Andrew Hansford: Dressing Marilyn

How a Hollywood Icon was Styled by William Travilla. USA 2012, 192 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 27.95
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Hal Leonard
In the history of Hollywood, has any image ever titillated the public's imagination as much as the iconic one of Marilyn Monroe in »The Seven Year Itch«, her white dress blowing up to reveal, well, pretty much everything? That moment remains indelible to movie fans and glamour addicts, William Travilla, one of Hollywood's most sought-after costume designers, created not ... Weiterlesen

Scotty Bowers: Full Service

My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. UK 2012, 288 pp. with numerous b/w photos, brochure, € 19.95
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Atlantic
Newly discharged from the Marines after WWII, Scotty Bowers arrived in Hollywood in 1946. Young, charismatic, and strikingly handsome, especially in his military uniform, he quickly caught the eye of many of the town's stars and starlets. He began sleeping with some himself, and connecting others with his coterie of young, attractive, and sexually free-spirited friends. In his 30 years ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Jubilee

Six Film Scripts. USA 2011, 226 pp., brochure, € 17.79
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University of Minnesota Press
From the early 1970s until his death in 1994, Derek Jarman made scores of films. Assembled here are six of his unforgettable film scripts: »Akenaten«, »Jubilee«, »Bob-Up-A-Down«, »B Movie: Little England/A Time of Hope«, »Neutron«, and »Sod 'Em« - five of these films haven't made it to the screen yet. For some, Jarman was much of a Renaissance man, aggressively ... Weiterlesen

Susan Knabe and Wendy G. Pearson: Zero Patience

CAN 2011, 183pp. with b&w film stills, brochure, € 15.99
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on John Greyson's controversial 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis which combines experimental, camp musical, and documentary aesthetics while refuting the legend of Patient Zero, the male flight attendant accused in Randy Shilts' book »And the Band Played on« of bringing the AIDS crisis to North America. This book provides a guided tour of the ... Weiterlesen

William E. Jones: Halsted Plays Himself

USA 2011, 216 pp. with numerous b/w + color photographs, hardbound, € 39.95
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MIT Press - Semiotext(e)
Fred Halsted's »L.A. Plays Itself« (1972) was gay porn's first masterpiece: a sexually explicit, autobiographical, experimental film whose New York screening left even Salvador Dalí repeatedly muttering »new information for me«. Halsted, a self-taught filmmaker, shot the film over a period of three years in a now-vanished L.A. that harbored a long-gone gay lifestyle at a volatile point in time ... Weiterlesen

Will Aitken: Death in Venice

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2011, 189 pp. with b&w filmstills, brochure, € 13.95
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Arsenal Pulp Press - Queer Film Classic
A Queer Film Classic on Luchino Visconti's lyrical and controversial 1971 film based on Thomas Mann's novel, about a middle-aged heterosexual artist (played by Dirk Bogarde) vacationing in Venice who becomes obsessed with a youth staying at the same hotel as a wave of cholera descends upon the city. The book analyzes the film's cultural impact and provides a vivid ... Weiterlesen

Michael Gregg Michaud: Sal Mineo

USA 2011, 422 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 19.95
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Sal Mineo is probably most well-known for his turn opposite James Dean in »Rebel Without a Cause« and his tragic murder at the age of 37. Finally, in this biography filled with interviews with both Mineo's closest male and female lovers, the biographer tells the full story of this young actor's life, charting his meteoric rise to fame, turbulent career, ... Weiterlesen

William R. Handley (ed.): The Brokeback Book

From Story to Cultural Phenomenon. USA/UK 2011, 386 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 25.95
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An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, »Brokeback Mountain« was a global cultural phenomenon even before it became the highest grossing gay-themed drama in film history. Few films have inspired as much passion and debate, or produced as many contradictory responses, from online homage to late-night parody. In this collection, writers, journalists, scholars, and ordinary ... Weiterlesen

Barbara Hammer: Hammer!

