History & Criticism
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Ferryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh
$37.95 Read moreFerryman of Memories: The Films of Rithy Panh is an unconventional book about an unconventional filmmaker. Rithy Panh survived the Cambodian genocide and found refuge in France where he discovered in … [more below]
- Author: Boyle, Deirdre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: March 17 2023
- ISBN10: 197881464X
- Language: English
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The Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs
$40.00 Read moreThe Wes Anderson Collection: Isle of Dogs takes readers behind the scenes of the beloved auteur’s stop-motion animated film.
Foreword by movie/TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz
Introduction by Every Frame- Series: Wes Anderson Collection
- Author: Wilford, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1419730096
- Language: English
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A History of Horror, 2nd Edition
$27.95 Read moreEver since horror leapt from popular fiction to the silver screen in the late 1890s, viewers have experienced fear and pleasure in exquisite combination. Wheeler Winston Dixon’s fully revised and upda… [more below]
- Author: Dixon, Wheeler Winston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 197883358X
- Language: English
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The Modern Lovers’ the Modern Lovers
$14.95 Read moreFrom the “War on Hippies” to the Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, the story of Modern Lovers is a high octane tale of Brutalist architecture, rock ‘n’ roll ambition and the struggle for identity in a chan
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Maloney, Sean L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322184
- Language: English
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The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater
$25.95 Read moreThis volume gathers sixty years of essays, speeches, and manifestos by the founding mother of the resident professional theatre movement. As a founder and artistic director of the flagship Arena Stage
- Author: Fichandler, Zelda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1559369752
- Language: English
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The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth – A BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’
$35.00 Read more“Michael Spitzer has pulled off the impossible: a Guns, Germs and Steel for music.” –Daniel Levitin
A colossal history spanning cultures, time, and space to explore the vibrant relationship between- Author: Spitzer, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576245
- Language: English
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Glenn Ford: A Life
$26.95 Add to cartGlenn Ford–star of such now-classic films as Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The Big Heat, 3:10 to Yuma, and The Rounders–had rugged good looks, a long and successful career, and a glamorous Hollywood lif… [more below]
- Series: Wisconsin Film Studies
- Author: Ford, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: May 12 2011
- ISBN10: 029928154X
- Language: English
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True Stories of Law & Order: Svu: The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Hit TV Show
$15.00 Add to cartThe incredible real-life cases behind TV’s hit crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including photos. The crimes, the suspects, the trials–as they really went down.
True Stories of Law &- Author: Dwyer, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0425217353
- Language: English
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Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ on
$14.95 Add to cartThe story behind the making of the album that signaled the descent of Sylvester Sly Stone Stewart into a haze of drug addiction and delirium is captivating enough for the cinema. In the spacious attic
- Series: 33 1/3 #32
- Author: Lewis, Miles Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417442
- Language: English
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Band’s Music from Big Pink
$14.95 Read more“Music From Big Pink is a moving book that succeeds not just in vividly evoking its time and place but in distilling one young man’s cliched and minor destiny into something approaching tragedy….Thi
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Niven, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 16 2005
- ISBN10: 082641771X
- Language: English
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The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio
$26.78 Add to cartThis lively blast from the past peels back the many layers of the Top 40 phenomenon: the DJs, fans, singles, jingles, dedications, contests, requests and more. The book features interviews with such r… [more below]
- Author: Fong-Torres, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: December 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0879306645
- Language: English
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Modern Swedish Design: Three Founding Texts
$35.00 Read moreCrucial generative writings exposing the intellectual background of modern Swedish design
Although modern Swedish design has exercised an extraordinary influence on international architecture and inter… [more below]
- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0870707221
- Language: English
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Point Blank
$17.95 Read moreJohn Boorman’s Point Blank (1967) has long been recognised as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasti
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Wilson, Eric G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 183902576X
- Language: English
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I Hate Old Music, Too: How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music
$37.43 Add to cartAn edgy, witty, and opinionated critical analysis of “classic rock” in the 21st century, discussing everything from modern remixes of classic albums (why?) to concert ticket prices, Record Store Day,
- Author: Thompson, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1493073516
- Language: English
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Lou Reed 1972-1986: Every Album, Every Song
$22.95 Add to cartThis book examines the work of the first decade-and-a-half of Lou Reed as a solo artist. It would be easy to paint these years with a broad brush; with the ghost of The Velvet Underground in its after
- Author: Roy, Ethan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1789522838
- Language: English
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Shoes: An Illustrated History
$55.00 Read more‘[A] lively journey through the evolution of footwear’ – The i
‘Handsomely illustrated and meticulously assembled’ – Shahidha Bari, author of Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes
‘An exuberant romp throu- Author: Shawcross, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1350266477
- Language: English
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Tom Petty’s Southern Accents
$14.95 Read moreBy 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like “The Waiting” and “Ref
- Series: 33 1/3 #139
- Author: Washburn, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1501333445
- Language: English
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Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan
$33.82 Read moreNamed a Best Book of the Year by Financial Times
“Singular, stylish and slightly intoxicating in its scope.”
—Rolling StoneAcclaimed media critic J. Hoberman’s masterful and majestic exploration of t
- Author: Hoberman, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1595580069
- Language: English
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Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1978, San Francisco, a city that has seen more than its share of trauma, plunged from a summer of political tension into an autumn cascade of malevolence that so eluded human comprehension it seeme
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Foley, Michael Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1623567300
- Language: English
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Home Computers: 100 Icons That Defined a Digital Generation
$29.95 Read moreA celebration of the early years of the digital revolution, when computing power was deployed in a beige box on your desk.
Today, people carry powerful computers in our pockets and call them “phones.”
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Wiltshire, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0262044013
- Language: English
