Hollywood Bound by Peter Doggett and Tony Nourmand

Coming out next month is a new photography book titled Hollywood Bound which features our lovely girl Jayne Mansfield on the front cover.

Hollywood Bound is a tremendous photographic guide to the history of movie bondage. Includes over 100 photographs reproduced to the highest quality.

Hollywood was a city of extremes: not for Tinseltown the carefully judged subtleties of shot and tone that were the hallmark of the art-house auteurs. It demanded passion, thrills, suspense, violent outbursts of emotion and movement and so for every protagonist sweeping his way across the screen with a silvery rapier or a sensuous leer, there had to be a victim, waiting to be tossed aside with contemptuous ease or devoured whole in a paroxysm of lust. ... And so it was that innocent maidens were pinned down by rapacious seducers; monstrous villains chained to receive their just desserts; valiant heroes manacled or trussed or viciously tied, awaiting the cruelest of tortures, physical or psychological only to free themselves in the final reel, and carry off the equally endangered heroines to safety and starry-eyed romance.

I pre-ordered my copy through the book depository as they currently have 15% off and as always free worldwide shipping.

http://www.bookdepository.com/Hollywood-Bound-Tony-Nourmand/9780957261075