History & Criticism
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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 Read moreAn 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
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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 Read moreThe 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
