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Yoko Ono :BEATLESYoko Ono :BEATLES
Best Price: $409.34
This books seems to get far less circulation than it deserves. No matter your opinion on Yoko,...
The BearThe BearThe Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of WinetastingThe Illustrated Winespeak: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Winetasting
Best Price: $10.00
Pompousness was never funnier! The snobbish lingo used to describe wines gets a taste of its own...
Bang on Target with Ronnie the RepBang on Target with Ronnie the RepPaul Pellicoro on Tango: The Definitive Guide to Argentine TangoPaul Pellicoro on Tango: The Definitive Guide to Argentine Tango


Untold Gold: The Stories Behind Elvis's #1 HitsUntold Gold: The Stories Behind Elvis's #1 HitsSearle's CatsSearle's Cats
Best Price: $12.79
The artwork is completely redrawn, and anyone who owns the original (1960s) book, should happily...
Really the BluesReally the Blues
Best Price: $13.18
Dance Band Era: The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing, 1910-50Dance Band Era: The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing, 1910-50
Best Price: $89.72
Charley Patton (Blues paperbacks)Charley Patton (Blues paperbacks)
Focused primarily on a detailed analysis of Patton's music, this book goes deeply into the...


Filming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers on Gender, Race and Sexuality in FilmFilming Difference: Actors, Directors, Producers and Writers on Gender, Race and Sexuality in Film
Best Price: $23.86
Addressing representation and identity in a variety of production styles and genres, including...
Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music)Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music)
Best Price: $23.80
The richly colored photographs capture the essence of "Austin City Limits" and are...
Mexico City in Contemporary Mexican CinemaMexico City in Contemporary Mexican Cinema
Best Price: $19.95
Just as Mexican national life has come to center on the sprawling, dynamic, almost indefinable...
Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television (Texas Film Studies Series)Living Room Lectures: The Fifties Family in Film and Television (Texas Film Studies Series)
With a breadwinner dad, a homemaker mom, and squeaky-clean kids, the 1950s television family has...
Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Super Market (American Studies Series)Pop Art and Consumer Culture: American Super Market (American Studies Series)

Electronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial AgeElectronic Eros: Bodies and Desire in the Postindustrial Age
The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has...
Pretty Pictures: Production Design and the History FilmPretty Pictures: Production Design and the History Film
Best Price: $25.00
Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the...
At Home With Beethoven: Four Piano Sonatas With Commentaries and PerformancesAt Home With Beethoven: Four Piano Sonatas With Commentaries and PerformancesPuzzles Old and New: How to Make and Solve ThemPuzzles Old and New: How to Make and Solve Them
Best Price: $92.00
Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of MadagascarOver the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
Best Price: $3.00
With wit, insight, and humor, Colleen McElroy tells of her journey to Madagascar for a Fulbright...

Bridge with the Blue Team (Master Bridge Series)Bridge with the Blue Team (Master Bridge Series)
Best Price: $18.04
One of the great classics of bridge, this book explains how one of the most...
Tono-BungayTono-Bungay
Best Price: $6.90
A highly imaginative satire of the business and advertising worlds, starring a hapless scientist...
Little Caesar (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)Little Caesar (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)
Best Price: $0.58
This was a quick comic book read, told in journalistic face paced sparse style. It's about...
Milton Babbitt: Words about Music (Madison Lectures)Milton Babbitt: Words about Music (Madison Lectures)
Best Price: $50.00
Milton Babbitt is the most intelligent and articulate of the serialist propagandists. He is very...
Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Wisconsin Studies in Film)Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Wisconsin Studies in Film)

The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
Best Price: $59.97
From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan....
A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin Studies in Film)A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
Extremely well written, I really enjoy reading this book very much. The subject matter is no...
Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen MysteryMurder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery
Best Price: $14.14
The flaws in this book are already well documented so I won't go into them except to say...
Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (Wisconsin Film Studies)Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (Wisconsin Film Studies)
Best Price: $74.13
Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick...
Bridge with the Blue Team (Master Bridge Series)Bridge with the Blue Team (Master Bridge Series)
Best Price: $18.04
One of the great classics of bridge, this book explains how one of the most...

Tono-BungayTono-Bungay
Best Price: $6.90
A highly imaginative satire of the business and advertising worlds, starring a hapless scientist...
Little Caesar (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)Little Caesar (Wisconsin / Warner Bros. Screenplays)
Best Price: $0.58
This was a quick comic book read, told in journalistic face paced sparse style. It's about...
Milton Babbitt: Words about Music (Madison Lectures)Milton Babbitt: Words about Music (Madison Lectures)
Best Price: $50.00
Milton Babbitt is the most intelligent and articulate of the serialist propagandists. He is very...
Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Wisconsin Studies in Film)Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Wisconsin Studies in Film)The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
Best Price: $59.97
From the late 1920s through World War II, film became a crucial tool in the state of Japan....

