History & Criticism
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History Hiding Around Broadway: Backstage Lore, Secrets & Surprises from New York’s Famed Theater District
$25.00 Add to cartGo behind the scenes of the Great White Way with this illustrated guide to the Theater District’s hidden history–an essential book for your explorations of the district from a seasoned Broadway guide… [more below]
- Author: Dvornik, Teale
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489103
- Language: English
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Staying Gold: The Oral History of the Outsiders
$25.00 Add to cartThe definitive oral history of the 1967 novel for teens, turned blockbuster film turned Tony-winning musical, and commemorated with a newly opened museum. This groundbreaking story has managed to stay… [more below]
- Author: O’Connor, Danny Boy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593622987
- Language: English
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How to Watch TV News
$27.00 Add to cartA scathing and prescient look at television news’ now updated for the new tech-savvy generation
Television news: genuine information or entertainment fodder? Fifteen years ago, Neil Postman, a pionee- Author: Postman, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113771
- Language: English
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Disney Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas: The Ultimate Visual History
$39.99 Add to cartWhat’s this?! Why, a tour through the story of Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, featuring behind-the-scenes details about stop-motion animation, concept art, removable inserts, and … [more below]
- Author: Jennings Jelter, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798886631494
- Language: English
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Japan’s Manga Revolution: From Painted Scrolls to Comic Books 1680 -1920
$29.99 Add to cartJourney through Japan’s illustrated history and discover the roots of manga before it took the world by storm.
In this compelling survey, art historian Andreas Marks traces the development of Japanese- Author: Marks, Andreas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 4805319011
- Language: English
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Rewinding the ’80s: Cinema Under the Influence of Music Videos, Action Stars, and a Cold War
$25.99 Add to cartTake a trip back to your favorite video store with this in-depth journey through the highs and lows of 80s cinema–with profiles of hundreds of films–and how Hollywood studios around the globe reflec… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Malahy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0762489669
- Language: English
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The Anime Archives
$40.00 Add to cartEmbark on a voyage through a chronological history of anime, that explores both the marquee cinematic touchstones and enduring series that have shaped the medium.
The Anime Archives celebrates it al
- Author: Lost in Cult
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0008696055
- Language: English
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Synths, Sax and Situationists: The French Musical Underground 1968-1978
$31.00 Add to cartAt the dawn of the ’70s, in a country still reeling from the aftershocks of World War 2, an underground movement of rock musicians resolved to tear it all up and start again.
Welcome to France, 1968.
- Author: Thompson, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 534
- Publish Date: August 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0645492809
- Language: English
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Someday All the Adults Will Die!: The Birth of Texas Punk
$29.95 Add to cartA deep dive into the early days of punk in Austin, Texas, this oral history immerses readers in a diverse and influential music scene.
Texas has always teemed with music and counterculture. When punk
- Series: American Music
- Author: Blashill, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332472
- Language: English
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A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen
$24.95 Add to cartA Chronology of Film presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technical innovations, social changes, and
- Series: A Chronology Of…
- Author: Smith, Ian Haydn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298564
- Language: English
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Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters That Supercharged the World
$30.00 Add to cartAn exclusive look inside the surprising history and contentious future of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster–the Fast & Furious franchise–a series that uncannily anticipated the shifting currents… [more below]
- Author: Hertz, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1538771039
- Language: English
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Reflections: On Cinematography
$45.00 Add to cartFrom a two-time Academy Award winner widely regarded as the greatest cinematographer of all time–a one-of-a-kind visual memoir, telling his life’s story by way of his iconic, beloved films.
Cinemato- Author: Deakins, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1538771500
- Language: English
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Not Here, Not Now: Speculative Thought, Impossibility, and the Design Imagination
$39.95 Add to cartWhat it means to design at a time when, for many people, the future seems to have become an impossibility.
When reality fails us, what can designers do? Question design’s relationship to reality, as A- Author: Dunne, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 026204966X
- Language: English
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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Outrageous, Definitive, Untold History
$30.99 Add to cartThe Indiana Jones of rock history and founding curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum narrates his quest to build the Rock Hall’s collection from scratch–a wild ride that would take him fro… [more below]
- Author: Inciardi, Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 9798895150481
- Language: English
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Behind the Mirror: Inside the World of Big Brother
$27.99 Add to cartA look inside the TV show that watches you back
In a house designed for manipulation, paranoia, and power plays, sixteen strangers are cut off from the outside world–watched every second by cameras, j
- Author: Armstrong, Taran
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1464224536
- Language: English
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The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and a Company Called DreamWorks
$24.99 Add to cartFormer Variety reporter Nicole LaPorte draws from years of inside-the-filmmakers-studio access to spin a smart, gritty tell-all about a clash of industry titans in The Men Who Would Be King.
DreamWork
- Author: Laporte, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0547520271
- Language: English
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Late Star Trek: The Final Frontier in the Franchise Era
$22.95 Add to cartHow Star Trek‘s twenty-first-century reinventions illuminate the unique challenges and opportunities of franchise-style corporate storytelling
Late Star Trek explores the beloved science fiction franch
- Series: Mass Markets: Storyworlds Across Media
- Author: Kotsko, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 151791910X
- Language: English
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Making Mary Poppins: The Sherman Brothers, Walt Disney, and the Creation of a Classic Film
$29.99 Add to cartMaking Mary Poppins reveals the extraordinary true story behind the creation of one of the most beloved films of all time–and the two little-known songwriters who helped make it possible.
Long before
- Author: Pierce, Todd James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1324111070
- Language: English
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Rear Window: The Making of a Hitchcock Masterpiece in the Hollywood Golden Age
$29.00 Add to cartThe definitive, in-depth look inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window–the all-time classic of voyeurism, paranoia, and murder that became one of Hollywood’s greatest achievements and turned generations… [more below]
- Author: O’Callaghan, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0806543884
- Language: English
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Revolution: Prince, the Band, the Era
$27.95 Add to cartRevolution is a detailed exploration into the era of Prince’s most prolific and groundbreaking music made with considerable inspiration and performed by a unique cadre of musicians he gathered and rel… [more below]
- Author: Campion, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1493080849
- Language: English
