History & Criticism
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the Campy Cult Classic
$19.99 Read moreThe Rocky Horror Picture Show FAQ is the in-depth story of not only the legendary stage show and movie but of a unique period in theatrical history – in the movie’s UK homeland as well as overseas. Ro… [more below]
- Series: FAQ
- Author: Thompson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: February 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1495007472
- Language: English
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock
$16.95 Read moreExhaustively researched and packed with unique insights, this history journeys from the punk scene’s roots in the mid-1960s to the arrival of “new wave” in the early 1980s. With a cast that includes P… [more below]
- Author: Heylin, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1556525753
- Language: English
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The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
$22.95 Add to cartThis thrilling anthology celebrates the power of desire, bringing together personal essays, manifestos, and scholarly research, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.
The Fem
- Author: Taormino, Tristan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 19 2013
- ISBN10: 155861818X
- Language: English
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Swingin’ at the Savoy
$31.95 Read moreIn this volume, dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress and author Norma Miller shares her historical memoir of Harlem’s legendary Savoy Ballroom and t… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Norma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: April 26 2001
- ISBN10: 1566398495
- Language: English
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On the Waterfront
$15.95 Read more“I could have been a contender, I could have been somebody.” So speaks the haunted former boxer Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) to his brother Charley (Rod Steiger) in a scene from On the Waterfront (Eli… [more below]
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Braudy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: April 30 2005
- ISBN10: 184457072X
- Language: English
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100 Cult Films
$36.95 Read moreSome films should never have been made. They are too unsettling, too dangerous, too challenging, too outrageous and even too badly made to be let loose on unsuspecting audiences.
Yet these films, from- Series: Screen Guides
- Author: Mathijs, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1844574083
- Language: English
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Gone with the Wind: The Great American Movie 75 Years Later
$27.95 Read moreSeventy-five years after America fell in love with the cinematic classic Gone with the Wind, LIFE revisits the making of the award-winning movie and gives readers a rare look into the film’s captivati… [more below]
- Author: The Editors of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1618930702
- Language: English
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Blue Velvet
$17.95 Add to cartFor many, Blue Velvet is David Lynch’s masterpiece. It represents a unique act of cinema: an 80s Hollywood studio film as radical, visionary and cabalistic as anything found in the avant-garde; a myst
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Atkinson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1839023716
- Language: English
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Food and Fashion
$48.00 Read moreFood and Fashion accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at FIT, New York’s only museum dedicated solely to the art of fashion. This beautifully illustrated book featuring over 100 enticing full-
- Author: Marra-Alvarez, Melissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1350164348
- Language: English
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Tokyo Story
$15.95 Add to cartThis BFI Film Classics study of Tokyo Monogatari/Tokyo Story (1953) reveals the making, meaning and legacy behind Ozu Yasujiro’s masterpiece.
Ozu’s moving family drama is universally acknowledged as o- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Phillips, Alastair
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1911239236
- Language: English
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Seven Samurai
$15.95 Read more- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Mellen, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1839024771
- Language: English
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Sunset Boulevard
$17.95 Read moreBilly Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard was a critical and commercial success on its release in 1950 and remains a classic of film noir and one of the best-known Hollywood films about Hollywood. Both its open
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Cohan, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1839024089
- Language: English
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The Jordanaires: The Story of the World’s Greatest Backup Vocal Group
$27.95 Read moreThe greatest backup group in the history of recorded music undoubtedly was the Jordanaires, a gospel group of mostly Tennessee boys, formed in the 1940s, that set the standard for studio vocal groups
- Author: Stoker, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1493064576
- Language: English
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Making the Movement: How Activists Fought for Civil Rights with Buttons, Flyers, Pins, and Posters
$29.95 Add to cartPacked with over 200 color photos, this visual journey through Black history and the Civil Rights Movement is told through the objects–buttons, badges, flyers, pennants, posters, and more–designed b… [more below]
- Author: Crane, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1648961088
- Language: English
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Statesman of the Piano: Jazz, Race, and History in the Life of Lou Hooper Volume 266
$37.95 Read moreOntario-born jazz pianist Lou Hooper (1894-1977) began his professional career in Detroit, accompanying blues singers such as Ma Rainey at the legendary Koppin Theatre. In 1921 he moved to Harlem, per… [more below]
- Series: Carleton Library
- Author: Mills, Sean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0228018803
- Language: English
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A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe
$23.95 Read more- Series: Social and Economic Studies #36
- Author: Brookes, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0919666590
- Language: English
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Mean Streets
$17.95 Read moreMean Streets was Martin Scorsese’s third feature film, and the one that confirmed him as a major new talent. On its premiere at the New York Film Festival in 1973, the critic Pauline Kael hailed the f
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Matheou, Demetrios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1839022957
- Language: English
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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
$22.99 Add to cartAn Epic Journey through the Golden Era of Rock & Roll
Embark on a thrilling musical voyage with The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1. The book traces the evolution of rock and roll from its humble ori- Series: History of Rock & Roll #1
- Author: Ward, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1250138493
- Language: English
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All the President’s Men
$17.95 Read moreAlan J. Pakula’s political thriller All the President’s Men (1976) was met with immediate critical and commercial success upon its release, finishing second at the box office and earning seven Academy
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Ray, Robert B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1839024046
- Language: English
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Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
$18.00 Read moreThe “revelatory” (The New Yorker) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided filmmaker Michael Cimino–and a reevaluation of the infamous film that destroyed his career.
The dire- Author: Elton, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1419747126
- Language: English
