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Hollywood Enigma
University Press of Mississippi 2012; US$ 35.00Dana Andrews (1909-1992) worked with distinguished directors such as John Ford, Lewis Milestone, Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Mervyn Le Roy, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan. He played romantic leads alongside the great beauties of the modern screen, including Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, Greer Garson, Merle Oberon,... more...
Texten fürs Web: Planen, schreiben, multimedial erzählen
dpunkt.verlag 2011; US$ 34.50Hauptbeschreibung "Texten fürs Web" ist das Grundlagenbuch für Online-Journalisten in Medienredaktionen und in Unternehmenspressestellen. Es bietet fundiertes Wissen fürs Planen, Konzipieren und Optimieren von Internetauftritten. Es liefert Anleitungen sowie Tipps und Tricks fürs Schreiben attraktiver Webtexte und zeigt, wie die multimedialen Möglichkeiten... more...
Hollywood Madonna
University Press of Mississippi 2011; US$ 35.00Loretta Young (1913-2000) was an Academy Award-winning actress known for devout Catholicism and her performances in The Farmer's Daughter, The Bishop's Wife, and Come to the Stable, and for her long-running and tremendously popular television series. But that was not the whole story.Hollywood Madonna explores the full saga of Loretta Young's... more...
Local Acts
Rutgers University Press 2005; US$ 26.95An eclectic mix of art, theatre, dance, politics, experimentation, and ritual, community-based performance has become an increasingly popular art movement in the United States. Forged by the collaborative efforts of professional artists and local residents, this unique field brings performance together with a range of political, cultural, and... more...
Lupe Vélez
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 45.00Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of Mexican whirlwind Lupe Velez (1908-1944). Over the years many crude myths have surfaced about Velez, the most notorious that she "died with her head in the toilet." This biography not only studies Lupe's personal life and career--including her... more...
Gregory Peck
Da Capo Press 2009; US$ 20.00His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies?among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner?would not disagree. Irreverent, candid, refreshingly... more...
Acts of Manhood
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage. more...
Exemplary Comparison from Homer to Petrarch
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 99.00A magisterial survey, across the entire European literary tradition to the early fourteenth century, of exemplary figures in literary tradition. more...
They Knew Marilyn Monroe
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 29.95Taking an innovative approach to the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), this biographical dictionary concentrates on her circle of friends, acquaintances and coworkers--1618 in all. Distilled from hundreds of celebrity biographies are references to, and quotes about, the iconic Hollywood sex symbol from such diverse personalities as architect... more...
That's Amore
Taylor Trade Publishing 2004; US$ 16.99Ricci Martin takes readers on a tour through his childhood, from the star-studded parties to the exploration of three marriages, eight kids, one family, to the treasured one-on-one time he shared with his father. more...