Making Movies out of Sex and Life. USA 2010, 281 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 27.95
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Feminist Press
»Hammer!« is the first book by influential filmmaker Barbara Hammer, whose life and work have inspired a generation of queer, feminist, and avant-garde artists and filmmakers. The wild days of non-monogamy in the 1970s, the development of a queer aesthetic in the 1980s, the fight for visibility during the culture wars of the 1990s, her search for meaning as she ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Dancing Ledge

USA 2010, 256 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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University of Minnesota Press
From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in both his films and writing. Accompanied by nearly one hundred photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in »Dancing Ledge« provide intimate and incredibly vivid glimpses ... Weiterlesen

Derek Jarman: Kicking the Pricks

USA 2010, 251 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 16.95
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University of Minnesota Press
The provocative title of the 4th volume of Jarman's journals suggests a look back in anger and defiance of the conventional. It is, but it is also rich in wit, intellect, and a clearly articulated aesthetic. Written while editing his film »The Last of England« and originally entitled that in Britain, this 1st American edition goes by the uncompromising title ... Weiterlesen

Donald Spoto: Possessed - The Life of Joan Crawford

USA 2010, 336pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 21.99
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Joan Crawford was one of the most incandescent film stars of all time, yet she was also one of the most misunderstood. The biographer here goes beyond the popular caricature - the abusive, unstable mother portrayed in her adopted daughter Christina Crawford's memoir, »Mommie Dearest« - to give us a three-dimensional portrait of a very human woman, her dazzling career, ... Weiterlesen

Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince: 50 Years of Queer Cinema

500 of the Best GLBTQ Films Ever Made. USA 2010, 502 pp., brochure, € 23.99
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The world's production of 50 years of GLBTQ cinema has shattered the door to the celluloid closet. Thanks to this, and to a flood of classics re-released in DVD format, a brave new world of queer iconography has emerged for film junkies. This book documents these trends. From the tawdry to the beautiful, »The Love That Dared not Speak its ... Weiterlesen

Brad Epps, Despina Kakoudaki (eds.): All About Almodóvar

A Passion for Cinema. USA 2009, 496 S., brochure, € 24.95
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One of the world cinema's most exciting filmmakers, Pedro Almodóvar has been delighting, provoking, arousing, shocking, and - above all - entertaining audiences around the globe since he burst on the film scene in the early 1980s. This book offers new perspectives on the filmmaker's artistic vision and cinematic preoccupations, influences, and techniques. Through overviews of his oeuvre and in-depth ... Weiterlesen

José Quiroga: »Law of Desire«

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2009, 157 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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»Law of Desire«, the 1987 homoerotic melodrama by Pedro Almodóvar, Spain' smost successful contemporary film director, is a grande tale of love, lust, and amnesia. It features three main characters: a gay film director, his sister, an actress who was once his brother, and a repressed, obsessive stalker. In the twenty-plus years since its first release, »Law of Desire« has ... Weiterlesen

Jon Davies: »Trash«

A Queer Film Classic. CAN 2009, 175 pp., brochure, € 13.95
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The 1970 film »Trash« was arguably the greatest collaboration between director Paul Morrissey and producer Andy Warhol, and a moment of shining glory for their superstars Joe Dallesandro and Holly Woodlawn. It is a satirical melodrama about a decidedly down- and-out couple: Joe, the hunky but impotent junkie, and Holly, his feisty, sexually frustrated girlfriend. While a depleted Joe passively ... Weiterlesen

Laurence Maslon: The Some Like It Hot Companion

USA 2009, 192 pp., hardbound, € 31.30
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»Some like It Hot« remains an undisputed classic 50 years after its release, as it continues to capture three of American culture's great preoccupations - jazz, gangsters, and Marilyn Monroe. The book details the history of this side-splitting farce from its roots as an obscure 1951 German film to its Hollywood conception, where Billy Wilder transposed the material to the ... Weiterlesen

Sean Griffin (ed.): Hetero

Queering Representations of Straightness. USA 2009, 270 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Just as feminist scholars have turned to considerations of masculinity and scholars of race have begun to consider whiteness as a category, this collection brings the insights of queer theory to bear on cinematic representations of straightness. Spanning decades and cultures, from silent Hollywood films to modern Mumbai cinema, the essays in this book uncover multiple forms of heterosexual desire ... Weiterlesen