A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin Studies in Film)A History of the French New Wave Cinema (Wisconsin Studies in Film)
Extremely well written, I really enjoy reading this book very much. The subject matter is no...
Murder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen MysteryMurder in Hollywood: Solving a Silent Screen Mystery
Best Price: $14.14
The flaws in this book are already well documented so I won't go into them except to say...
Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (Wisconsin Film Studies)Depth of Field: Stanley Kubrick, Film, and the Uses of History (Wisconsin Film Studies)
Best Price: $74.13
Director of some of the most controversial films of the twentieth century, Stanley Kubrick...
Puzzles Annual (Readers Digest)Puzzles Annual (Readers Digest)The Merchant of Dreams: A Biography of Louis B. MayerThe Merchant of Dreams: A Biography of Louis B. Mayer
Presents the story of the most influential man of Hollywood's golden era, Louis Mayer, who...

Neil Young: The "Rolling Stone" FilesNeil Young: The "Rolling Stone" Files
Interviews, articles, reviews and trivia chronicle a career which has defied categorization....
Inside the Wicker ManInside the Wicker Man
Best Price: $83.85
Sorry, that was a Jack Jones title... An invaluable book. I had to get my copy from Amazon UK,...
Ian DuryIan Dury
Best Price: $19.00
Vincent Price: A Daughter's BiographyVincent Price: A Daughter's BiographyThe Tracks of My YearsThe Tracks of My Years

Mr S - the Last Word of Frank SinatraMr S - the Last Word of Frank SinatraSpandau BalletSpandau BalletBeadle's AboutBeadle's AboutThe Language of New Media (Leonardo Books)The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books)
Best Price: $18.03
The language of the book is unneccessarilly opaque, and in it's attempts to tie the...
Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary After Film (Electronic Culture: History, Theory, and Practice)
Throughout the history of cinema, a radical avant-garde has existed on the fringes of the film...

Faith and Fiction: Creative Process in Greene and MauriacFaith and Fiction: Creative Process in Greene and MauriacFrench Chansons of the Sixteenth CenturyFrench Chansons of the Sixteenth Century
Best Price: $29.50
The advent of music printing in the 16th century generated new life in the French chanson, a...
Maria Malibran: A Biography of the SingerMaria Malibran: A Biography of the Singer
This extraordinarily vivid book is rapidly gaining a legendary status of its own to match that...
Sir John Vanbrugh: The Playwright As ArchitectSir John Vanbrugh: The Playwright As Architect
Best Price: $51.06
McCormick's study is the first to show the interrelation of Vanbrugh's seemingly...
Mass Dixit MariaMass Dixit Maria

Film and Politics in the Third WorldFilm and Politics in the Third World
Critical articles?most of them written by Third World writers?on leading figures and national...
Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950
Best Price: $28.95
Women's Film and Female Experience takes a fresh look at a wide range of popular...
Adventures on Prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell (Media and Society Series)Adventures on Prime Time: The Television Programs of Stephen J. Cannell (Media and Society Series)
Best Price: $84.50
Part of Praeger's Media and Society Series, this volume breaks new ground in television...
Hitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral VoiceHitchcock with a Chinese Face: Cinematic Doubles, Oedipal Triangles, and China's Moral Voice
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Silbergeld takes the three Chinese films Suzhou River, The Day the Sun Turned Cold, and Good Men...
The Totem Pole: An Intercultural HistoryThe Totem Pole: An Intercultural History
Best Price: $32.69
"The Totem Pole" is an excellent, lavishly illustrated history of totem poles as...

Singing NeanderthalsSinging Neanderthals
Best Price: $12.25
Fear not, dear reader. I'm not making the sounds of indecision. Nor have I forgotten the...
ToscaniniToscanini
Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) is the most famous operatic and symphonic conductor in history....
Robert Morley's Book of WorriesRobert Morley's Book of Worries
A humorous look at life's worries from the pen of a few funny actor and writer - and...
Star Turns: The Life and Times of Benny Hill and Frankie HowerdStar Turns: The Life and Times of Benny Hill and Frankie Howerd
Best Price: $91.76
A tribute to two British comedians.
Dancing with CatsDancing with Cats
Collection of photos and narrations depicting cats dancing with their human owners. Fun!

