History & Criticism
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Inspired Enterprise: How Nasa, the Smithsonian, and the Aerospace Community Helped Launch Star Trek
$35.00 Add to cartStar Trek creator Gene Roddenberry sought to create a work of science fiction that would immerse viewers not only through clever storylines and modern visual effects, but also by presenting the story … [more below]
- Author: Swanson, Glen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0764369369
- Language: English
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Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror
$22.00 Add to cartThe ultimate story of the Scream movie franchise, featuring interviews from more than eighty key players and an in-depth exploration of the creation and legacy of the films that revived a dying genre … [more below]
- Author: Cullins, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0593474708
- Language: English
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That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film
$33.99 Add to cartThat Very Witch explores the cyclical rise and fall of the cinematic witch in American culture and her relationship to feminist movements over time.
Through historical analysis and dozens of case studi
- Author: McCarty-Simas, Payton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1915556600
- Language: English
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Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In (Updated Edition)
$54.99 Add to cartThis brand-new, updated art book-sized hardcover edition of the long out-of-print collection by cult film host Joe Bob Briggs features new writing, movie reviews, and fan letters not seen in over 40 y… [more below]
- Author: Briggs, Joe Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 150674818X
- Language: English
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Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
$26.99 Add to cartA poignant, heartfelt, and funny memoir about how, in 1985, Michael J. Fox brought to life two iconic roles simultaneously–Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties and Marty McFly in Back to the Future. An amaz
- Author: Fox, Michael J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1250866782
- Language: English
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Cocteau Twins’ Blue Bell Knoll
$14.95 Add to cartIn this exploration of Cocteau Twins’ quintessential album, Chris Tapley traces lines in all directions from Blue Bell Knoll to paint a revealing portrait of the enigmatic trio and their career-long s
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Tapley, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1501390449
- Language: English
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Liberty.: Design. Pattern. Color.
$75.00 Add to cartLiberty–an icon of design innovation and luxury–is renowned internationally for fabric designs on silk, wool, cashmere and, most famously, Tana Lawn(TM) Cotton. Gathered here are 150 of the most str
- Author: St Clair, Kassia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0500028850
- Language: English
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Lost in the Stream: How Algorithms Redefined the Way Movies Are Made and Watched (Gift for Movie Lovers, What to Watch)
$18.99 Add to cartExplore Cinema History, Stream Your Favorites
This engaging book by Jeff Rauseo blends film history with a modern guide to streaming, helping you navigate the complex history of movie making and ultima
- Author: Rauseo, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1684818192
- Language: English
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Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities
$24.95 Add 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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You Can’t Kill the Boogeyman: The Ongoing Halloween Saga–13 Movies and Counting
$32.95 Add 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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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
$43.43 Add 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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Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters: Black Women, Voice, and the Musical Stage
$41.93 Add 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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In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World
$21.99 Add 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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Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV
$19.00 Add 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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The Boston Hustle: The Hairspray, the Cologne, the Disco & the Betrayal
$26.99 Add 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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Opera 101: A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
$25.99 Add 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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Music from Elsewhere: Haunting Tunes from the Afterlife, Alien Worlds and Occult Realms
$22.95 Add 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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Against Progress
$14.95 Add 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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David Bowie. the Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Add to cartFirst 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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The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story
$19.99 Add 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
