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Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades David Steinberg 9780813197562
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £22.72Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813197562Author David SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint -
Otto Preminger by Foster Hirsch
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £25.59Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813152905Author Foster HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint -
Ryan's Daughter: The Making of an Irish Epic Paul Benedict Rowan 9780813183664
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £18.04Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813183664Author Paul Benedict RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint -
City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures Bernard F. Dick 9780813153445
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.69Horror films. Deanna Durbin musicals. Francis the talking mule. Ma and Pa Kettle. Ross Hunter weepies. Theme parks. ET. Apollo 13. These are only a few of the many faces of Universal Pictures. In... -
The Shocking Miss Pilgrim by Frederica Sagor Maas
RRP: £48.50SciFier: £33.39" Freddie Maas's revealing memoir offers a unique perspective on the film industry and Hollywood culture in their early days and illuminates the plight of Hollywood writers working within the studio... -
Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder Gene D. Phillips 9780813125701
SciFier: £38.99One of the most accomplished writers and directors of classic Hollywood, Billy Wilder (1906--2002) directed numerous acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina (1954), The Seven Year... -
Engulfed by Bernard F. Dick
SciFier: £36.29From Double Indemnity to The Godfather, the stories behind some of the greatest films ever made pale beside the story of the studio that made them. In the golden age of Hollywood, Paramount was one... -
Hitchcock's Partner in Suspense by Charles Bennett
SciFier: £34.64With a career that spanned from the silent era to the 1990s, British screenwriter Charles Bennett (1899--1995) lived an extraordinary life. His experiences as an actor, director, playwright, film and... -
Conversations with Classic Film Stars: Interviews from Hollywood's Golden Era James Bawden 9780813174389
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £26.70James Bawden: Seeing the way people behave when they're around you, is it still fun being Cary Grant?Cary Grant: I don't like to disappoint people. Because he's a completely made-up character and I'm... -
Stroheim by Arthur Lennig
RRP: £32.00SciFier: £31.59Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957) was one of the giants in American film history. Stubborn, arrogant, and colorful, he saw himself as a cinema artist, which led to conflicts with producers and studio... -
Freedom of the Screen by Laura Wittern-Keller
RRP: £64.95SciFier: £39.44Between 1907 and 1980, many state and local governments empowered motion picture censor boards with the legal authority to keep any movie they considered obscene, indecent, or harmful from being... -
The Gray Ghost by Robert F. Schulkers
RRP: £26.95SciFier: £18.18Everyone thought Stoner's Boy was dead. Seckatary Hawkins and the other boys saw him take that terrible fall into the cliff cave abyss. But the masked marauder known as the Gray Ghost is back --... -
Hollywood Divided by Kevin Brianton
RRP: £48.50SciFier: £24.18On October 22, 1950, the Screen Directors Guild (SDG) gathered for a meeting at the opulent Beverly Hills Hotel. Among the group's leaders were some of the most powerful men in Hollywood -- John... -
All-Stars and Movie Stars by Ron Briley
RRP: £64.95SciFier: £42.29In addition to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, sports offer a versatile arena for discussion of class, race, gender, sexuality, and other social facets. All-Stars and Movie Stars:... -
Saul Bass by Jan-Christopher Horak
SciFier: £34.79Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the... -
My Life in Focus by Gianni Bozzacchi
RRP: £43.50SciFier: £34.68When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever. His ability to capture the beauty of... -
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre Stephen D. Youngkin 9780813123608
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £64.19Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung... -
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success Jon Krampner 9780813195957
SciFier: £51.76One of the most successful writers in Hollywood, Ernest Lehman penned some of the most iconic and memorable scenes to ever grace the silver screen. Hailed by Vanity Fair as "perhaps the greatest... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Paula Marantz Cohen
SciFier: £36.75This provocative study traces Alfred Hitchcock's long directorial career from Victorianism to postmodernism. Paula Cohen considers a sampling of Hitchcock's best films - Shadow of a Doubt, Rear... -
The Merchant Prince of Poverty Row by Bernard F. Dick
SciFier: £24.84Ben Hecht called him "White Fang," and director Charles Vidor took him to court for verbal abuse. The image of Harry Cohn as vulgarian is such a part of Hollywood lore that it is hard to believe... -
