History & Criticism
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First Floor Volume 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture
$20.00 Read moreFirst Floor started small. At first it was just a newsletter, an outlet where veteran electronic music journalist Shawn Reynaldo could write and share his ideas without having to contend with outside … [more below]
- Author: Reynaldo, Shawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1913231348
- Language: English
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Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy
$0.00 Read more“This is a fascinating book. It will educate you. Schwartzel has done some extraordinary reporting.” — The New York Times Book Review
“In this highly entertaining but deeply disturbing book, Erich Sc- Author: Schwartzel, Erich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1984878999
- Language: English
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Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
$150.00 Read moreAlastair Duncan’s Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury.
“For those who wish they could live- Author: Duncan, Alastair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0810980460
- Language: English
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Becoming Nick and Nora: The Thin Man and the Films of William Powell and Myrna Loy
$29.95 Read moreAs Nick and Nora Charles in the six Thin Man movies from 1934 to 1947, the team of William Powell and Myrna Loy showed that marriage didn’t have to mean the end of the romantic comedy. From the comedi
- Author: Kozlowski, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493062859
- Language: English
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Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser
$25.00 Read moreA surprising history of Seattle’s Sub Pop Records, pioneer of grunge . . . and champion of losers.
This book is a critical history of Sub Pop Records, the Seattle independent rock label that launched- Author: Attfield, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1789147069
- Language: English
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The Exotic Ones: That Fabulous Film-Making Family from Music City, USA – The Ormonds
$129.95 Read moreJune. Ron. Tim. Together they were the Ormond Organization, a Nashville mother-father-son trio who cranked out a wild bunch of movies, from Lash LaRue westerns to the stripper-gore-musical outrage The… [more below]
- Series: Nicolas Winding Refn Presents
- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1913051188
- Language: English
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Acting Naturally: The Magic in Great Performances
$30.00 Read moreFrom the celebrated film critic and author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, a fascinating look at some of the cinema’s finest actors and how they approach their craft
“Open to any page and- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 059331929X
- Language: English
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Jesus Christ Superstar: Behind the Scenes of the Worldwide Musical Phenomenon
$36.95 Read moreIn 1969, when Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice decided to write a rock opera about Jesus Christ, they had little idea they were about to embark on one of the most popular, boundary-pushing, and influe
- Author: Nassour, Ellis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1493068040
- Language: English
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Declassified: A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
$27.00 Read more“A refreshingly fun guide” that reads “as if you’re a fly on the wall in conservatory auditions, cutthroat competitions and the obsessive practice routines of professional musicians.” (The New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Warsaw-Fan Rauch, Arianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 059333146X
- Language: English
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Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
$16.00 Read moreA searching memoir of a life lived in the flicker of an action film, by the author of I Will Take the Answer
In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of th- Author: Monson, Ander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644452006
- Language: English
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The Great Psychic Outdoors: Adventures in Low Fidelity
$14.95 Read moreExplores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do.
Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very pec- Author: Monacelli, Enrico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420608
- Language: English
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The Sopranos Sessions
$22.00 Read moreIn The Sopranos Sessions, renowned television critics–and New York Times bestselling authors–Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall celebrate the 20th anniversary of one of the greatest television ser
- Author: Seitz, Matt Zoller
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1419742833
- Language: English
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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema
$27.00 Add to cartOne of the “Best Books of 2020” by NPR’s Book Concierge
**Your Favorite Movies, Re-Watched** New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author Lindy West was once the in-house movie critic for Seat- Author: West, Lindy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0316449822
- Language: English
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Lunacy: The Curious Phenomenon of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, 50 Years on
$24.95 Read moreAfter Syd Barrett departed Pink Floyd, the band that he had co-founded and fronted became a rudderless ship, releasing a series of nebulous (though highly inventive) jam albums and taking on touring e
- Author: Kruth, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493067168
- Language: English
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Sound of the Beast
$19.99 Add to cartThe definitive history of the first 30 years of heavy metal, containing over 100 interviews with members of Black Sabbath, Metallica, Judas Priest, Twisted Sister, Slipknot, Kiss, Megadeth, Public Ene
- Author: Christe, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2004
- ISBN10: 0380811278
- Language: English
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The New Designer: Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change
$29.95 Read moreHow to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world.
The choices made by designers have a significant effect on the world. Yet so much of the discourse on design focuses on aesthetics r- Author: Lima, Manuel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0262047632
- Language: English
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Tonight It’s a World We Bury: Black Metal, Red Politics
$14.95 Read more- Author: Peel, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1914420365
- Language: English
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Bone Music: Soviet X-Ray Audio
$34.95 Read moreStories of the secret underground Cold War-era Soviet music subculture that distributed forbidden music on used hospital x-rays.
During the Cold War era, the songs that Soviet citizens could listen to- Author: Coates, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689476
- Language: English
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Frightfest Guide to Vampire Movies
$24.95 Read moreFor centuries, mankind has been chilled by tales of vampires. A fixture of literature, art, and folk tales, the vampire was a natural early choice for a movie monster at the dawn of cinema and has rem… [more below]
- Series: Frightfest Guides #6
- Author: Thompson, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 191305120X
- Language: English
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The Thing
$15.95 Add to cartAn extra-terrestrial alien, capable of replicating any living form it touches, infiltrates an isolated research base in the Antarctic, and sows suspicion and terror among the men trapped there. Which
- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Billson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1839023597
- Language: English
