From Inside the White Slave Trade to The Mack, from Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway to Gigi, this is the single comprehensive directory to onscreen whores (as opposed those behind the camera). SS

Publisher: McFarland
Hardback: 593 pages
Illustrated

Publisher: McFarland
Hardback: 252 pages
Illustrated

“An in-depth look at the most independent writer-producer-director Hollywood has ever had. Called ‘original, eccentric and explosive,’ The Steel Helmet, Pickup on South Street, Underworld U.S.A., Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss and White Dog are only some of Fuller’s over-the-top masterpieces. Each of his yarns, as he calls his stories of crime, lust and war, is a free-fire zone of the unexpected and audacious: baroque compositions, long takes and elaborate camera movements; controversial and ‘shocking’ subject matter; big themes and dangerous ones—race, politics, patriotism. Fuller takes a palpable pleasure in subverting Hollywood’s clichés and standards of behavior. His protagonists are the sort most ambitious directors eschew: the dregs, lowlife criminals and hookers, stubbly chinned dogfaces, borderline psychopaths and a few who cross the border and don’t look back. Fuller hates the mainstream moviemaker’s sanitized, idealized depictions of human behavior. When his characters get shot, stabbed or blown up, there are no deathbed scenes or beatific last words, but screams of agony. If forced to choose between a fast buck and a noble gesture, they take the cash.”

Publisher: McFarland
Hardback: 175 pages
Illustrated

“Summarizes the films’ plots and evaluates them in terms of their places within the subgenre…”

Publisher: McFarland
Hardback: 498 pages
Illustrated