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Marilyn by Norman Mailer
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.71'Genius' The New York TimesIn 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was... -
Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer
SciFier: £36.99Ancient Evenings, a dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel, recreates the long-lost civilisation of Ancient Egypt. Mailer breathes life into the figures of that era; the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh... -
The Gospel According To The Son by Norman Mailer
SciFier: £18.24For 2,000 years, the brief ministry of a young Nazarene preacher has remained the largest single determinant of Western civilisation's triumphs and disasters. In THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE SON,... -
Over the Edge: Movies, Madness, Gambling, and other Celestial Pleasures James Toback 9781648211331
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.50Robert Downey Jr., Warren Beatty, Mike Tyson, Rudolf Nureyev, Norman Mailer, Barry Levinson, David Begelman, Harvey Keitel, Robert DeNiro, Leonardo DeCaprio, Alec Baldwin, George Cukor, Quentin... -
D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews Keith Beattie 9781496857927
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £19.46This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925-2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made... -
JFK by Oliver Stone
SciFier: £17.68A documented screenplay of the Oliver Stone film complete with historical annotation with 340 research notes and 97 reactions and commentaries by Norman Mailer Tom Wicker Gerald R. Ford and many... -
Seeing the Beat Generation by Raj Chandarlapaty
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Beat generation writers dismantled mainstream America. They wrote under the influence of psychedelic drugs; they crossed and navigated multicultural boundaries and questioned the American dream; and... -
W. C. Fields from Burlesque and Vaudeville to Broadway: Becoming a Comedian A. Wertheim 9781349671441
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £34.21W. C. Fields was a virtuoso comedian, often called a comic genius, legendary iconoclast, and "Great Man," who brought so much laughter to millions while enduring so much anguish. This book explores... -
Annex Rich Larson 9780316416542
OrbitRRP: £13.99SciFier: £9.83At first it is a nightmare. When the invaders arrive, the world as they know it is destroyed. Their friends are kidnapped. Their families are changed.Then it is a dream. With no adults left to run... -
Tender Comrades by Patrick McGilligan
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £20.76More than sixty years ago, McCarthyism silenced Hollywood. In the pages of Tender Comrades, those who were suppressed, whose lives and careers were ruined, finally have their say. A unique collection... -
The Waste Land by Martin Rowson
RRP: £17.00SciFier: £11.84In Martin Rowson's "The Waste Land", private detective Chris Marlowe is tasked with getting to the bottom of the most impenetrable of all modernist mysteries: namely T. S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"... -
D. A. Pennebaker: Interviews Keith Beattie 9781628462029
RRP: £41.95SciFier: £33.75This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (b. 1925) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s to the present day, D. A... -
Easy Rider Lee Hill 9781805750291
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £10.69Lee Hill's meticulously-researched study of the 1969 cult road movie Easy Rider analyses both the circumstances surrounding the film's making and the social and cultural forces that found expression... -
W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen by Arthur Frank Wertheim
SciFier: £102.99This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at... -
The Modern Library by Carmen Callil
SciFier: £20.49For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best... -
Fragile Things Neil Gaiman 9780755334148
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £4.90Neil Gaiman's extraordinary Fragile Things, from the bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods, reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his... -
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RRP: £10.99SciFier: £2.69Neil Gaiman's extraordinary Fragile Things, from the bestselling author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane and American Gods, reveals one of the world's most gifted storytellers at the height of his... -
Rewriting Indie Cinema: Improvisation, Psychodrama, and the Screenplay J. J. Murphy 9780231191975
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Most films rely on a script developed in pre-production. Yet beginning in the 1950s and continuing through the recent mumblecore movement, key independent filmmakers have broken with the traditional... -
Pretend We're Dead by Annalee Newitz
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12In Pretend We're Dead, Annalee Newitz argues that the slimy zombies and gore-soaked murderers who have stormed through American film and literature over the past century embody the violent... -
New Jews: Race and American Jewish Identity in 21st-century Film David L. Reznik 9781612050720
SciFier: £38.53"New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly "new"...