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Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades David Steinberg 9780813197562
RRP: $64.01SciFier: $52.07Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813197562Author David SteinbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint University Press of... -
Otto Preminger by Foster Hirsch
RRP: $80.04SciFier: $57.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813152905Author Foster HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint University Press of... -
Ryan's Daughter: The Making of an Irish Epic Paul Benedict Rowan 9780813183664
RRP: $45.69SciFier: $40.51Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813183664Author Paul Benedict RowanFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint University Press of... -
Hitchcock and the Censors John Billheimer 9780813180540
SciFier: $64.37Throughout 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: $81.50Raoul 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: $148.74SciFier: $127.76" 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
SciFier: $82.42Often 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... -
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine John Fox 9780813101569
RRP: $61.72SciFier: $50.31John Fox Jr. published this great romantic novel of the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky and Virginia in 1908, and the book quickly became one of America's favorites. It has all the elements of a... -
My Place in the Sun: Life in the Golden Age of Hollywood and Washington George Stevens 9780813195247
SciFier: $119.33George Stevens Jr. grew up on movie sets. His grandmother, aunts, uncles, and other family members were all entertainers, but it was his father, director George Stevens Sr., who cast the longest... -
Robert Riskin by Ian Scott
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $54.87Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With... -
Designing Hollywood by Christian Esquevin
RRP: $103.05SciFier: $99.04Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted effort to attract a female audience by... -
The Immortal Count by Arthur Lennig
RRP: $111.07SciFier: $66.04In the 1931 film Dracula, Bela Lugosi set the standard for horror film villainy. Though many actors have donned the cape since that first production, remnants of Hungarian-born Lugosi's portrayal... -
Street with No Name: A History of the Classic American Film Noir Andrew Dickos 9780813142050
SciFier: $66.96A Choice Outstanding Academic TitleFlourishing in the United States during the 1940s and 50s, the bleak, violent genre of filmmaking known as film noir reflected the attitudes of writers and auteur... -
Ghosts across Kentucky by William Lynwood Montell
RRP: $41.22SciFier: $41.06"Lynwood Montell has collected ghost tales all over the state of Kentucky, from coal mining settlements to river landings, from highways to battlefields. He presents these suspense-filled stories... -
A Rose for Mrs. Miniver by Michael Troyan
RRP: $74.43SciFier: $64.94In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, her fairy-tale discovery in Hollywood, and her... -
Harry Langdon by Gabriella Oldham
RRP: $99.62SciFier: $86.08Among 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: $97.51From 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: $86.01For 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: $77.86SciFier: $53.17Journalists 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: $45.07Film 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: $58.69" 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: $89.97" 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: $80.15SciFier: $76.26Though 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... -
Juanita and the Frog Prince by Ed McClanahan
SciFier: $59.27A miscreant, misanthrope, and misfit, two-nosed Luther Jukes lands in jail for murdering a man who insulted his froglike facial features. As Luther schemes in his cell, "hoosegow scullery maid"... -
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories Yvette Lisa Ndlovu 9780813196978
SciFier: $83.04"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?"Questions like this sit between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage the nuance of African women's histories... -
Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories Yvette Lisa Ndlovu 9781985900639
RRP: $52.67SciFier: $36.85"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?"Questions like this lurk between the lines of this stunning collection of stories that engage with African women's histories, both... -
Ernest Lehman: The Sweet Smell of Success Jon Krampner 9780813195957
SciFier: $117.66One 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... -
The Philosophy of Tim Burton by Jennifer L. McMahon
SciFier: $81.96Director and producer Tim Burton impresses audiences with stunning visuals, sinister fantasy worlds, and characters whose personalities are strange and yet familiar. Drawing inspiration from sources... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Paula Marantz Cohen
SciFier: $83.49This 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: $56.33Ben 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: $57.25SciFier: $54.87The 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: $67.05For 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: $123.55SciFier: $60.91As 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: $94.60Since 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: $86.01Before 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: $52.67SciFier: $50.38If 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: $158.10An 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... -
City of Dreams: The Making and Remaking of Universal Pictures Bernard F. Dick 9780813153445
RRP: $57.25SciFier: $43.03Horror 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: $111.07SciFier: $75.55" 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: $88.37One 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...