If you like pretty women - and I'm afraid I'm really talking
"pretty" here, in a very conventional sense - you've come to the
right book review, because Cinema Sex Sirens has more Pretty Women
than a Julia Roberts fan convention. No, I'm not convinced that
worked, either.
It is a nice book, though. Put together by two chaps, Dave
Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer, founders and publishers of Cinema Retro
magazine, it's absolutely bursting at the seams with beautiful
photos of the many "attractive young women" who defined movie
sexuality in the 1960s and 1970s. Women like Diana Dors, Raquel
Welsh, Natalie Wood and Brigitte Bardot. It's also a pretty
(there's that word again) good read, with in-depth, well-written
profiles of the women featured, and plenty of contextualising
background information. There are a fair few vintage film posters
and whatnot included too, many of which are rather beautiful. A
nice Christmas gift idea for lady-loving film buffs, perhaps?
Omnibus Press
RRP £24.95 (but cheaper at Amazon by the looks of it (see link
below))
A DATE FOR YOUR DIARY?
To celebrate the book's launch, Hammer movie The Vampire Lovers
will be screened with a talk from special guest actress Madeline
Smith.
The Vampire Lovers screening info:
7 December 2011
7.30pm
Riverside Studio, London W6 9RL
£7.50
Buy tickets here: riversidestudios.co.uk
And you can check out the book here:
Cinema Sex Sirens at amazon
