History & Criticism
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Kubrick
$15.00 Add to cartKubrick is Michael Herr’s memoir of his nearly twenty-year friendship and collaboration with Stanley Kubrick, one of the greatest filmmakers of all time and the creator of such classics as Dr. Strange… [more below]
- Author: Herr, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 05 2001
- ISBN10: 0802138187
- Language: English
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Into the Dark: The Hidden World of Film Noir, 1941-1950
$40.00 Add to cartYou know film noir when you see it: the shadowed setting; the cynical detective; the femme fatale; and the twist of fate. Into the Dark captures this alluring genre with a cavalcade of compelling phot… [more below]
- Series: Turner Classic Movies
- Author: Vieira, Mark A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2016
- ISBN10: 0762455233
- Language: English
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The Science of Avatar
$21.99 Add to cartAudiences around the world have been enchanted by James Cameron’s visionary Avatar, with its glimpse of the Na’vi on the marvelous world of Pandora. But the movie is not entirely a fantasy; there is a
- Author: Baxter, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 2012
- ISBN10: 0316133477
- Language: English
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From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football
$34.95 Add to cartListen as you read! From Dixie to Rocky Top: Book Playlist, now on Spotify.
The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top- Author: Tipton, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0826506399
- Language: English
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Cinema Symbolism 3: The Mysteries of Occult Hollywood Unveiled
$38.95 Add to cartIt lives. Coming in at over 800 pages, everyone’s favorite Freemason strikes again with Cinema Symbolism 3: The Mysteries of Occult Hollywood Unveiled. Applying his expert and objective observations,
- Author: Sullivan, Robert W., IV
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 804
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0578806592
- Language: English
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Ginger Baker: Hellraiser: The Autobiography of the World’s Greatest Drummer
$16.99 Read moreThe music, the marriages, the polo, the drugs, the trans-Saharan trucking scheme–the drummer best-known for his work in Cream and his contributions to World Music tells his whole fascinating story Pe… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Ginger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: July 09 2010
- ISBN10: 1844549666
- Language: English
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Hole’s Live Through This
$14.95 Add to cartCourtney Love has never been less than notorious. Her intelligence, ambition and appetite for confrontation have made her a target in a music industry still dominated by men. As Kurt Cobain’s wife she
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Crawford, Anwen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1623563771
- Language: English
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The Sewing Circle: Hollywood’s Greatest Secret-Female Stars Who Loved Other Women
$12.99 Add to cartGreta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck–to name a few–maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male adm… [more below]
- Author: Madsen, Axel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1504008731
- Language: English
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Chronology of Classic Horror Films: The 1940s
$30.00 Add to cartAuthor Donald Willis continues his insights into horror film history with his new tome on the 1940s. Yes, we had vampires and
the Frankenstein Monster, mummies, a new villain-the Wolf Man, dark moody
- Author: Willis, Donald C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1644301318
- Language: English
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Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World
$79.95 Add to cart’50 years later, hip hop’s influence has never been stronger. This book is proof of that – a must have for collectors, artists, dreamers, and hip hop heads everywhere.’ – Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean), r
- Author: Boyd, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1838666222
- Language: English
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The Boston Jazz Chronicles
$19.95 Add to cartThere has always been more to music in Boston than the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Jazz, for example, dates to the early 1900s, but it was in the 1940s and 1950s that it truly sparkled. The Boston Jazz
- Author: Vacca, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0983991006
- Language: English
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Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film
$22.00 Add to cartIn this “dishy…superbly reported” (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller, Peter Biskind chronicles the rise of independent filmmakers who reinvented Hollywood–most notably Sundance founde… [more below]
- Author: Biskind, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 03 2005
- ISBN10: 0684862581
- Language: English
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Shakey: Neil Young’s Biography
$24.00 Add to cartNeil Young is one of rock and roll’s most important and enigmatic figures, a legend from the sixties who is still hugely influential today. He has never granted a writer access to his inner life – unt… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: May 13 2003
- ISBN10: 0679750967
- Language: English
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How to Stop Acting
$18.00 Add to cart“The Great Guskin” (John Lahr, The New Yorker) shares the approach he uses to help actors land roles, develop them, and keep them alive
Harold Guskin is an “acting doctor” whose clients include Kevin- Author: Guskin, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 25 2003
- ISBN10: 0571199992
- Language: English
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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder
$29.99 Add to cartThe first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder’s achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned
- Author: Ribowsky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0470481501
- Language: English
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Walking on the Moon: The Untold Story of the Police and the Rise of New Wave Rock
$30.99 Add to cartAn unflinching look at the rise of one of the most recognizable names in pop music -The Police
The Police have sold more than 50 million albums, made Rolling Stone‘s Greatest Artists of All Time list,
- Author: Campion, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0470282401
- Language: English
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Listen to This
$27.00 Add to cartOne of The Telegraph‘s Best Music Books 2011
Alex Ross’s award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing- Author: Ross, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0312610688
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
$34.50 Read moreFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever authorized biography of the most famous movie star of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Taylor.
No celebrit
- Author: Brower, Kate Andersen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0063267470
- Language: English
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Answers in the Form of Questions: A Definitive History and Insider’s Guide to Jeopardy!
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the smartest, most celebrated game show of all time? In this insider’s guide, discover the rich history of Jeopardy!–the quiz show that has shaped our culture and challenged audiences for yea… [more below]
- Author: McNear, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1538702304
- Language: English
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Timon of Athens
$9.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of Timon of Athens from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
The real Timon of Athens lived there- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1982164948
- Language: English
