History & Criticism
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Please Please Tell Me Now: The Duran Duran Story
$18.99 Read moreLifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the bestselling author of Gold Dust Woman and Hammer of the Gods.
In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling r- Author: Davis, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 28, 2022
- ISBN10: 030684608X
- Language: English
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A Scene in Between (Revised Edition)
$29.99 Read moreA revised edition of this cult classic photographic exploration of 1980s music and fashion, alongside hundreds of never-seen-before photographs that will delight both fans of Sam Knee’s work and new m
- Author: Knee, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1800660162
- Language: English
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Hollywood Victory: The Movies, Stars, and Stories of World War II
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the Turner Classic Movies Library: Film and history buffs alike will enjoy this engrossing story of Hollywood’s involvement in World War II, as it’s never before been told.
Remember a time when a- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Blauvelt, Christian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0762499923
- Language: English
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Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles
$18.99 Read more“Excellent social history…an indispensable account of a time of beauty and terror.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
A modern epic of the battles between innocence and cynicism, joy and terror Los- Author: McKeen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1641605715
- Language: English
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Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation
$18.00 Read moreThe vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth century
In 1911, famed c
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159141
- Language: English
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The Last Days of Letterman
$29.99 Add to cartOn May 20, 2015, Dave said, “Thank you and goodnight.” The Foo Fighters sang “Everlong,” and Late Show with David Letterman ended its run. The final six weeks of the series had guests like Julia Rober
- Author: Ryan, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 1949024008
- Language: English
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The Story of Motown
$17.95 Read more- In 2018, ITV Studios and Reelz will release a documentary about the Supremes on which Peter Benjaminson will appear
- Also in 2018, CNN will broadcast a four-part series about Detroit in 1963. Benjaminso
- Author: Benjaminson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 13, 2018
- ISBN10: 1947856235
- Language: English
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The First Beverly Hillbilly: The Untold Story of the Creator of Rural TV Comedy
$19.99 Add to cartA warm and funny memoir written from a Midwestern perspective, Ruth Henning shares the story of her husband Paul’s rise from a scriptwriter on some of Kansas City’s earliest radio shows to the genius
- Author: Henning, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: May 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1942337051
- Language: English
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Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s Last Stand in Hollywood (Revised Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartOn the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in 1965 and 1966 an electrifying scene appeared out of nowhere, exploded into creativity, and then, just as suddenly, vanished. So much remarkable music, art, and so
- Author: Priore, Domenic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1908279907
- Language: English
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Detour
$18.62 Add to cartLong considered an unpolished gem of film noir, the private treasure of film
buffs, cinephiles and critics, Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour (1945) has recently earned
a new wave of recognition. In the words o- Series: BFI Film Classics
- Author: Isenberg, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1844572390
- Language: English
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The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers, and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
$19.00 Add to cartA phenomenal account, newly updated, of how twelve innovative television dramas transformed the medium and the culture at large, featuring Sepinwall’s take on the finales of Mad Men and Breaking Bad. … [more below]
- Author: Sepinwall, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 21 2013
- ISBN10: 1476739676
- Language: English
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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic
$19.99 Add to cart“Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s deft weave of social history and sharp entertainment reporting explains how [The Mary Tyler Moore Show] made the world safe for Lena Dunham” (Peter Biskind, author of Eas
- Author: Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 29, 2013
- ISBN10: 1451659229
- Language: English
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Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics: Hollywood’s Best Mistakes, Goofs and Flat-Out Destructions of the Basic Laws of the Universe
$18.99 Read moreIn this fascinating and humorous guide, author Tom Rogers examines the real science behind stunts, plots, and special effects without ruining the fun of your favorite, universe-breaking action movies.
- Author: Rogers, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1402210337
- Language: English
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Kim Jong-Il Production
$28.99 Add to cartAn Amazon Best of The Year Nonfiction Selection
Library Journal Top Ten Book of the Year The Extraordinary True Story of Kim Jong-Il’s kidnapping of the golden couple of South Korean Cinema, The Movi- Author: Fischer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1250054273
- Language: English
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Brainteasers for Broadway Geniuses: 500 Puzzlers to Perplex Even the Biggest Fans
$34.43 Add to cartFilichia presents brainteasers that require more than an ordinary knowledge of Broadway facts that will send even the most seasoned theater lovers looking for answers.
- Author: Filichia, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074954
- Language: English
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
$29.95 Add to cartThe Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophica… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #3
- Author: Irwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 28 2002
- ISBN10: 081269502X
- Language: English
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Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You
$14.95 Add to cart“Your Person Doesn’t Belong To You is a transformative work, immersed in the intermittence, light, and expansion of character as embodied and voiced by Jeanne d’Arc — who here is a composite of hist
- Author: Campos, Isabel Sobral
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: July 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0692150293
- Language: English
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Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History
$18.99 Add to cartIn an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo’s key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters
- Author: Gaddy, Kristina R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1324074485
- Language: English
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Feel Like Going Home: Portraits in Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll
$21.99 Add to cartThis vivid celebration of blues and early rock ‘n’ roll includes some of the first and most illuminating profiles of such blues masters as Muddy Waters, Skip James, and Howlin’ Wolf; excursions into t… [more below]
- Author: Guralnick, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0316332720
- Language: English
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Csny, and the Lost Story of 1970
$16.99 Add to cartSet against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals … [more below]
- Author: Browne, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: July 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0306820722
- Language: English
