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Goldie Hawn: Goldie - A Lotus Grows in the Mud

Goldie Hawn: Goldie - A Lotus Grows in the Mud

USA 2006, 447 pp., brochure, € 14.79
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
With her trademark effervescence, Goldie delivers a personal look at private and powerful events that carried her through life: her father's spontaneity, her mother's courage, and the joy of being a daughter, a sister, a parent, and a lover. She writes about her childhood dreams of becoming a ballerina. She takes us on a tour of her go-go years in ... Weiterlesen

Gary M. Kramer: Independent Queer Cinema

Gary M. Kramer: Independent Queer Cinema

USA 2006, 255 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
»Independent Queer Cinema« collects 100 of film critic Kramer's reviews and interviews that celebrate the latest »queer wave« of actors, writers and directors. From the US-hit »Kissing Jessica Stein« and the provocative gem »Come Undone«, to tantalising insights from Stephen Fry and Tilda Swinton - the book is a valuable reference guide as well as an entertaining compilation of Kramer's ... Weiterlesen

James Smalls: The Homoerotic Photography of Carl van Vechten

James Smalls: The Homoerotic Photography of Carl van Vechten

USA 2006, 199 pp., hardback, € 33.20
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
A white supporter of the Harlem Renaissance, Van Vechten was a portrait photographer as well as the author of popular novels and criticism, and is very much worthy of rediscovery today. The departure point for this incisive volume is a series of nude, interracial, homoerotic photographs that Van Vechten took in the '30s and '40s. In contextualizing them, the author ... Weiterlesen

Darwin Porter: Brando Unzipped

Darwin Porter: Brando Unzipped

USA 2006, 644 pp., cloth, € 21.39
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This new biography about Marlon Brando claims to feature a photograph of the late actor having oral sex - with another man. The book also claims that the legendary star, who died in 2004 aged 80, was insatiable in the bedroom and slept his way through some of Hollywood's biggest stars, both male and female. The author also claims the ... Weiterlesen

Darwin Porter: Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film

Darwin Porter: Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film

USA 2006, 400 pp., brochure, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Here is a rundown of the year's most intriguing gay, lesbian, and transgendered films. A defiant challenge to films today, it gets sweaty with gay cowboys, gay Nazis, nude marines, ballsy detectives, hit men, porn stars, and women in love with each other. You'll get the scent of lavender, the smell of testosterone, and the aroma of velvet. Descriptions and ... Weiterlesen

Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

Charles Winecoff: Anthony Perkins

USA 2006, 449 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

Ilija Dürhammer: Geheime Botschaften

Ilija Dürhammer: Geheime Botschaften

Ö/D 2006, 567 S., geb., € 47.00
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Wer Ilija Dürhammers spritzigen Vortrag im Schubert-Haus Anfang Mai versäumt hat, kann seine Erkenntnisse über die Homoerotik in Leben und Werk so verschiedener österreichischen kulturellen Größen wie Franz Schubert, Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Thomas Bernhard hier nachlesen. Dürhammer zeigt besonderes Interesse an den größeren Zusammenhängen, in denen die Homosexualität der drei Männer umso deutlicher ans Tageslicht tritt: er beleuchtet die ... Weiterlesen

Charlotte Chandler: Bette Davis

Charlotte Chandler: Bette Davis

USA 2006, 348 pp., hardback, € 24.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

du: Ang Lee und sein Kino

CH 2006, 90 S., mag., € 12.34
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
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

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

Bernhard Rosenkranz und Gottfried Lorenz: Hamburg auf anderen Wegen

Bernhard Rosenkranz und Gottfried Lorenz: Hamburg auf anderen Wegen

Die Geschichte des schwulen Lebens in der Hansestadt. D 2005, 383 S. mit zahlreichen Abb., Broschur, € 34.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Lambda Edition
Dieses Buch zeichnet die Geschichte schwuler Männer in der Hansestadt Hamburg von der Weimarer Republik bis zur Jahrtausendwende nach und schließt damit eine Lücke in der Geschichtsschreibung der Elbmetropole. Anhand von Interviews mit vielen Zeitzeugen, der Auswertung von Akten der Polizei, Gestapo und Jugendbehörde aus dem Hamburger Staatsarchiv, von Archiven schwuler Organisationen, von Homosexuellenzeitschriften und Tagebüchern ist es den Autoren ... Weiterlesen

Robert Hofler: The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson

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

Otmar Rychlik: Anton Kolig - Männliche Aktzeichnungen

Otmar Rychlik: Anton Kolig - Männliche Aktzeichnungen

D 2005, 104 S., geb., € 40.00
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Hatje Cantz
Anton Koligs umfangreiches zeichnerisches Werk ist ausschließlich dem männlichen Akt gewidmet, den er in Darstellungen des zumeist liegenden, kühn verkürzten Körpers feiert. Die Publikation mit kenntnisreichen Texten von Otmar Rychlik, dem Verfasser des Werkverzeichnisses der Gemälde von Anton Kolig, präsentiert erstmals die Zeichnungen des Künstlers in ihrem chronologischen Zusammenhang - von den hochexpressiven Anfängen um 1910 über die Jahre eines ... Weiterlesen

Tim Riley: Fever

Tim Riley: Fever

USA 2005, 237 pp., brochure, € 13.89
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Tim Riley lives in New York and is the author of »Tell Me Why« and »Hard Rain«. His commentary on pop culture appeared in »The Washington Post«, »Boston Magazine«, »The Boston Phoenix«, »Salon« and »Feed«. He is currently the pop critic for NPR's »Here and Now«. In »Fever«, the music critic agues that while political and athletic role models have ... Weiterlesen

Kera Bolonik: The L-Word

Kera Bolonik: The L-Word

Welcome to Our Planet, USA 2005, 242 pp., brochure, € 15.49
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
The popular series about a group of lesbians living and loving in LA has become a genuine phenomenon since its spectacular debut in the year of 2004. The cast is wonderful, the writing impressive, and it has a lure that is undeniable. The L Word is simply hot! Now, here is the official guide to this groundbreaking show, featuring more ... Weiterlesen

  
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