Bearmanor Media: 252 books

Until now, the Famous Studios Popeye cartoons have never really been given a fair treatment by animation writers and historians. Authors have concentrated on the earliest Popeye cartoons from Fleischer Studios because those films broke new ground in technique and humor, and on the made-for-TV cartoons...

It is the future, year 3712. And zombies are coming back to life, reciting poetry.A mother and daughter struggle to survive, and keep the guns loaded.

At the top she made millions- at the bottom she scrubbed floors in a parish priest house. All the while she was making headlines around the world. What really happened?There was never a more boisterous or vivacious movie star than Betty Hutton. She bulldozed her way in Hollywood with spirit...

**Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering woman make-up artist, whose career spanned the entire length of Hollywood’s Golden Era from silent movies to the great films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, puts a new foundation on the stars. ** Sinners...

Babyboomers in their thirties never possessed a collective voice until thirtysomething (1987-1991), a thirteen-time Emmy Award-winning series, captured the essence of their angst. Author Scott Ryan now gives the cast and crew their voice on the making of all 85 episodes.Revealing behind-the-scenes...

This comprehensive, deftly written book examines the visual and thematic connections between the four most famous American films to deal with the movie industry and the making of a star. Beginning with 1932's What Price Hollywood? and moving through the 1937, 1954 and 1976 versions of A Star Is Born,...

Writer for The Frankie Howerd Show, Carry On Sergeant, The Bed-Sitting Room, The Goon Show, and many more, John Antrobus brings his delightfully absurd skill to World War I, with the help of three horses."We all know horses stopped talking out loud thousands of years ago,probably because of...

Licardo Prince- An Accidental AssassinPeople dream of the perfect murder each and every day, sometimes they wisha person in their life would just go away but for most the concept of murder isjust too distasteful to even seriously contemplate.One man however saw this as...

"Druxman has taken Hollywood's most famous murder mystery and turnedit into a fascinating narrative that is so evocative of 1920’s Tinseltown. Hisfictional "hero" guides us on a factual journey that not only reveals why the caseremains officially unsolved -- but also identifies...

The Complete Scribes of Speculative Fiction:   A Collection of Interviews  In this combined and updated omnibus edition of Scribes of Speculative Fiction I and II, Cristopher DeRose sits down with over seventy of the best known names in the world of Speculative Fiction writing and gets the real...

"Gay" is the word in most common usage to identify a homosexual male. But since the 1700s, and even earlier, there have been many other words and phrases in use -- the majority of them derogatory. Gay's the Word is a carefully researched, informative and entertaining history of the "gay" language....

"Hey, did you hear the one about the honest lawyer?…""So, this priest says to a rabbi…"When it comes to comedy, nobody knows the comics and their jokes as well as Mel Simons. Mel has spent his entire career enjoying, collecting and chronicling the best of the best, whether it be the comedy...

What do you do when your rich employer chases after every skirt he sees - and doesn't care a hoot if she's a gold digger or not? You stick Close, boy, you stick close!From the comic genius mind of Philip Rapp (creator of The Bickersons and writer for Topper and Baby Snooks) comes...

In Confessions of a Scream Queen, writer Matt Beckoff interviews fifteen legendary 'Ladies of Horror.' Spanning over nine decades of cinema, Confessions is filled with entertaining and informative recollections and personal insights about Hollywood's best-loved horror films. Included...