Entertainment & Performing Arts
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Beyond Ridiculous: Making Gay Theatre with Charles Busch in 1980s New York
$35.00 Read moreBeyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians… [more below]
- Series: Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
- Author: Elliott, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1609389190
- Language: English
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Bond on Bond: Reflections on 50 Years of James Bond Movies
$29.95 Add to cartThe Bond movies remain the longest continually running film series in movie history, and 2012 marksits fiftieth anniversary. While there have been other actors that have taken on the coveted role of J… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0762782811
- Language: English
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Lynyrd Skynyrd: Remembering the Free Birds of Southern Rock
$16.99 Read moreThe first complete, unvarnished history of Southern rock’s legendary and most popular band, from its members’ hardscrabble boyhoods in Jacksonville, Florida and their rise to worldwide fame to the tra… [more below]
- Author: Odom, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0767910273
- Language: English
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Compound Cinematics (Paperback): Akira Kurosawa and I
$14.95 Read moreAny list of Japan’s greatest screenplay writers would feature Shinobu Hashimoto near or at the top. This memoir, focusing on his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa, a gifted scenarist in his own right… [more below]
- Author: Hashimoto, Shinobu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1647293227
- Language: English
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Coreyography: A Memoir
$19.00 Read more“Spares no details.” –Starred Publishers Weekly Review
“An incredible read.” –Richard Donner, Director “People always ask me about life after childhood stardom. What would I say to parents of childr- Author: Feldman, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 1250054915
- Language: English
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Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant: The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible Icon
$16.99 Read moreKeanu Reeves: Most Triumphant is a tribute to and exploration of the magic behind one of Hollywood’s most legendary and unknowable stars and the profound lessons we can learn from his success.
There- Author: Pappademas, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1419752278
- Language: English
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The Mouth of the South: The Jimmy Hart Story
$18.95 Read moreWhat went wrong with WCW? An omnipresent megaphone and maniacal, high-pitched giggle are the only clues that fans of pro-wrestling need to identify perhaps the most successful and internationally reco… [more below]
- Author: Hart, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1550225952
- Language: English
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Swingin’ at the Savoy
$31.95 Read moreIn this volume, dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress and author Norma Miller shares her historical memoir of Harlem’s legendary Savoy Ballroom and t… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: April 26 2001
- ISBN10: 1566398495
- Language: English
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Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood
$18.00 Read moreFrom the star of Broadway’s The Book of Mormon and HBO’s Girls, the heartfelt and hilarious coming-of-age memoir of a Midwestern boy surviving bad auditions, bad relationships, and some really bad hi… [more below]
- Author: Rannells, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525574867
- Language: English
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Sridevi: The Eternal Screen Goddess
$19.95 Read moreHailed as the first pan-Indian female superstar in an era which literally offered actresses crumbs, Sridevi tamed Hindi cinema like no other. Beginning her affair with the camera when she was four, th… [more below]
- Author: Nayak, Satyarth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 16 2019
- ISBN10: 0670092673
- Language: English
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Kevin Smith’s Secret Stash: The Definitive Visual History (Classic Movies, Film History, Cinema Books)
$65.00 Read more“Being Kevin Smith is my favorite thing in the world. . . . I don’t have a job. I don’t even have a career anymore. I’m just me for a living.”
Making the leap from convenience store worker to internat- Author: Smith, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1683830997
- Language: English
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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
$18.00 Read moreThe “revelatory” (The New Yorker) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino–and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career.
The dire- Author: Elton, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1419747126
- Language: English
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Never Too Late
$14.00 Read moreMTV reality star Amber Portwood’s autobiography describes her shocking downward spiral and recovery after prision.
When Amber Portwood debuted on MTV’s hit reality series 16 & Pregnant, no one could h- Author: Portwood, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1682613275
- Language: English
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Texas Is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk
$34.99 Add to cart“Pat Blashill’s beautiful book of photos captures the poetics and energetic eccentricities of the post punk Austin, Texas music scene of the ’80s, things one will never get on the internet. Long live … [more below]
- Author: Blashill, Pat
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1935950177
- Language: English
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
$15.95 Read moreAn intimate account of Paris-born author Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States, where-after drifting from Boston to the West Coast and back-he wound up in New York City and became deeply… [more below]
- Author: Marcade, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941110495
- Language: English
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Patti Smith on Patti Smith: Interviews and Encounters
$30.00 Read moreFrom the moment Patti Smith burst onto the scene, chanting “Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine,” the irreverent opening line to Horses, her 1975 debut album, the punk movement had found its … [more below]
- Series: Musicians in Their Own Words
- Author: Levy, Aidan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0912777001
- Language: English
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Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
$17.99 Add to cart“An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate–and most importantly–a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability.” —Doug
- Author: Cumming, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062435795
- Language: English
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Glenn Ford: A Life
$26.95 Add to cartGlenn Ford–star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders–had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood lif… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
- Author: Ford, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 12 2011
- ISBN10: 029928154X
- Language: English
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Billie Holiday: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$16.99 Read moreThe first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House’s beloved Last Interview series
Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Holiday, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 1612196748
- Language: English
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Sam Shepard: A Life
$18.95 Read more“John Winters offers a master class in literary sleuthing, untangling the many lives and unearthing the origin story of America’s foremost Renaissance man of letters.” –Kelly Horan, coauthor of Devot… [more below]
- Author: Winters, John J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1619029731
- Language: English
