History & Criticism
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Kubrick: An Odyssey
$21.95 Add to cartThe definitive biography of the creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and A Clockwork Orange, presenting the most in-depth portrait yet of the groundbreaking film-maker.
The enigmatic and elu- Author: Kolker, Robert P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368760
- Language: English
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The Birth of Seattle Rap
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Seattle streets to studio beats.
In the early 1980s, a subterranean shift in Seattle’s music scene began. Disco’s reign over parties and dance clubs faded, and hip-hop became the new attractio
- Series: Narrative
- Author: 132, Novocaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158240
- Language: English
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Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound
$35.00 Add to cartA cello has no language, yet it possesses a vocabulary wide enough to tell, bear witness, and make connections across time and continents–a feat brought to life in this brilliant new book.
In this l- Author: Kennedy, Kate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1639367500
- Language: English
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Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$38.00 Read moreThis new and updated edition covers the full life’s work of iconic director Tim Burton, including the Netflix phenomenon Wednesday and the start of development on Beetlejuice 2.
Tim Burton is one of- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0711292612
- Language: English
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Leonard Cohen: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall
$29.95 Add to cart“Leonard Cohen is a literary masterpiece — the seminal, comprehensive biography of a multitalented man who wrote more than his share of literary masterpieces himself.” — Foreword, Starred Review
“Wi- Author: Lebold, Christophe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1770417443
- Language: English
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For the End of Time: The Story of the Messiaen Quartet
$25.95 Add to cartThe clarinetist Rebecca Rischin has written a captivating book…. Her research dispels several long-cherished myths about the 1941 premiere…. Rischin lovingly brings to life the other musicians–?t
- Author: Rischin, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 13 2006
- ISBN10: 0801472970
- Language: English
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Trout Mask Replica
$14.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and
- Series: 33 1/3 #44
- Author: Courrier, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427812
- Language: English
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Maison Martin Margiela
$120.00 Read moreGraduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional… [more below]
- Author: Margiela, Maison Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0847831884
- Language: English
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The Green Imperative: Ecology and Ethics in Design and Architecture
$16.95 Read moreWhether it’s horror at the plastic littering the world’s beaches or despair at the melting polar ice caps, the world is gradually waking up to the impending climate disaster. In The Green Imperative,
- Author: Papanek, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0500296197
- Language: English
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Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville
$14.95 Read moreAlthough Exile in Guyville was celebrated as one of the year’s top records by Spin and the New York Times, it was also, to some, an abomination: a mockery of the Rolling Stones’ most revered record an
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Arnold, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1441162577
- Language: English
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John Ford
$24.95 Read more- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: McBride, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0813198372
- Language: English
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Party Music: The Inside Story of the Black Panthers’ Band and How Black Power Transformed Soul Music
$19.95 Add to cartConnecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on t… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Rickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1613744927
- Language: English
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Fugazi’s in on the Kill Taker
$14.95 Read moreBy June 1993, when Washington, D.C.’s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined
- Series: 33 1/3 #129
- Author: Gross, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501321390
- Language: English
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The Wit and Wisdom of Bridgerton: Lady Whistledown’s Official Guide
$16.99 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes a highly designed, colorful collection of quotes, wit, and wisdom from Lady Whistledown and the most memorable characters of the much-lo
- Author: Quinn, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0063216019
- Language: English
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It Doesn’t Suck: Showgirls
$14.95 Add to cartA new edition of the first book in the acclaimed Pop Classics series
The Worst. Movie. Ever. is a masterpiece. Seriously. Enough time has passed since Showgirls flopped spectacularly that it’s time f
- Series: Pop Classics #1
- Author: Nayman, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1770414401
- Language: English
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Wire’s Pink Flag
$14.95 Add to cartIn contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-comment… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #62
- Author: Neate, Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429149
- Language: English
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ABCs of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory
$29.95 Read more“… accomplishes what the other books on the Bauhaus don’t, which is to demonstrate, in concise language and clear graphics, exactly how Bauhaus design theory works in practice.”—The Wall Street Jou… [more below]
- Author: Miller, J. Abbott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1616897988
- Language: English
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Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA
$14.95 Read moreWhen Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of “Born in the U.S.A.” Max Weinberg
- Series: 33 1/3 #27
- Author: Himes, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: August 19 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416616
- Language: English
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls
$14.95 Read moreIt’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and t
- Series: 33 1/3 #81
- Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 09 2011
- ISBN10: 1441192808
- Language: English
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U2’s Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall
$14.95 Add to cartStephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2’s most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplo… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #49
- Author: Catanzarite, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427847
- Language: English
