Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

USA 2006, 449 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Paramount groomed him to replace James Dean and become Hollywood's hottest hertthrob. But his landmark performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's »Psycho« killed that - and spawned an image of Anthony »Tony« Perkins that eerily paralleled his conflicted, fractured off-screen life. These performances overwhelmed Perkins's career - increasingly during the decades leading up to his death from AIDS at ... Weiterlesen

Jenny Olson (R): Homo Promo

UK 2006, engl. OF, 90 min., € 29.99
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This collection of vintage queer movie trailers offers a crash course in lesbian, gay, bi and transgender movie history. The DVD collection catalogues virtually every mainstream queer-themed film produced between 1953 and 1977. It starts with the famous underground smash »Glen or Glenda (I Changed My Sex)«, progressing through to »The Boys in the Band«, and ending with the drag ... Weiterlesen

Charlotte Chandler: Bette Davis

USA 2006, 348 pp., hardback, € 24.89
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Bette Davis was a major force in Hollywood. Her distinctive voice, her remarkable eyes, her astonishing range and depth of caharcterization were qualities to make her one of the finest performers in film history. Drawing on extensive conversations with Bette Davis during the last decade of her life, the biographer let the great actress speak for herself. Though she owed ... Weiterlesen

du: Ang Lee und sein Kino

CH 2006, 90 S., mag., € 12.34
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Der Filmemacher Ang Lee begibt sich immer wieder in Lebenswelten, die nicht seine eigenen sind. »Das macht mir Spaß, denn dabei kann ich immer etwas lernen.« Stets sind es die »großen Themen« des Films - Liebe, Schmerz, Verwirrung - die seine Filme bestimmen. Sie sorgten stets für Aufsehen und waren immer wieder unerreichte Auslöser eines ganzen Genres. Die Schweizer Kulturzeitschrift ... Weiterlesen

Claude J. Summers (ed.): The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television

USA 2006, 316 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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How did Liberace's costumes almost kill him? Which lesbian comedian spent her high school years as »the best white cheerleader in Detroit«? For these answers and more, dip into »The Queer Encyclopedia of Film & Television«. Drawn from glbtq.com?dubbed the »Encyclopedia Britanniqueer« by The Advocate - this is the only reference book in which Tallulah Bankhead, Jean Cocteau, Judy Garland, ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson. USA 2005, 468 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 24.95
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University of Minnesota Press
Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering sex for opportunity on the silver screen. While this practice was rampant across Hollywood, for gay actors ... Weiterlesen

Carlos Polimeni: Pedro Almodóvar und der Kitsch espanol

D 2005, 139 S., Broschur, € 15.21
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Pedro Almódovar (Jahrgang 1951) kommt aus einfachen, ländlichen Verhältnissen (kurioserweise stammt er wie Don Quichote aus der spanischen Provinz La Mancha) und findet in der Hauptstadt Madrid den richtigen Ort für seine Selbstverwirklichung als junger, impulsiver, kineastischer Schwuler: er schart in der Subkultur einen Freundeskreis um sich und hält sich mit Kurzfilmen, Comicschreiben, Schauspieler und Musiker knapp über Wasser. Mit ... Weiterlesen

James Robert Parish: Katharine Hepburn - The Untold Story

USA 2005, 328 pp., hardcover, € 25.30
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One of the most singular performers of the 20th century, Hepburn was known as a no-nonsense woman who flouted the rules of stardom. Yet her biographer believes her mannish attitudes, attire, and manners were far more indicative of her sexual nature than a reflection of her role as a pioneering feminist. According to the biographer, Hepburn's offstage image as a ... Weiterlesen

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau: Südseebilder

D 2005, 217 S., geb., € 20.46
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Neben »Nosferatu« und »Faust« gehört »Tabu« zu den filmischen Hauptwerken von Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. Trotz eines Oscars blieb Murnau ein Erfolg in Hollywood versagt. Auch in Deutschland hält es der Regisseur nicht mehr aus und begibt sich 1929 nach Tahiti. Dort filmt er das Leben der Inselbewohner - in Form einer heterosexuellen Liebesgeschichte. Eine Woche vor der Uraufführung 1931 verunglückt ... Weiterlesen