Columbia Pictures by Bernard F. Dick
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.95The recent $3.4 billion purchase of Columbia Pictures by Sony Corporation focused attention on a studio that had survived one of Hollywood's worst scandals under David Begelman, as well as ownership... -
The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen by Peter J. Bailey
SciFier: £29.35For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific -- or as paradoxical -- as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998) and Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Allen... -
The Marxist and the Movies by Larry Ceplair
RRP: £53.95SciFier: £27.76As part of its effort to rid the nation of Communist influence and infiltration, the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed hundreds of actors, screenwriters, producers, and directors with... -
Sidney Lumet by Frank R. Cunningham
SciFier: £41.43Since 1957, Sidney Lumet, the most prolific American director of his generation, has deepened audiences' awareness of social, ethical, and feminist issues through such distinguished films as 12... -
Strictly Dynamite by Eve Golden
SciFier: £37.88Before Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez-one of the first successful Latin-American Hollywood stars, who swept past the xenophobia of Old Hollywood to pave the way... -
Spookiest Stories Ever by Roberta Simpson Brown
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £21.98If tree branches scratching at your window on a stormy April night or the hot, sticky oppression of a stifling summer's day puts fear into your heart. Or rustling November leaves, and the chill that... -
Helen Morgan: The Original Torch Singer and Ziegfeld's Last Star Christopher S Connelly 9781985900585
SciFier: £69.01An emotive soprano, heartrending melodies about unrequited love, and a draped-over-the-piano persona made Helen Morgan (1902-1941) the original torch singer, but she was so much more. The versatile... -
Harry Langdon by Gabriella Oldham
RRP: £43.50SciFier: £37.99Among silent film comedians, three names stand out -- Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd -- but Harry Langdon indisputably deserves to sit among them as the fourth "king." In films such... -
The Philosophy of David Lynch by William J. Devlin
SciFier: £42.93From his cult classic television series Twin Peaks to his most recent film Inland Empire (2006), David Lynch is best known for his unorthodox narrative style. An award-winning director, producer,... -
They Made the Movies by James Bawden
SciFier: £37.88For decades, James Bawden and Ron Miller have established themselves as maestros of provocative interviews, giving fans unmatched insights into the lives of Hollywood A-listers. In their fourth... -
You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet by James Bawden
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £23.28Journalists James Bawden and Ron Miller spent their careers interviewing the greatest stars of Hollywood's golden age. They visited Lee Marvin at home and politely admired his fishing trophies,... -
Streaming by Wheeler Winston Dixon
SciFier: £19.75Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain -- albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones... -
Hollywood's White House by Peter C. Rollins
SciFier: £25.59" Winner of the 2003 Ray and Pat Browne Book Award, given by the Popular Culture Association The contributors to Hollywood's White House examine the historical accuracy of these presidential... -
Marie Dressler by Betty Lee
SciFier: £39.61" She was homely, overweight, and over the hill, but there was a time when Marie Dressler outdrew such cinema sex symbols as Garbo, Dietrich, and Harlow. To movie audiences suffering the hardships of... -
Stereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 Ray Zone 9780813124612
RRP: £31.50SciFier: £27.83Though it may come as a surprise to both cinema lovers and industry professionals who believe that 3-D film was born in the early 1950s, stereoscopic cinema actually began in 1838, more than 100... -
Hitchcock and the Censors John Billheimer 9780813180540
SciFier: £28.09Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to deal with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue violence, toilet humor, religious disrespect, and all... -
Raoul Walsh by Marilyn Ann Moss
SciFier: £35.99Raoul 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... -
Silent Players by Anthony Slide
RRP: £64.95SciFier: £56.59" From his unique perspective of friendship with many of the actors and actresses about whom he writes, silent film historian Anthony Slide creates vivid portraits of the careers and often eccentric... -
The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre Stephen D. Youngkin 9780813136066
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £34.39Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung... -
What Price Hollywood?: Gender and Sex in the Films of George Cukor Elyce Rae Helford 9780813179292
RRP: £60.00SciFier: £59.86During the early Hollywood sound era, studio director George Cukor produced nearly fifty films in as many years, famously winning theBest Director Oscar at the 1964 Academy Awards for My Fair Lady...