History & Criticism
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Magic to Do: Pippin’s Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond
$36.95 Read moreIn Magic to Do, which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Pippin’s opening, two-time Pulitzer Prize jury member Elysa Gardner turns her attention to this innovative show, the musical retelling of the s… [more below]
- Author: Gardner, Elysa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493064355
- Language: English
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Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup
$49.99 Read moreThe definition of a beautiful face has never been constant. See how political and social climates have molded accepted beauty rituals and the evolution of cosmetics from ancient times through today. T… [more below]
- Author: Hernandez, Gabriela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0764353004
- Language: English
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I See the Rhythm
$12.95 Read moreCoretta Scott King Illustrator Award – American Library Association (ALA)
i see the rhythmis an inspiring celebration of African American music and the far-reaching impact it has had on the world.
From
- Author: Igus, Toyomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0892392126
- Language: English
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$14.95 Read moreChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing –
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weingarten, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429130
- Language: English
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Ensemble: An Oral History of Chicago Theater
$35.00 Read moreChicago is a bona fide theater town, bursting with an explosive, innovative vitality that’s fed every sector of the entertainment industry–from Hollywood to Broadway to Studio 8H–for as long as it’s… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1572842342
- Language: English
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Heathers: A Novel Approach to Cinema
$15.95 Read moreWhat’s your damage?
In 1989, Michael Lehmann’s black comedy Heathers drew a line in the sand, rebuffing the sweetness and optimism of John Hughes’ more popular fare with darkness and death. Launching- Series: Deep Focus
- Author: Bowie, John Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1593764065
- Language: English
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Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts After Cage: A “Minor” History
$31.00 Read moreTony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Normal Lo
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Joseph, Branden W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 489
- Publish Date: August 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1890951870
- Language: English
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Disney: The Mini Art of Disney Villains Disney Villains Art Book
$12.99 Read moreGo behind the scenes of some of Disney’s classic films with this collection of concept art starring some of the studio’s most iconic villains, including Maleficent, Cruella de Vil, Jafar, and more!
Fr- Series: Disney Villains
- Author: Vitale, Brooke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1683839587
- Language: English
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Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963
$14.95 Read moreShelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding’s Live in Europe and James Brown’s Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums e
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Fleming, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1501355546
- Language: English
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Stepford Daughters: Weapons for Feminists in Contemporary Horror
$20.00 Read moreIn Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together.
In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that thi… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Johanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173695
- Language: English
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Moving Pictures: How Rush Created Progressive Hard Rock’s Greatest Record
$24.95 Read moreThere’s nothing like it in the Rush catalog–or, indeed, in the entire prog-rock canon. Stylistically expansive and intellectually ambitious, 1981’s Moving Pictures was a landmark release, one that he
- Author: Romano, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1493062352
- Language: English
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Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage
$34.95 Read moreAn updated paperback version of the book heralded as “a new benchmark in Marx scholarship” by the Los Angeles Times
Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed the- Author: Bader, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0810145758
- Language: English
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Zadig & Voltaire: Established 1997 in Paris
$75.00 Read moreThe first monograph on the contemporary French fashion brand Zadig & Voltaire, published on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
Synonymous with an effortless rock and roll style, Zadig & Voltaire is- Author: Gillier, Thierry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0847873684
- Language: English
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The Way We Were: The Making of a Romantic Classic
$36.95 Read moreThe Way We Were: a nostalgia drenched, bittersweet romance starring superstars Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford at the peaks of their careers, and a story for everyone who was ever loved with passi
- Author: Santopietro, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071254
- Language: English
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American Recordings
$14.95 Read moreWhen Johnny Cash signed to Rick Rubin’s record label in 1993, he was already in the wax museum of memory, a fondly regarded but totally marginalized legend, unheard on the radio and unseen on the char
- Series: 33 1/3 #80
- Author: Tost, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1441174613
- Language: English
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Theater for Beginners
$14.95 Add to cart“One of the strongest directors out there–an artist committed to making us see the world for what it is.” — New Yorker
Maxwell “belong[s] to the top tier of avant-garde auteurs in New York.” — Jaso- Author: Maxwell, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1559364866
- Language: English
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The Essential Directors: The Art and Impact of Cinema’s Most Influential Filmmakers
$25.99 Read moreFrom Turner Classic Movies, this is the essential guide to all the must-know detail on the style, achievements, and landmark films of the most influential directors in cinema history from the silent e
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: de Forest, Sloan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0762498935
- Language: English
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The War on Music: Reclaiming the Twentieth Century
$32.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
“[Mauceri’s] writing is mo- Author: Mauceri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0300233701
- Language: English
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Cat Power’s Moon Pix
$14.95 Read more“Moon Pix was conceived during a hallucinatory waking nightmare in the South Carolina home of Chan Marshall one fateful day in 1997. Like all legends, the aura surrounding them is an impression, a sen… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Kozloskie, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1501377930
- Language: English
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Big Star’s Radio City
$14.95 Add to cartReleased when ELP and Elton John were plodding from one packed stadium to the next, Radio City was a radical album influenced by records that were already deemed oldies and yet sounding like a lean el… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #65
- Author: Eaton, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: May 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826428983
- Language: English
