History & Criticism
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Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting
$60.00 Add to cartReaders step into the history of Modeline, the brand that revolutionized midcentury modern lighting. Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting unveils Bernie Roberts’s journey from a penniles… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764370286
- Language: English
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How to Watch a Movie
$24.00 Add to cartIn his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson–one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema–shows us how to get more out of watching any movie. Guiding us through
- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101910844
- Language: English
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Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, the Bottom Line
$44.95 Add to cartIn 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one c
- Author: Pepper, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1493080148
- Language: English
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids–Featuring the Author’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays
$20.99 Add to cart**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
From bui
“[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now.” –The Los Angeles Review of Books- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1639739289
- Language: English
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Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC
$39.95 Add to cartThe first history of the fanzines that emerged from Washington, DC’s highly influential punk community
DIY culture has always been at the heart of DC’s thriving punk community. As Washington, DC’s punk
- Author: Davis, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126355
- Language: English
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David Bowie. the Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartFirst advertised as a “mind-stretching experience,” Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only h
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 21 2024
- ISBN10: 3836593165
- Language: Multiple Languages
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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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Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema
$45.00 Add to cartA visual exploration of cyberpunk and its global impact and lasting influence on cinema culture
Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, first appeared in the early 1980s and uniquely captured the anx
- Author: Berger, Doris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811310
- Language: English
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America, 1935-1944
$49.95 Add to cartThe legacy of denim in America, as seen through early FSA photographs of “blue collar” workers
There is perhaps no other fabric so inextricably associated with a country as is denim with the United Sta
- Author: Marsh, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1909526975
- Language: English
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Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$38.00 Add to cartThis 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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The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930
$60.00 Add to cartA revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and more
From 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issue
- Author: Weisenfeld, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1736863347
- Language: English
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I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
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History of Press Graphics. 1819-1921
$80.00 Add to cartIn today’s world of instant snapshots, 24-hour news, and round-the-clock connectivity, an illustrated press where the images are as important as the text has become an increasingly rare art form. This
- Author: Roob, Alexander
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 3836507862
- Language: English
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The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook: The Von Trapp Children and Their Photographs and Memorabilia
$34.95 Add to cartThe Sound of Music Family Scrapbook celebrates one of the best-loved musicals of all time, and the seven actors who played the Von Trapp children. It’s filled with their recollections of that magical
- Series: Y
- Author: Bronson, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1787391787
- Language: English
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The Essentials: 52 Must-See Movies and Why They Matter
$26.99 Add to cartShowcasing 52 Essential films from the silent era through the 1980s, Turner Classic Movies invites you into a world filled with stirring performances, dazzling musical numbers, and bold directorial vi… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Arnold, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 0762459468
- Language: English
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Chocolate and Cheese
$14.95 Add to cartWeen now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early ’90s, their longevity wasn’t so secure. Nearly two decades on, though, Aaron “Gene W
- Series: 33 1/3 #79
- Author: Shteamer, Hank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0826431178
- Language: English
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A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic
$29.95 Read more“The definitive book about Bob Clark’s 1983 classic holiday film.” — Parade
A delightful gift book with rare and previously unreleased photographs, behind-the-scenes insight, and interviews with the
- Author: Gaines, Caseen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1770411402
- Language: English
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Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story
$50.00 Add to cartExperience the passion and drama of the world’s greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide.
Immerse yourself in more than 400 years of the world’s most celebrated operas and discov- Author: Riding, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056314
- Language: English
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Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
$15.95 Add to cartWhen it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algor
- Author: Fry, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357368
- Language: English
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Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
$26.99 Add to cartThe definitive oral history of heavy metal, Louder Than Hell by renowned music journalists Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman includes hundreds of interviews with the giants of the movement, conducte
- Author: Wiederhorn, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 29 2014
- ISBN10: 0061958298
- Language: English
