History & Criticism
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When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams
$25.00 Add to cartIncludes a bonus excerpt from Bob Greene’s forthcoming Late Edition: A Love Story
“There is something absolutely magical about Bob Greene’s voice.”–Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor, The Last Lecture Running- Author: Greene, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 12 2009
- ISBN10: 031237691X
- Language: English
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Funk: The Music, the People, and the Rhythm of the One
$28.00 Add to cartFunk: It’s the only musical genre ever to have transformed the nation into a throbbing army of bell-bottomed, hoop-earringed, rainbow-Afro’d warriors on the dance floor. Its rhythms and lyrics turned
- Author: Vincent, Rickey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0312134991
- Language: English
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Steve McQueen
$22.00 Add to cartSteve McQueen is one of America’s legendary movie stars best known for his hugely successful film career in classics such as The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, … [more below]
- Author: Eliot, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0307453227
- Language: English
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Elia Kazan: A Life
$32.95 Add to cartElia Kazan’s varied life and career is related here in his autobiography. He reveals his working relationships with his many collaborators, including Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Clifford Odets, Art… [more below]
- Author: Kazan, Elia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 860
- Publish Date: August 22 1997
- ISBN10: 0306808048
- Language: English
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Reading the Silver Screen: A Film Lover’s Guide to Decoding the Art Form That Moves
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes an indispensable analysis of our most celebrated medium, film.
No art form is as instantly and continuously g
- Author: Foster, Thomas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0062113399
- Language: English
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Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives
$15.99 Add to cartColm T ib n on Joni Mitchell – James Wood on The Who – Stacey D’Erasmo on Kate Bush – Daniel Handler on Eurythmics – Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders – Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other write
- Author: Terzian, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 23 2009
- ISBN10: 0061579742
- Language: English
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There’s a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of Arsenic and Old Lace
$29.93 Add to cartThere’s a Body in the Window Seat! is a detailed history of one of the most beloved American murder-mysteries and comedies, Arsenic and Old Lace.
- Author: Dennis, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493067850
- Language: English
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Honor Among Thieves: The Cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville
$20.00 Add to cartThe crosscurrents between the classic Hollywood cinema and France’s postwar cinema are rich in producing iconic imagery with philosophical resonance, and no filmmaker has immersed himself in this proj
- Author: Dickos, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1940625475
- Language: English
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1920s Fashion Sourcebook
$24.95 Add to cart‘There isn’t a more comprehensive source to Twenties fashion that I can think of … An absolute must for anyone interested in Twenties fashion or art deco’ Style High Club
‘A source of all the styles,
- Series: Fashion Sourcebooks
- Author: Fiell, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1787398870
- Language: English
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A New Philosophy of Opera
$29.99 Add to cartKnown as opera’s “disrupter-in-residence,” director Yuval Sharon has never adhered to the art form’s conventions. In his many productions in both the United States and Europe, he constantly challenges
- Author: Sharon, Yuval
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1631496867
- Language: English
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American Standard: Cheap Trick from the Bars to the Budokan and Beyond
$41.93 Add to cartThey’ve sold more than 20 million albums, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and they’re one of Homer Simpson’s favorite bands–but even today, fifty years after they first formed
- Author: Warner, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1493078062
- Language: English
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Depeche Mode’s 101
$14.95 Read moreDepeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Valle, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390325
- Language: English
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Pressure Drop: Reggae in the Seventies
$40.00 Add to cartPressure Drop chronicles reggae’s most tumultuous and influential decade. Beginning in 1970 and unfolding both in Britain and Jamaica, reggae flourished against a backdrop of political upheaval, gang
- Author: Masouri, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1913172848
- Language: English
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The SNL Companion: An Unofficial Guide to the Seasons, Sketches, and Stars of Saturday Night Live
$55.43 Add to cart“This is a comprehensive ticket to learning more about every aspect of the late-night comedy staple and its storied history.” – Library Journal
Television history was made on October 11, 1975, when a- Author: Tropiano, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1493072609
- Language: English
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One Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg
$35.00 Read moreOne Tough Dame: The Life and Career of Diana Rigg offers a sweeping portrait of the revered performer’s life and career. Deemed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1994, Diana Rigg … [more below]
- Series: Hollywood Legends
- Author: Pilato, Herbie J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1496837975
- Language: English
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Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered
$24.95 Add to cart- Author: Norman, Donald A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0262548305
- Language: English
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Dirty Real: Exile on Hollywood and Vine with the Gin Mill Cowboys
$25.00 Read moreThe story of how the movies assumed a gritty facade in the name of authenticity, with working actors transforming into artists, poets, painters, troubadours, and filmmakers–both on- and off-screen.
- Author: Stanfield, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: July 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148626
- Language: English
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Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War
$19.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES, NPR – WINNER OF THREE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS – Finalist for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction – A stirring account of how music bears witness … [more below]
- Author: Eichler, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 052556344X
- Language: English
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Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence
$38.65 Add to cartTorture porn, shock-for-shock’s sake, violence that doesn’t serve the plot, and characters you hate – what was going on in the 2000s in horror cinema? And why were audiences hungry for it? Millennial
- Author: Powers-Schaub, Ariel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1960721585
- Language: English
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When Rock Met Reggae: How the Cultural Crossover of Bob Marley, the Clash, the Specials and More Changed the Face of Rock Music
$41.93 Add to cartIn When Rock Met Reggae, Steven Blush takes a spirited, cross-genre perspective in this “illuminating chronicle” (Booklist) of the crossover of Jamaican, British, and American sounds that changed the
- Author: Blush, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1493074474
- Language: English
