Dr Who’s Monsters

New in at Cinema Books: Dr Who The Ultimate Monster Guide An A-Z of the Doctor’s Deadliest Foes by Justin Richards, $27.95 cloth.  Full color encyclopedia of hundreds of villains throughout all the many Dr. Who incarnations. BBC publication filled with striking photographs.From Tom Baker to David Tennant.

Eastwood in Art

New in at Cinema Books: Clint Eastwood Icon the Essential Film Art Collection edited by David Frangioni, essays by Thomas Schatz, $39.95 cloth. Frangioni’s amazing collection of Clint Eastwood movie posters from all over the world. Wonderful spaghetti westerns posters on display.  Posters from Japan, Russia, Italy, Poland. Great color images of all of Eastwood’s movies right up through Gran Torino.

Lethal Ladies of the Screen

New in at Cinema Books: Femme Fatale Cinema’s Most Unforgettable Lethal Ladies by Dominque Mainon and James Ursini, $24.99 paper.  The dangerous females of the cinema come to life from Theda Bara To Jean Harlow to Maria Felix to Li Gong and Sharon Stone.  Black and white and color pictures set off  these striking stars. This volume presents many foreign actresses including Brigitte Bardot, Monica Bellucci, Isabel Sarli, as well  as showcasing the beautiful Ava Gardner, Gene Tierney and Rita Hayworth.

At the wheel with Paul Newman

New in at Cinema Books: Winning The Racing Life of Paul Newman by Matt Stone and Preston Lerner, $30.00 cloth. Newman entered the world of racing with his role in the 1969 film Winning. With this movie  as a springboard, Newman went from amateur wins to professional IMSA to Trans-Am series as well as the 24 hour endurance races as Le Mans and Daytona. He partnered with Carl Haas to form the Newman/Haas  and produced eight CART/Champ Car titles in 25 years of Indy car racing.

Grace Kelly, Hollywood Princess

New in at Cinema Books: High Society The Life of Grace Kelly by Donald Spoto, $25.95 cloth.  Filled with unpublished interviews with Grace Kelly and many of friends and colleagues: Jimmy Stewart, Cary Grant, Alfred Hitchcock. Spoto promised the princess that he would not write this book until twenty-five years after her death.  This is a  sympathetic biography written in the voice of a friend and  concentrates on her film career with forays into into her love life.

Los Angeles in Pictures

New in at Cinema Books: Los Angeles Portrait of a City by Kevin Starr, edited by Jim Heimann, $70.00 cloth.  From the the first known photograph taken of Los Angeles to more recent vistas. Hundreds of images of Los Angeles emerging from a desert wasteland to becoming a huge metropolis. Pop-culture pictures of the movie star world of Hollywood plus surfing, health food, gangs, and hot rods.  Notable residents from show business, musicians, criminals are depicted and bring the era back to life.

The Art Scene

New in at Cinema Books: Art Cinema by Paul Young,editor Paul Duncan, $29.99 cloth. New pictorial tribute to surrealist, post-surrealism, lyrical tableau, duration, structuralist, collage, expanded and portraiture cinema.  Particularly fine chapter on installation film. Ending the volume with parody, Dada, camp and the remake. Striking images throughout.Man Ray, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Stan Douglas, they are all here.

Illuminating La Grande Illusion

New in at Cinema Books: BFI Film Classics La Grande Illusion by Julian Jackson, $14.95 paper.  New analysis of Jean Renoir’s masterpiece. The unforgettable cast of Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Marcel Dalio and Erich von Stroheim are one of the most powerful ensembles of all time. Finally the author offers his own answer to the mystery of the film’s title: what was the great illusion?

From Welles to Betwitched

New in at Cinema Books: I Love the Illusion The Life and Career of Agnes Moorehead by Charles Tranberg, $24.95 paper.  A career that started with Orson Welles Mercury Theatre of the Air through “The lovely Margot Lane” on The Shadow  and voiced the role of Eleanor Roosevelt on The March of Time.  Originated the role in Sorry, Wrong Number.  Memorablily She appeared in Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.  But probably she is best remembered as Endora in Bewitched.

Dress Up Holmes and Watson

New in at Cinema Books: Sherlock Holmes Paper Dolls by Tom Tierney, $9.99  paper.  Just what you Sherlockians need: paper dolls to dress up Holmes in all his famous disguises. Yes, Lestrade, Moriarty, Mrs. Hudson are here  too with Holmes and Watson. Fun part of this book is tab heads of all the great Holmes and Watson beginning with William Gillette, Basil Rathbone, John Neville, Christopher Lee, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey, Jr. and many more.  All the Watsons  are there too.