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Marlene Dietrich by Marlene Dietrich
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $52.90Marlene 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: $22.24SciFier: $16.11From 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: $25.02SciFier: $18.33Film 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: $33.92SciFier: $32.65Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629336084Author Michael Gregg MichaudFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Impr -
The History of German Literature on Film by Christiane Schoenfeld (University of Limerick, Ireland)
SciFier: $43.08This 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: $27.80SciFier: $24.19From 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: $27.80SciFier: $22.39'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: $45.87SciFier: $38.13Shirley 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
RRP: $45.87SciFier: $45.16The 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: $172.36SciFier: $141.282016 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: $41.70SciFier: $31.11George 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: $69.50SciFier: $67.35Do 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: $40.31SciFier: $33.58In 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: $19.79Between 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... -
Fabulous Faces of Classic Hollywood by Robert Dance
RRP: $69.50SciFier: $50.03Fabulous 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... -
Rene Hubert: The Man Who Dressed Filmstars and Airplanes by Andres Janser
RRP: $55.60SciFier: $49.04From 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: $23.62SciFier: $17.01Christian 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... -
Romance Film by Norman Kagan
SciFier: $38.91Romance 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... -
Balenciaga by Lesley Ellis Miller
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $30.15Cristobal 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: $44.48SciFier: $42.13This 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... -
Icons of Style by Josh Sims
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $30.15Behind 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: $27.79SciFier: $22.73The 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... -
World Film Locations: Berlin Susan Ingram (York University, Canada) 9781841506319
SciFier: $34.19One of the most dynamic capital cities of the twenty-first century, Berlin also has one of the most tumultuous modern histories. A city that came of age, in many senses, with the cinema, it has been... -
Glamour by Stephen Gundle (Professor of Film and Television Studies, Warwick University)
SciFier: $35.42Glamour 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... -
Marilyn Monroe: The Biography Donald Spoto 9780099301110
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $17.94MARILYN 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: $123.00This 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... -
Billy Wilder by Robert Horton
RRP: $34.68SciFier: $27.05Always 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... -
Antigender Fashion: The Possibilities of Gender-Fluid and Non-Binary Fashion Design Judith Beyer (Formerly Massey University, New Zealand) 9781350466005
SciFier: $117.82An 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... -
Raoul Walsh by Marilyn Ann Moss
SciFier: $48.36Raoul 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... -
Master Space by Barbara Bowman
SciFier: $61.15This 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: $30.58SciFier: $21.36Kirk 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: $49.11How 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... -
High Society by Donald Spoto
SciFier: $18.53This biography draws on a series of unpublished interviews and offers a startling and intitmate portrait of one of the most glamourous icons of the 20th century.In just seven years (from 1950 through... -
Sternberg and Dietrich by James Phillips (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales)
RRP: $94.52SciFier: $93.56James 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: $76.45SciFier: $59.77George 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: $38.92SciFier: $34.85Taken 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: $44.47The 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: $40.30SciFier: $25.35Elizabeth 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: $26.40SciFier: $19.79James 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... -
Women I've Undressed by Orry-Kelly
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $27.48Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume design. He dressed all the biggest stars, from Bette Davis to Marilyn...