History & Criticism
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By: Souza, Omari
Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartA historical and philosophical exploration of the impact of design on underserved communities, examining the field’s shortcomings as well as its potential to create positive change. Through essays tha… [more below]
- Author: Souza, Omari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1797223585
- Language: English
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By: Byrne, Wayne
You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga–13 Movies and Counting
$32.95HardcoverAdd to cartYou Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga – 13 Movies and Counting is a cultural and critical examination of the legendary Halloween film franchise, considering the style, themes, and … [more below]
- Author: Byrne, Wayne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1493079786
- Language: English
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By: Escobar, Arturo
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
$43.43PaperbackAdd to cartIn Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attun… [more below]
- Series: New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
- Author: Escobar, Arturo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0822371057
- Language: English
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By: Asare, Masi
Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93PaperbackAdd to cartIn Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters, songwriter, scholar, and dramatist Masi Asare explores the singing practice of black women singers in US musical theatre between 1900 and 1970. Asare shows how a v… [more below]
- Series: Refiguring American Music
- Author: Asare, Masi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 147803095X
- Language: English
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By: Bobkin, Matt
In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe unlikely story of a bunch of small-town Canadian punks who conquered the global music industry.
After punk found commercial success in the ’90s, with bands like Green Day, the Offspring, and Blink
- Author: Bobkin, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1487012683
- Language: English
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By: Nussbaum, Emily
Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
$19.00PaperbackAdd to cartThe rollicking saga of reality television, a “sweeping” (The Washington Post) cultural history of America’s most influential, most divisive artistic phenomenon, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yor… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0525509011
- Language: English
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By: Carvello, Joey
The Boston Hustle: The Hairspray, the Cologne, the Disco & the Betrayal
$26.99HardcoverAdd to cartIn this first-hand account of disco history learn how DeeJay Joey Carvello road the cultural explosion of disco, and how record labels conspired to destroy disco’s independent power.
Dance music has it
- Author: Carvello, Joey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: September 21 2024
- ISBN10: 9798822945753
- Language: English
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By: Plotkin, Fred
Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartOpera is the fastest growing of all the performing arts, attracting audiences of all ages who are enthralled by the gorgeous music, vivid drama, and magnificent production values. If you’ve decided th… [more below]
- Author: Plotkin, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: December 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0786880252
- Language: English
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By: Skinner, Doug
Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartA compendium of other musics, channelled from the spirit world, the fairy kingdom, outer space, secret societies and occult lodges.
This unique collection of esoteric earworms gathers, and reproduces,- Author: Skinner, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1913689212
- Language: English
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By: Zizek, Slavoj
Against Progress
$14.95PaperbackAdd to cartTo define ‘progress’ is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, w
- Series: Zizek’s Essays
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 135051585X
- Language: English
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By: Duncan, Paul
David Bowie. the Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed.
$30.00HardcoverRead moreFirst advertised as a “mind-stretching experience,” Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only h
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 21 2024
- ISBN10: 3836593165
- Language: Multiple Languages
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By: Wasson, Sam
The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
$19.99PaperbackAdd to cart“Sam Wasson’s supremely entertaining book tracks the ups and downs, ins and outs, of a remarkable career. . . . A marvel of unshowy reportage.”–New York Times
The New York Times bestselling author of
- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063037858
- Language: English
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By: Hajdu, David
The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
$32.99HardcoverAdd to cartWhat does it mean to be human in a world where machines, too, can be artists? The Uncanny Muse explores the history of automation in the arts and delves into one of the most momentous and controversia
- Author: Hajdu, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0393540839
- Language: English
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By: Shelton, Robert
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (Updated Edition)
$45.00HardcoverAdd to cartThis new illustrated edition includes key images of Dylan throughout his incredible, enduring career, making it a must for all Dylan fans.
Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in
- Author: Shelton, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1786751623
- Language: English
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By: Resnick, Ira M.
Moxie: The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood
$49.95HardcoverAdd to cartLauren Bacall, Louise Brooks, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Kay Francis, Lillian Gish, Gloria Grahame, Katharine Hepburn, Veronica Lake, Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy, Ida Lupino, Barb… [more below]
- Author: Resnick, Ira M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0789214938
- Language: English
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By: Pelly, Liz
Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$28.99HardcoverAdd to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive cultural criticism, illuminating how streaming is reshaping- Author: Pelly, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1668083507
- Language: English
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By: Grey, Orrin
Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film
$21.99PaperbackAdd to cartGet ready for aliens, kaiju, monsters, and movie maniacs galore!
From author, editor, amateur film scholar, and skeleton Orrin Grey comes Glowing in the Dark, collecting more than a decade of Grey’s be
- Author: Grey, Orrin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 195625207X
- Language: English
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By: Lehmer, Larry
The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe story of the last tour of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Richie Valens-and the fatal air crash that took their lives. Drawing on new documentary information, the author recreates the often gruel… [more below]
- Author: Lehmer, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 04 2009
- ISBN10: 0825672872
- Language: English
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By: Bumpus, Jessica
Little Book of Dolce & Gabbana: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House
$16.95HardcoverAdd to cartElaborate, luxurious and powerful, the Dolce & Gabbana look has always exuded decadent sensuality.
With tailoring and corsets, baroque prints and innovative silhouettes, the fashion house’s Italian ro- Series: Little Books of Fashion #26
- Author: Bumpus, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1802797653
- Language: English
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By: Marker, Chris
Chris Marker: Early Film Writings
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartFormative writings by French avant-garde filmmaker Chris Marker
It is hard to imagine French cinema without La Jet?e (1962), the time-travel short feature by the reclusive French filmmaker Christian
- Author: Marker, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1517913195
- Language: English



