David Lancaster: Montgomery Clift

UK 2005, 106 pp., brochure, € 15.79
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David Lancaster's »Outline« is a significant re-examination of the life and work of one of Hollywood's most provocative and tragic stars, the first for almost thirty years. Drawing on biographies, critical studies and gay and film histories, it sheds new light on the actor's turbulent life and unique contribution to Hollywood films. In particular, it questions previously held assumptions about ... Weiterlesen

Jürgen Kasten, Armin Loacker (Hg.): Richard Oswald

Ö 2005, 575 S., geb., € 25.60
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Richard Oswalds Bedeutung für die deutsche Filmgeschichte wurde bislang kaum wahrgenommen. Meistens - wenn überhaupt - wurde seine Leistung im Rahmen sog. »Aufklärungsfilme« gewürdigt (darunter v.a. der erste Schwulenfilm der Welt »Anders als die anderen« aus dem Jahr 1918). Zeitlebens haftete Richard Oswald der Ruf eines Sonderlings an. Dabei hatte das Werk des österreichischen Regisseurs eine beachtliche Breite, die thematisch ... Weiterlesen

Peter Zander: Thomas Mann im Kino

D 2005, 304 S., brosch., € 25.70
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»Thomas Mann im Kino« bedeutet zweierlei: zum einen beleuchtet das Buch das stetige Interesse des Kinos und des Fernsehens an der Literatur Thomas Manns. Dass Thomas Manns Werk nahezu komplett verfilmt wurde, erscheint umso erstaunlicher, als es nur als schwer verfilmbar gilt. Von Viscontis homoerotischen »Tod in Venedig« über »Felix Krull« mit Horst Buchholz in der Hauptrolle und Hans W. ... Weiterlesen

Michele Aaron (ed.): New Queer Cinema

USA 2004, 204 pp., brochure, € 27.49
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Coined in the early 1990s to describe a burgeoning film movement, this book has turned the attention of film theorists, students, and audiences, to the proliferation of intellligent and stylish work by gay and lesbian filmmakers within the independent cinema and the proliferation of »queer« images and themes within the mainstream. Why did this transition take place? Was it political ... Weiterlesen

Jason Bergund, Beverly West: Gay Cinematherapy

USA 2004, 223 pp., brochure, € 13.99
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Finally, a video and DVD guide that understands, what gay men and their best friends have known for years - movies are more than entertainment, they're therapy that can cure anything from a coming-out crisis to the home-alone-homo blues. A real-life »Will & Grace«, Beverly West, and her best friend and roommate Jason Bergund team up to help gay men ... Weiterlesen

Harry Benshoff, Sean Griffin (eds.): Queer Cinema - The Film Reader

USA/CAN/UK 2004, 242 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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»Queer Cinema« brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities. The collection examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. »Auteurs« examines the ways in which sexuality figures in the work of queer filmmakers. »Forms« explores how the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct ... Weiterlesen

Christian B. Thomsen: Fassbinder

USA 2004, 358 pp., brochure, € 30.79
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Rainer W. Fassbinder was the most innovative practioner of New German Cinema. He worked at breakneck speed and in 14 years made 44 films. Fassbinder ruthlessly attacked both German bourgeois society and the larger limitations of humanity, and his films detail the desperate yearning for love and freedom and the many ways in which society defeats that desire. In »Fassbinder«, ... Weiterlesen

Emily W. Leider: Dark Lover

The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino. USA 2004, 514 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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In the 5 years between his meteoric rise to fame in the silent epic »The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse« and his untimely death at age 31, Rudolph Valentino managed to leave an indelible imprint on our ideas of romance and sexuality that resonates to this day. In this thoughtful retelling of Valentino's short and tragic life the author looks ... Weiterlesen

James Curtis: James Whale

A New World of Gods and Monsters. USA 2003, 457 pp., brochure, € 24.59
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James Whale directed some of the most stylish movies of the 1930s, but he was most successful in a genre he virtually invented. Most famously in »Frankenstein«, Whale created a new type of horror film - sophisticated, tragic, and morbidly humorous. Whale made grim war dramas, light comedy, adventures, mysteries, and even a movie version of the musical »Show Boat«. ... Weiterlesen