History & Criticism
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You Keep Me Hangin on
$25.00 Add to cart- Author: Schweikart, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: July 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1450783090
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace
$14.95 Add to cartFor two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and film cameras rolled. Everyone there knew the event had the potent
- Series: 33 1/3 #84
- Author: Cohen, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 06 2011
- ISBN10: 1441148884
- Language: English
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The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy
$26.00 Add to cartA beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs’ grip on Europe’s historical and cultural imagination.
In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into e
- Author: Wolff, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1503635643
- Language: English
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K.D. Lang’s Ingénue
$14.95 Read moreCanadian performer k.d. lang broke new ground in the 1980s by blending the genres of punk and country, dubbed “cowpunk,” with her band, the Reclines. Despite Grammy-award-winning recordings and freque
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Stein, Joanna McNaney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 150138919X
- Language: English
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Japanese Cult Cinema: Films From the Second Golden Age Selected Essays & Reviews
$12.99 Add to cartJapanese Cult Cinema: Films from the Second Golden Age is a collection of film reviews and in-depth essays exploring some of the best from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.
During the period between t
- Author: Upton, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1399952277
- Language: English
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Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
$14.95 Read moreDusty in Memphis, Dusty Springfield’s beautiful and bizarre magnum opus, remains as fine a hybrid of pop and rhythm and blues as has ever been made. In this remarkable book, Warren Zanes explores his
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Zanes, Warren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 131
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0826414923
- Language: English
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Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon
$19.95 Read moreA behind-the-scenes look at the life of the most extraordinary martial artist of all time–Bruce Lee.
Bruce Lee: The Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon is a photographic catalog of all facets of thi- Author: Little, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 804844070
- Language: English
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Clapton’s Guitar: Watching Wayne Henderson Build the Perfect Instrument
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestselling author Allen St. John started off looking for the world’s greatest guitar, but what he found instead was the world’s greatest guitar builder.
Living and working in Rugby, Vi- Author: St John, Allen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0743266366
- Language: English
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From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film
$27.95 Add to cartAn essential work of the cinematic history of the Weimar Republic by a leading figure of film criticism
First published in 1947, From Caligari to Hitler remains an undisputed landmark study of the ric- Series: Princeton Classics #43
- Author: Kracauer, Siegfried
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: April 02 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191344
- Language: English
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Inside the Dream Palace
$15.95 Add to cartWinner of the Marfield Prize, National Award for Arts Writing
“Tippins tells riveting stories about the Chelsea’s artists, but she also captures a much grander, and more pressing, narrative: that of t- Author: Tippins, Sherill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334477
- Language: English
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The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records
$31.99 Add to cartNoted jazz author Ashley Kahn brings to life the behind-the-scenes story of Impulse Records, one of the most significant record labels in the history of popular music. “Kahn mingles engaging stories o… [more below]
- Author: Kahn, Ashley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393330710
- Language: English
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Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don’t Care
$40.00 Add to cartOne of the movies’ greatest actors and most colorful characters, a real-life tough guy with the prison record to prove it, Robert Mitchum was a movie icon for an almost unprecedented half-century.
Div- Author: Server, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 06 2002
- ISBN10: 0312285434
- Language: English
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The Bee Gees: The Biography
$40.00 Add to cartThe first narrative biography of the Bee Gees, the phenomenally popular vocal group that has sold more than 200 million records worldwide — sales in the company of the Beatles and Michael Jackson. Th… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, David N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0306820250
- Language: English
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The Apocalypse Now Book
$19.99 Add to cartThe making of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic, based on unprecedented access to his private archives
The movie took years to be filmed and edited, and was the subject of endless stories, rumors, and spec- Author: Cowie, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0306810468
- Language: English
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Scorsese by Ebert
$19.00 Add to cartRoger Ebert wrote the first film review that director Martin Scorsese ever received–for 1967’s I Call First, later renamed Who’s That Knocking at My Door–creating a lasting bond that made him one of
- Author: Ebert, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226182037
- Language: English
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Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock
$19.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller * Named one of Rolling Stone’s Best Music Books of 2018 * One of Newsweek’s 50 Best Books of 2018 * A Billboard Best of 2018 * A New York Times Book Review “New and Noteworthy” sel
- Author: Hyden, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062657135
- Language: English
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Arabic Typography: History and Practice
$59.95 Read moreAlthough Arabic is the third-most widely used script in the world, there is a lack of sound typographic literature. This publication is a multi-disciplinary reference work that combines the latest aca… [more below]
- Author: Nemeth, Titus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 3721210174
- Language: English
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“One Man Crazy … !” The Life and Death of Colin Clive; Hollywood’s Dr. Frankenstein
$30.00 Add to cartHe immortalized Henry Frankenstein in Hollywood’s Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, but his too-brief life was often a horror saga as well.
“One Man Crazy ” The Life and Death of Colin Clive is
- Author: Mank, Gregory W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: November 29 2018
- ISBN10: 1936168812
- Language: English
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Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartWhile Eric Burdon may be best remembered for his unforgettable vocals on the Animals’ platinum hit, “House of the Rising Sun,” this Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member has never stopped having adventure… [more below]
- Author: Burdon, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: August 15 2008
- ISBN10: 1560254483
- Language: English
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Massive Attack’s Blue Lines
$14.95 Read moreIn 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its mar
- Series: 33 1/3 #140
- Author: Bourland, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1501339699
- Language: English
