood history with bold contrast and... -
Weimar Cinema by Noah Isenberg (Book Review Editor, Film Quarterly)
RRP: £28.00SciFier: £24.93Taken as a whole, the sixteen remarkable films discussed in this provocative new volume of essays represent the brilliant creativity that flourished in the name of German cinema between the wars... -
Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash Dr. Hilaria Loyo (former Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, Spain) 9781501388163
SciFier: £31.99The financial collapse of 2008 extended and deepened a prolonged, multilayered crisis that has transformed, often in unexpected ways, how we think about all aspects of social life. Amid these... -
Virtuoso: Film Performance and the Actor's Magic Professor Murray Pomerance (Independent scholar, Canada) 9781501350672
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £18.24Elizabeth Taylor's electrifying performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The milkshake scene in There Will be Blood. Leonardo DiCaprio's turn as Arnie in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? What makes... -
Paris To Die For Maxine Kenneth 9780446567411
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24James Bond meets Charade in this glamorous spy novel about Jackie Kennedy's fictitious adventures as an unofficial CIA agent in Paris in 1951, when she was 21-year-old Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. It is...