Girls in Pearls4 reviews Claudia Lanfranconi Merrell, 2006 Just Beautiful!! + Whoda thunk it?!?! + A focus art library holdings, especially those strong in jewelry history, will find packed with insights. This book has many beautiful pictures of dynamic, unforgettable women who all wore pearls in their lifetimes. The history of using pearls as a fashion statement is also chronicled. I bought it for my neice who wears pearls to make her own fashion statement, and it's her first coffee table book. ...             Femmes Fatales1 review Mary Ann Doane Routledge, 1991 For those who love Film Noir and fatales! Mary Ann Doane's book, "Femme Fatales" has a great cover with the wonderful Louise Brooks. The essays and articles helped explain feminism and the film industry. It's sad to believe that the film industry will always be a male industry but that's the way it is. We learn from the book about how the ...             The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies9 reviews Vito Russo Harper Paperbacks, 1987 Classic in its field + Ground Breaking Work + Great writing, great information + One of the best works of film criticism ever written. + A Remarkable Text by a Gifted Amateur in Love with Movies             Lulu (Nick Hern Books Drama Classics) Frank Wedekind Nick Hern Books, 2001 Lulu is a walking, talking object of sexual desire. Each of the first four acts of the play sees her married to a different man, each of whom dies at the end. In the fifth act, Lulu has become a prostitute in late-Victorian London where she encounters Jack the Ripper, who she deliberately leads on. This is Nicholas Wright's new version of Wedekind's early 20th century erotic drama.             Louise Brooks: Lulu Forever12 reviews Peter Cowie Rizzoli, 2006 Thank you for this book + beautifully done! + Fabulous ... Just Like Louise! + Long time Lulu fan..             The Eyebrow6 reviews Robyn Cosio Collins Living, 2000 Amazing and couldn't put it down! + Gorgeous and Fascinating + Very Helpful + LIpstick... now eyebrows!             People And Pearls: The Magic Endures7 reviews Ki Hackney, Diana Edkins HarperCollins, 2000 A Glimmering Success! + Could Not Put It Down + an interesting, beautiful read + Pearl Passion!             The Fifty Most Erotic Films of All Time: From Pandora's Box to Basic Instinct2 reviews Maitland McDonough Citadel, 1996 Who Knew Classics Could Be So HOT!!!!! + A wonderful addition to your film review library I love this book! It shows that "old hollywood" knew how to work it! (R Valentino was a hottie!) I'm a firm believer that actors don't have to bare all to be sexy.             Art Deco Hair: Hairstyles of the 1920s and 1930s Daniela Turudich Streamline Press, 2004 Art deco has long been associated with uncompromising style and sophistication, and this guide to recreating the sassy, controversial styles of the '20s and '30s offers a glimpse back at the hairstyles of this era. The instructions needed to replicate these fashions on the modern woman-from the controversial bob of the Roaring Twenties flapper to the luxurious finger waves of Hollywood's early ...             Louise Brooks: A Biography17 reviews Barry Paris University of Minnesota Press, 2000 An exemplary biography worthy of its subject + Everything you ever wanted to know about Louise Brooks... + Biography and history + A jam-packed book about Louise Brooks + An excellent biography.             Lulu in Hollywood: Expanded Edition13 reviews Louise Brooks University of Minnesota Press, 2000 Musings Of A Rebel. + Quintessential Lulu (Louise Brooks) + A beauty unparalleled in film history I remember when this book came out, but, unfortunately, it took me over twenty years to read it. Though Louise Brooks is far from a household name, in film scholar circles, she is an icon. Her rememberances here of certain individuals and events from her years in the "Dream Factory" are brilliant. ...             Hollywood Dressed and Undressed: A Century of Cinema Style6 reviews Sandy Schreier Rizzoli International Publications, 1998 Fine pictorial overview of Hollywood fashion + GREAT STORIES AND PHOTOS + Great photos with informative and entertaining stories + If you love Hollywood -- you'll love this book!             The Invention of Morel (New York Review Books Classics)12 reviews Adolfo Bioy Casares NYRB Classics, 2003 The Ghost of Lulu + A review that won't spoil your read + Behind the Eternity + LOST in the invention             Louise Brooks Louise Brooks Pygmalion, 1997             Playing to the Camera: Film Actors Discuss Their Craft2 reviews Yale University Press, 1999 An absorbing blend of history, biography & acting insights. + Amazing insight, once you get past the Brit-lit doggerel. Film actors discuss their experiences in a changing industry, from Charlie Chaplin and Greta Garbo to Henry Fonda and Meryl Streep, in Bert Cardullo, et.al.'s absorbing blend of history, autobiography and acting insights. Playing To The Camera pairs their experiences with over fifty movie stills ...             Louise in Love2 reviews Mary Jo Bang Grove Press, 2001 This philistine likes it. . . . + Difficult But Rewarding I really enjoy this book. Why do I like it? The language is sufficiently varied and sparkling and occasionally--every three poems or so--hits absolutely dead on, knocking out my wind. That's a pretty good ratio because I work out and don't easily get winded. I think that Ms. Bang's found a decent ...             Hollywood Glamor Portraits9 reviews Dover Publications, 1976 A wonderful collection of photos for all classic film fans.. + Hollywood Glamor Portraits + Hollywood publicity shots at their best Here is a beautiful book with some breathtaking photos of some the hottest Hollywood film stars of the golden era. The quality of the first and oldest photos are not the best, but one can see an improvement as the years go by. What makes these photos so special are the talented actors who can ...             Roger Ebert's Book of Film: From Tolstoy to Tarantino, the finest writing from a century of film7 reviews W. W. Norton & Company, 1996 Two thumbs up, 'way up... + Exceptional Film Essays + One of the Greatest Books on Film ever put together If you love the movies, if you love good reading and if you love the combination of the two like I do, you will *loooooove* this: a collection of notes, essays, interviews and memoirs by the movie makers, critics and reveiwers, about the icons, the good, the bad and the dirty of Hollywood and the ...             A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond Syracuse University Press, 2003 A famed avant-garde photographer daringly assesses her own place in art and photography. A photographer and art historian of provocative sensibilities, Rita Hammond completed A Due Voci immediately before her death in 1999. In this ground-breaking series of reflections on the history of art and photography, Hammond places herself squarely in the camera's eye and then completes the action by ...             A Due Voci: The Photography of Rita Hammond Syracuse University Press, 2003 A famed avant-garde photographer daringly assesses her own place in art and photography. A photographer and art historian of provocative sensibilities, Rita Hammond completed A Due Voci immediately before her death in 1999. In this ground-breaking series of reflections on the history of art and photography, Hammond places herself squarely in the camera's eye and then completes the action by ...