Author: Debra Shawn Daubenspeck
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781645435945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Book Description
The Life of Dolls began as a way for Debra Shawn Daubenspeck to manage the emotional challenges she experienced after being diagnosed and treated for cancer. Playing with her dolls transported Debra back to her childhood when things were simple and life was stress-free, and served as a therapeutic tool as she recovered. In this book, you will find over thirty-five original photographs of dolls in everyday scenes, staged and photographed by Debra. She hopes it will bring you the same joy and take you back to more nostalgic days.
Author: A. F. Robertson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415944519
Category : Dolls
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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"... Provides a unique window into the lives of the women who collect and love these dolls"--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Gaby Wood
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571178797
Category : Androids
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Living Dolls tells the story of humanity's age-old obsession with moving dolls and speaking robots, intelligent machines and bionic men - and it gives the history of ingenious inventors and their fantastical creations.
Author: Ann M. M. Martin
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 9780786812400
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in.
Author: Arthur Killer Kane
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 156976297X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 279
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When the New York Dolls' bassist died suddenly at age 55 in 2004, he left behind not only their timeless music--and many thousands of fans and friends--but a memoir of the Dolls' early years. This distinctive and extroverted voice of an undisciplined showman is presented with an introduction and epilogue by his widow, Barbara. This up close and personal perspective of the band's early days and late nights--including an instance where he locks himself out of the studio in full drag while tripping on LSD--chronicles the glorious, glamorous era of high times, high drama, and low comedy that captures the music, the style, and the life of the all-too-brief existence of the New York Dolls.
Author: Stephen Rebello
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143133500
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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"A blissful treasure trove of gossipy insider details that Dolls fans will swiftly devour." --Kirkus Reviews The unbelievable-but-true, inside story of Jacqueline Susann's pop culture icon Valley of the Dolls--the landmark novel and publishing phenomenon, the infamous smash hit film ("the best worst movie ever made"), and Dolls's thriving legacy today Since its publication in 1966, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls has reigned as one of the most influential and beloved pieces of commercial fiction. Selling over thirty-one million copies worldwide, it revolutionized overnight the way books got sold, thanks to the tireless and canny self-promoting Susann. It also generated endless speculation about the author's real-life models for its larger-than-life characters. Turned in 1967 into an international box-office sensation and morphing into a much-beloved cult film, its influence endures today in everything from films and TV shows to fashion and cosmetics tributes and tie-ins. Susann's compulsive readable exposé of three female friends finding success in New York City and Hollywood was a scandalous eye-opener for its candid treatment of sex, naked ambition, ageism, and pill-popping, and the big screen version was one of the most-seen and talked-about movies of the time. Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! digs deep into the creation of that hugely successful film--a journey nearly as cut-throat, sexually-charged, tragic, and revelatory as Susann's novel itself--and uncovers how the movie has become a cherished, widely imitated camp classic, thanks to its over-the-top performances, endlessly quotable absurd dialogue, outré costumes and hairdos, despite the high aspirations, money, and talent lavished on it. Screenwriter-journalist-film historian Stephen Rebello has conducted archival research and new interviews to draw back the velvet curtain on the behind-the-scenes intrigue, feuds and machinations that marked the film's production. In doing so, he unveils a rich, detailed history of fast-changing, late 1960s Hollywood, on screen and off.
Author: Francesca Lia Block
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061997366
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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In a little house from another time, with lace curtains in every window and paintings hung in gold doily frames, Wildflower, Rockstar, and Miss Selene live a warm and cozy life. They wear fancy dresses, bake play-dough cakes, and spend their days enjoying one another's company. For the three dolls, life is small but good. But life is not good for Madison Blackberry, the owner of the dollhouse. Her grandmother pays more attention to the dolls than to her. The dolls have one another, but she is lonely in her big, empty apartment. Then one day, as things always do—even for dolls—everything changes. This beautiful story from the acclaimed team of Francesca Lia Block, author of such novels as Weetzie Bat, and Barbara McClintock, author and illustrator of many picture books, including Adèle & Simon, brings to life the power of love, family, and friendship.
Author: Ellen Datlow
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765376806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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"Seventeen brand-new tales of dolls"--Jacket.
Author: William Sleator
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0765352397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 98
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Vicky is disappointed in her birthday gift of a dollhouse, but she experiences real terror when she is drawn into the house and the lives of its malicious inhabitants.
Author: Natasha Walter
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0748132066
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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I once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.' Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.