X-Mas Files Philosophy of ChristmasX-Mas Files Philosophy of Christmas
Best Price: $0.01
Stephen Law's The Xmas Files is an excellent and easy to read book of short philosophy...
The Pirates! In An Adventure With WhalingThe Pirates! In An Adventure With Whaling
Belay your search for a salty tale and batten on to this slender tome! The Pirate Captain takes...
Love, Light, and a Dream: Television's Past, Present, and FutureLove, Light, and a Dream: Television's Past, Present, and Future
Best Price: $28.44
Love, Light, and a Dream is a timely and provocative look at the medium of television as one of...
Seeing Spots: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Television Advertisements, 1952-1996 (Praeger Series in Political Communication)Seeing Spots: A Functional Analysis of Presidential Television Advertisements, 1952-1996 (Praeger Series in Political Communication)
Best Price: $105.95
For anyone who is interested in how politicians convey messages this book is imperative. By...
The American War Film: History and HollywoodThe American War Film: History and Hollywood
Best Price: $110.95
McAdams provides the first extensive synthesis of American and world history with the war film...

Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song:Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and American Song:
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Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, And American Song is a combination dual biography and musical...
Musical Theater and American CultureMusical Theater and American Culture
Best Price: $79.95
Though there have been many histories of the theater and specifically the theatrical musical,...
George Gershwin: A New BiographyGeorge Gershwin: A New Biography
Best Price: $26.76
I almost didn't finish this biography. The earliest part of the book, given over to a...
Programming Our Lives: Television and American IdentityProgramming Our Lives: Television and American Identity
Best Price: $12.75
In this timely examination of television and American identity, Cummins and Gordon take readers...
Chess and the Art of Negotiation: Ancient Rules for Modern CombatChess and the Art of Negotiation: Ancient Rules for Modern Combat
Best Price: $7.20
The less said about this potboiler, the better. It is clearly a vanity piece designed to...

Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and PoliticsConspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics
Best Price: $44.95
Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television and Politics provides a strong historical overview of...
The Movie Book of the Western (Studio Vista movie book)The Movie Book of the Western (Studio Vista movie book)
A collection of essays on the western genre from contributors to "Movie" Magazine. The...
Ealing Studios (Studio Vista Movie Book)Ealing Studios (Studio Vista Movie Book)Nature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and GuatemalaNature, Culture, and Big Old Trees: Live Oaks and Ceibas in the Landscapes of Louisiana and Guatemala
Best Price: $83.70
Big old trees inspire our respect and even affection. The poet Walt Whitman celebrated a...
Austin City LimitsAustin City Limits
Best Price: $18.24
Clifford Endres captures the musical, magical world of Austin City Limits in this photographic...

Indian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations' Voices Speak OutIndian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction: First Nations' Voices Speak Out
Best Price: $19.95
According to an early 1990s study, 95 percent of what college students know about Native...
Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic HistoryMusic in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic HistoryTheories of Cinema, 1945-1990Theories of Cinema, 1945-1990
A collection of essays on the principal ideologies in film studies.
Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films About the Vietnam War (Texas Film Studies Series)Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films About the Vietnam War (Texas Film Studies Series)
Best Price: $19.95
A COMPLETE BOOK, giving full detail of the most popular films produced on the vietnam era. It...
Whiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas Honky-TonkWhiskey River (Take My Mind): The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk
Best Price: $19.53
This book is enjoyable from start to finish. If you enjoy Texas music and have had enough of...

Menander and the Making of Comedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)Menander and the Making of Comedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Best Price: $24.50
Menander remains a mystery for most theater-goers. This work, carefully put together by two...
Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology (Media and Society)Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology (Media and Society)
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Nervous Laughter examines forty years of situation comedy, decade by decade, providing the first...
America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society (Contributions in the Study of Popular Culture)America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society (Contributions in the Study of Popular Culture)
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This book was exactly how they said it was going to be. One corner bent but still in excellent...
The Remote Control in the New Age of TelevisionThe Remote Control in the New Age of Television
Best Price: $50.00
Remote control tuning encourages a form of interactive television using a technology already...
Principal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film CinematographersPrincipal Photography: Interviews with Feature Film Cinematographers
Best Price: $106.85
I highly recommend this fine book. The author's roots can be traced back to Camp Willoway. I...

Harvesting Minds: How TV Commercials Control KidsHarvesting Minds: How TV Commercials Control Kids
Best Price: $69.88
Fox's book is a field researcher's report about the effects of Channel One on kids....
A Producer's Broadway JourneyA Producer's Broadway Journey
Best Price: $23.88
This book was filled with wonderful personal stories that make you feel as if you are right...
Deep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American MythosDeep Space and Sacred Time: Star Trek in the American Mythos
Best Price: $18.22
Wagner and Lundeen have added an important book to the growing repository of...
Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from EntertainmentMapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from Entertainment
Best Price: $26.50
Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment...
 

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