History & Criticism
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The Star Wars Archives. 1999-2005
$116.67 Add to cartFrom the moment Star Wars burst onto the screen in 1977, audiences have been in equal parts fascinated and appalled by the half-man/half-machine hybrid Darth Vader. In 1999, creator George Lucas began
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 29 2025
- ISBN10: 383659823X
- Language: English
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Long Take
$24.95 Add to cartA multifaceted portrait of the great Japanese director
For years, Akira Kurosawa resisted writing about himself. “It would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies,” he said. “In other words, tak
- Author: Kurosawa, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1517903297
- Language: English
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Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle
$18.00 Read moreNewly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, Conquest of the Useless, the legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, one of his most revered and classic films
In 1982, the vi- Author: Herzog, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593832132
- Language: English
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Why Bob Dylan Matters, Revised Edition
$18.99 Add to cart“The coolest class on campus” – The New York Times
***Revised and updated with a new Afterword from the author.***
When the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. S
- Author: Thomas, Richard F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0062937987
- Language: English
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Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
$19.99 Add to cart“Smart and entertaining . . . Gefter shows why Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? hit the ’60s like a torpedo.” –NPR, Fresh Air
“Delicious.” –New York Times Book Review The behind-the-scenes story of a p- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1639736670
- Language: English
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They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America’s Obsession with Guns and Outlaws
$29.95 Add to cartA deep dive into the grit and glamor of America’s favorite criminal couple and the nation’s love affair with guns.
On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and B- Author: Ellis, Kirk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369375
- Language: English
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Plunderphonics
$19.95 Add to cartFeaturing interviews with John Oswald, Negativland, and others and drawing on a wealth of research on copyright and intellectual property, Plunderphonics explores the impact of a genre that made illeg
- Series: Genre: A 33 1/3
- Author: Blackwell, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765119488
- Language: English
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Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation
$18.99 Add to cart“Filled with hilarious stories and sweet observations, Welcome to Pawnee is a book for any Parks and Rec fan. It’s funny and straight from the heart. Jim did a great job of not Jerry-ing this book.” –
- Author: O’Heir, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 006329351X
- Language: English
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Futuristic: Rockets, Robots and Rayguns of Space Age Pop Culture
$49.95 Add to cartBlast off to the Space Age, when the future was always bright! Futuristic is a full-color hardcover about a time of limitless possibilities… and anxieties. It covers all aspects of 1950s and ’60s po… [more below]
- Author: Voger, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1605491276
- Language: English
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Bending the Rules: Fashion Beyond the Binary
$29.95 Add to cartBending the Rules is a fascinating, provocative, and highly entertaining visual exploration of identity and gender through fashion.
Celebrated costume designer Camille Benda seamlessly weaves together- Author: Benda, Camille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1797227610
- Language: English
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Graphic Design. 1890-Today
$23.33 Add to cartThrough the turbulent events of the last century-and-a-half, graphic design–with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea–has distilled the spirit of each age. It surrounds us every minute of the
- Author: Müller, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 11 2025
- ISBN10: 375440024X
- Language: English
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Grandma’s Story
$9.99 Add to cartThe storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories … [more below]
- Series: Portals
- Author: Minh-Ha, Trinh T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1068591803
- Language: English
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Zoinks!: The Spooky Folklore Behind Scooby Doo
$14.99 Add to cartThis is Zoinks!, the critically-acclaimed book all about Scooby-Doo by acclaimed folklorist and podcaster Mark Norman. Recognised internationally for his expertise in folklore and known by many for hi
- Author: Norman, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 17 2024
- ISBN10: 072235195X
- Language: English
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Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, the Bottom Line
$44.95 Add to cartIn 1974, when young music promoters Allan Pepper and Stanley Snadowsky opened their night club the Bottom Line in an industrial area of Greenwich Village that was all but deserted after 6 pm, no one c
- Author: Pepper, Allan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1493080148
- Language: English
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Cult Sneakers: Discover the Stories of the Most Iconic & Rare Designs
$60.00 Add to cartDiscover the legendary stories behind the most iconic sneakers, brands and collaborations in history with social media sensation Tonton Gibs.
Discover the legendary stories behind the most iconic sne- Author: Gibs, Tonton
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1788406303
- Language: English
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Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell
$14.95 Add to cartUpon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Mayward, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765132760
- Language: English
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The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids–Featuring the Author’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Essays
$20.99 Add to cart**From the Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism ** Now Updated with New Material**
From bui
“[Lange] might be the most influential design critic writing now.” –The Los Angeles Review of Books- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1639739289
- Language: English
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Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025
$23.00 Add to cart“A. S. Hamrah’s writing on film is a delight. . . . Like all the best criticism, his writing makes art and life feel less lonely.” –Elif Batuman
“Unerring” (Bookforum), “hilarious” (Dana Spiotta), “ou
- Author: Hamrah, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1953813186
- Language: English
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The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear
$18.95 Add to cartForeword by John Russo
Updated and Expanded with a New Coda A provocative, fascinating, and compulsively readable account of one of the most shocking, influential, and successful films of all time, Th- Author: Segaloff, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0806541954
- Language: English
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Rush 1984 to 2015: Every Album, Every Song
$22.95 Add to cartThis volume is the companion book to Rush On Track 1973 – 1982. Fans who hoped that 1982’s keyboard heavy Signals had been a one off were to be disappointed. In line with their desire never to make th… [more below]
- Series: On Track
- Author: Richards, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1789523729
- Language: English
