History & Criticism
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The Uncanny Muse: Music, Art, and Machines from Automata to AI
$32.99 Add 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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Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (Updated Edition)
$45.00 Add 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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Moxie: The Daring Women of Classic Hollywood
$49.95 Add 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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Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
$28.99 Add 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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Glowing in the Dark: Writings on the Horror Film
$21.99 Add 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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The Day the Music Died: The Last Tour of Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens
$24.95 Add 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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Little Book of Dolce & Gabbana: The Story of the Iconic Fashion House
$16.95 Add 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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Chris Marker: Early Film Writings
$21.95 Add 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
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Baskerville: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartWhen Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers’ eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and tapering serifs. Yet 250 years later, it remains one
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086203
- Language: English
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This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of Cbgb
$22.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1988 and out of print for decades, This Ain’t No Disco tells the real story of CBGB, the birthplace and incubator of American punk and new wave music. The Ramones, Blondie, Tel
- Author: Kozak, Roman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989828333
- Language: English
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Comic Sans: The Biography of a Typeface
$22.99 Add to cartSince its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital age. The subject of April Fools pranks and endless int
- Series: The ABC of Fonts
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086246
- Language: English
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Barbie: The Celebration of an Icon
$50.00 Add to cartA beautifully designed coffee table book celebrating the one and only Barbie(TM)
This official Mattel book celebrates the life and contributions of Barbie. With hundreds of images and sections rangin- Author: Capella, Massimiliano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1419778765
- Language: English
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Sin?ad O’Connor: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
$19.99 Read moreA significant collection of interviews with the defiant, controversial, and ground-breaking singer, songwriter, and activist throughout her turbulent career . . .
“It’s not like I got up in the mornin- Series: Last Interview
- Author: Melville House
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891853
- Language: English
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Falling in Love at the Movies: Rom-Coms from the Screwball Era to Today
$24.00 Add to cartPrepare to swoon, ugly cry, laugh, and fall in love with this officially licensed exploration of the impact and legacy of one of film’s most beloved genres from Turner Classic Movies: the rom-com.
Ro- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Zuckerman, Esther
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484462
- Language: English
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The Sopranos: The Complete Visual History
$65.00 Add to cartCelebrate the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos with this definitive and intimate portrait of one of the most groundbreaking television shows ever made.
The Sopranos is widely regarded as one of the gr- Author: Richmond, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886636383
- Language: English
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The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
$29.99 Add to cart“Hollywood boldly went where it hadn’t gone before and Nashawaty chronicles the journeys.” –Los Angeles Times (“Books You Need To Read This Summer”)
“Written with a fan’s enthusiasm . . . An importan- Author: Nashawaty, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1250827051
- Language: English
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Pulp’s This Is Hardcore
$14.95 Add to cart“Essential reading, plain and simple.” – Cult Following
This Is Hardcore is Pulp’s cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 199
“Savidge knows the album backwards.” – UNCUT- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Savidge, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765106952
- Language: English
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Female Masculinity
$29.95 Add to cartIn this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well o… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1478001623
- Language: English
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I Can’t Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy
$34.95 Read moreThe stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overdoses, plane crashes–all have taken the lives of male rock stars still in their primes. But what beca
- Author: Tucker-Sullivan, Lori
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1493084143
- Language: English
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Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other
$28.99 Add to cartNothing has brought English soccer more immediately into the American mainstream than Ted Lasso, which captivated the nation in thirty-four episodes over three seasons. But before there was Jason Sude
- Author: Preston, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1324095474
- Language: English
