History & Criticism
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Incredibly Strange Films
$25.00 Add to cartIncredibly Strange Films is a functional guide to important territory neglected by the film-criticism establishment, spotlighting unhailed directors — Hershell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Larry Cohen, … [more below]
- Series: Re/Search #10
- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1889307114
- Language: English
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Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands & Music
$21.99 Add to cartKnown for The Fest, Less Than Jake and Hot Water Music, Gainesville became a creative hub in the 1980s and ’90s for many of punk rock’s greats.
Whether playing at the Hardback or wild house parties, ea
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Walker, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1626197679
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book
$20.99 Add to cartPaperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.
- Author: Cox, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 139
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 1581824343
- Language: English
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Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo
$29.99 Read moreThis entertaining history of Cuba and its music begins with the collision of Spain and Africa and continues through the era of Miguelito Vald?s, Arsenio Rodr?guez, Benny Mor?, and P?rez Prado. It offe… [more below]
- Author: Sublette, Ned
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1556526326
- Language: English
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Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
$41.00 Add to cartIt has been more than thirty-five years since Jimi Hendrix died, but his music and spirit are still very much alive for his fans everywhere. Charles R. Cross vividly recounts the life of Hendrix, from… [more below]
- Author: Cross, Charles R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 03 2005
- ISBN10: 1401300286
- Language: English
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Andy Griffith Show Book
$19.95 Add to cartThe Andy Griffith Show was one of the most successful series in television history. It ranked among the top ten shows in the nation during each of its eight prime-time seasons, from 1960 to 1968. Over
- Author: Kelly, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0895870436
- Language: English
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The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir
$21.99 Add to cartFoster Hirsch’s Dark Side of the Screen is by far the most thorough and entertaining study of the themes, visual motifs, character types, actors, directors, and films in this genre ever published. Fro… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 25 2008
- ISBN10: 0306817721
- Language: English
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You Never Give Me Your Money: The Beatles After the Breakup
$18.99 Add to cart“Peter Doggett’s book about the Beatles’ split is a real page-turner.” — Annie Lennox
“Enthralling… Impossible to put down.” — The Independent
Acclaimed journalist Peter Doggett recounts the previ
- Author: Doggett, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0061774189
- Language: English
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Speak in Tongues: An Oral History of Cleveland’s Infamous DIY Punk Venue
$16.95 Read more- Series: Scene History
- Author: Sandy, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1648410642
- Language: English
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Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design
$35.00 Read more- Author: Llach, Daniel Cardoso
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1954081340
- Language: English
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Michael Curtiz: A Life in Film
$30.00 Read moreAcademy Award–winning director Michael Curtiz (1886–1962) — whose best-known films include Casablanca (1942), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), Mildred Pierce (1945) and White Christmas (1954) — was in
- Series: Screen Classics
- Author: Rode, Alan K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 712
- Publish Date: February 16 2021
- ISBN10: 0813180430
- Language: English
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The Birth of the Bakersfield Sound: A Honky Tonk Attitude
$17.99 Add to cartLawton Jiles is a charter member of the Bakersfield Country Music Museum who led Buck Owens’ band in 1961 and 1962. He is a singer/songwriter who has had songs recorded by T. Texas Tyler, Patsy Cline,
- Author: Jiles, Lawton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1948282518
- Language: English
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It’s a Wonderful Life: A Memory Book
$37.95 Add to cartPaperback release of 2003 holiday bestseller which offers behind the scenes info on this holiday classic as well as current info on stars from the show.
- Author: Cox, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 15 2005
- ISBN10: 163026363X
- Language: English
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Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead
$14.95 Read moreReleased in 1970, Workingman’s Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold-water-shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late ’60s. It was the band’s most commercially and
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Poole, Buzz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1628929243
- Language: English
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Sinatra! the Song Is You: A Singer’s Art
$26.99 Read moreFrank Sinatra was the greatest entertainer of his age, invigorating American popular song with innovative phrasing and a mastery of drama and emotion. Drawing upon interviews with hundreds of his coll… [more below]
- Author: Friedwald, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 161373770X
- Language: English
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Why the Grateful Dead Matter
$22.95 Add to cartIn Why the Grateful Dead Matter, veteran writer and lifelong Deadhead Michael Benson argues that the Grateful Dead are not simply a successful rock-and-roll band but a phenomenon central to American c… [more below]
- Author: Benson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1611688515
- Language: English
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Punk Rock: An Oral History
$24.95 Add to cartWith its own fashion, culture, and chaotic energy, punk rock boasted a do-it-yourself ethos that allowed anyone to take part. Vibrant and volatile, the punk scene left an extraordinary legacy of music
- Author: Robb, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: July 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1604860057
- Language: English
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Can You Feel the Silence?: Van Morrison: A New Biography
$24.99 Read moreThis groundbreaking biography of a brilliant but disturbed performer explores the paradox of the man and the artist. Based on more than 100 interviews, this intelligent profile explores Morrison’s roo… [more below]
- Author: Heylin, Clinton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1556525427
- Language: English
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Björk’s Homogenic
$14.95 Add to cartIn recent years, Bj rk’s artistry has become ever more ambitious and ever more respected. With the release of her conceptual app-album Biophilia in 2011, and a huge retrospective exhibition at New Yor… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: MacKay, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1501322745
- Language: English
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You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt’s Creek and the Legacy of Queer Television
$39.00 Add to cartFrom its modest beginnings to its massive Emmy sweep, You Are My Happy Ending tells the story of how Schitt’s Creek became the surprise hit that changed the way we think about LGBTQ relationships.
Aut… [more below]
- Author: Garside, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: January 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1493067974
- Language: English
