History & Criticism
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The Antiracist Theatre: Crafting Theatrical Collaboration
$24.95 Read moreA how-to guide for theatermakers who want freedom from white supremacy in their creative practices
The Antiracist Theatre offers readers the tools and foundational philosophy to create their own antir
- Author: Brewer, Nicole M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888906026
- Language: English
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It Starts with Anger: A Punk Beginning. an Afropunk Ending.
$32.00 Read moreFrom the award-winning filmmaker and graphic novelist, comes the untold origin story of the multi-million-dollar AFROPUNK festival–beginning not with big stages or brand sponsorship, but with one mix… [more below]
- Author: Spooner, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0593701380
- Language: English
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Violent Femmes’ Violent Femmes
$14.95 Add to cartThrough rare access to the Violent Femmes and their archives, this book investigates the creation of such iconic songs as “Blister in the Sun”, “Kiss Off”, “Add it Up” and “Prove My Love”, as well as
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Brown, Nic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765133514
- Language: English
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King Kong: The History of a Movie Icon
$44.95 Add to cartThe 1933 KING KONG was not just a terrifying monster movie. It was also an epic fairy tale, a tragic love story, and a landmark piece of cinema that introduced one of the most beloved characters in mo
- Author: Morton, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 02 2026
- ISBN10: 149307637X
- Language: English
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Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
$17.95 Read moreA historian and Bram Stoker Award nominee traces the birth of modern horror movies and literature back to World War I, exploring how the conflict influenced H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, and other arti… [more below]
- Author: Poole, W. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092668
- Language: English
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Outlander and Scotland: Touchstones and Signposts
$28.95 Add to cartWhat is the ‘Outlander Effect’?
How does Outlander shape understanding of clan identity and Jacobite allegiance?
How does the series balance modern feminist perspectives with historical realities?
How do
- Author: Maley, Willy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1804253340
- Language: English
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Stiff Little Fingers’ Inflammable Material
$14.95 Read moreSituating the band and its groundbreaking debut within the context of The Troubles, this book explores the band’s complicated and controversial relationship with the Belfast punk scene, a scene that a
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Dunn, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765133248
- Language: English
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Search & Destroy: The Complete Archive
$24.95 Read moreThe collected run of the groundbreaking and iconoclastic zine.
From 1977 to 1979, Search & Destroy chronicled the birth of San Francisco’s punk scene with an intensity and vision that transformed musi- Author: Vale, V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1965874266
- Language: English
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Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting
$60.00 Add to cartReaders step into the history of Modeline, the brand that revolutionized midcentury modern lighting. Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting unveils Bernie Roberts’s journey from a penniles… [more below]
- Author: Ferrell, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0764370286
- Language: English
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How to Watch a Movie
$24.00 Add to cartIn his most inventive exploration of the medium yet, David Thomson–one of our most provocative authorities on all things cinema–shows us how to get more out of watching any movie. Guiding us through
- Author: Thomson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 1101910844
- 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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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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Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC
$39.95 Add to cartThe first history of the fanzines that emerged from Washington, DC’s highly influential punk community
DIY culture has always been at the heart of DC’s thriving punk community. As Washington, DC’s punk
- Author: Davis, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1647126355
- Language: English
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David Bowie. the Man Who Fell to Earth. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartFirst advertised as a “mind-stretching experience,” Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth stunned the cinema world. A tour-de-force of science fiction as art form, the movie brought not only h
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Duncan, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 21 2024
- ISBN10: 3836593165
- Language: Multiple Languages
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This Ain’t No Disco: The Story of Cbgb
$22.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1988 and out of print for decades, This Ain’t No Disco tells the real story of CBGB, the birthplace and incubator of American punk and new wave music. The Ramones, Blondie, Tel
- Author: Kozak, Roman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 9798989828333
- Language: English
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Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema
$45.00 Add to cartA visual exploration of cyberpunk and its global impact and lasting influence on cinema culture
Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction, first appeared in the early 1980s and uniquely captured the anx
- Author: Berger, Doris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1636811310
- Language: English
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Denim: The Fabric That Built America, 1935-1944
$49.95 Add to cartThe legacy of denim in America, as seen through early FSA photographs of “blue collar” workers
There is perhaps no other fabric so inextricably associated with a country as is denim with the United Sta
- Author: Marsh, Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1909526975
- Language: English
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Tim Burton: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$38.00 Add to cartThis new and updated edition covers the full life’s work of iconic director Tim Burton, including the Netflix phenomenon Wednesday and the start of development on Beetlejuice 2.
Tim Burton is one of- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0711292612
- Language: English
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The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930
$60.00 Add to cartA revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters, billboards, shop window displays and more
From 1928 to 1930, Tokyo publisher Ars issue
- Author: Weisenfeld, Gennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1736863347
- Language: English
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I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
