History & Criticism
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Cinema Symbolism 2: More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies
$32.95 Add to cartFinally The much anticipated sequel to Cinema Symbolism is here Cinema Symbolism 2: More Esoteric Imagery in Popular Movies explores the hidden symbolism and esoteric imagery in such movies as Crims
- Author: Sullivan, Robert W., IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 668
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0692847359
- Language: English
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Got a Revolution!: The Turbulent Flight of Jefferson Airplane
$25.99 Add to cartThe most successful and influential rock band to emerge from San Francisco during the 1960s, Jefferson Airplane created the sound of a generation. Their smash hits “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit… [more below]
- Author: Tamarkin, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 07 2010
- ISBN10: 0671034049
- Language: English
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Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead’s American Adventure
$22.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award-winning author Carol Brightman brings the Grateful Dead and their history to life in this fascinating and “cogent, intelligent look at the Dead and the structure of … [more below]
- Author: Brightman, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0671011170
- Language: English
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Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
$26.99 Add to cartA fully updated edition of David J. Skal’s Hollywood Gothic, “The ultimate book on Dracula” (Newsweek).
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the moder- Author: Skal, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 18 2004
- ISBN10: 0571211585
- Language: English
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Fosse
$16.95 Add to cartNow the FX limited series Fosse/Verdon starring Sam Rockwell and Michelle Williams with Lin-Manuel Miranda executive producing.
“Wasson is a smart and savvy reporter, and his book abounds with color- Author: Wasson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0544334612
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Music Guide
$48.00 Add to cartThe Cambridge Music Guide is for all those who love music and wish to know more about its colorful history, development and theory. Superbly illustrated, the Guide is a comprehensive tour of every asp… [more below]
- Author: Sadie, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 546
- Publish Date: April 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0521399424
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt
$33.00 Add to cartArvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called ‘tintinnabuli’ (Latin for ‘sounding bell… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
- Author: Shenton, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0521279100
- Language: English
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History of Film
$25.95 Add to cartIn this lively and up-to-date analysis, David Parkinson traces the evolution of the moving image from the earliest shadow shows to the digital filmmaking of the twenty-first century. Covering the key … [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Parkinson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0500204101
- Language: English
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Japanese No Masks: With 300 Illustrations of Authentic Historical Examples
$14.95 Add to cart120 full-page plates of magnificent, elaborately carved, museum-quality masks worn by actors playing gods, warriors, beautiful women, feudal lords, and supernatural beings. Captions.
- Series: Dover Books on Fine Art
- Author: Perzynski, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: June 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440141
- Language: English
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Hear Me Talkin’ to YA
$18.95 Read more“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.” — Charlie Parker
“What is jazz? The rhythm — the feeling.” — Coleman Hawkins
“The bes- Series: Dover Books on Music
- Author: Shapiro, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 01, 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217264
- Language: English
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes: From Science to the Supernatural, the Many Mysteries of Indiana Jones
$15.95 Add to cartCould you really use a bullwhip to swing across a chasm? Or rip out a man’s heart without killing him? At last, here is the book that finally answers the Indiana Jones-related questions that have trou… [more below]
- Author: Gresh, Lois H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0470225564
- Language: English
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
$18.95 Read moreIn the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made it such hot stuff? In her incisive history, Alice Ech
- Author: Echols, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 21 2011
- ISBN10: 0393338916
- Language: English
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French Cinema: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIt is often claimed that the French invented cinema. Dominating the production and distribution of cinema until World War 1, when they were supplanted by Hollywood, the French cinema industry encompas… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Andrew, Dudley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0198718616
- Language: English
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33 Revolutions Per Minute: A History of Protest Songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day
$25.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most prominent music critics writing today, a page-turning and wonderfully researched history of protest music in the twentieth century and beyond
Nowhere does pop music collide more dr
- Author: Lynskey, Dorian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: April 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0061670154
- Language: English
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From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
$27.99 Read more“From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and… [more below]
- Author: Meslow, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0063026295
- Language: English
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Cokemachineglow: Writing Around Music 2005-2015
$18.95 Read moreIrreverent, cultishly adored, and dearly missed, the music writers at cokemachineglow produced some of the greatest, weirdest, funniest, sharpest criticism of the 21st century, and have gone on to wri
- Author: Purdom, Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 1576879976
- Language: English
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Forbidden Beat: Perspectives on Punk Drumming
$20.00 Read moreWhether they’re self-taught bashers or technical wizards, drummers are the thrashing, crashing heart of our favorite punk bands. In Forbidden Beat, some of today’s most respected writers and musicians… [more below]
- Author: Lauden, S. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644282275
- Language: English
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Murder by Design: The Unsane Cinema of Dario Argento
$50.00 Add to cartThis book covers the films of Dario Argento, Italy’s acknowledged master of horror and suspense, has made a career out of exploring the macabre poetry of images of violent death. He did not, however,
- Author: Howarth, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1644301156
- Language: English
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Harp Making in Late-Georgian London
$72.99 Add to cartAt the end of the eighteenth century, after the French Revolution, the centre of pedal-harp making moved from Paris to London. There, building on the work of its Bavarian originators and Parisian deve
- Author: Baldwin, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: August 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1527265110
- Language: English
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Protest. Pictogram Activism
$24.95 Add to cartThe art of protest through an impressive collection of 400 downloadable copyright-free images with politically and socially engaged content that can be used in T-shirts, posters, fanzines, stationery,
- Author: Feliz, Un Mundo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 8417656332
- Language: English
