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Sub-Categories of Music & Performing Arts
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Ingmar Bergman
Robin Wood
Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers
Paperback
An expanded version of Robin Woods influential study of Ingmar Bergman, including new essays on the director. [more]
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New Essays on Clint Eastwood
Leonard Engel
Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism
Paperback
A companion to Engel's previous work, Clint Eastwood, actor and director: new perspectives, this volume includes some of the... [more]
$37.95 $34.15
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Guitar For Dummies
Jon Chappell, Mark Phillips
Music; Guitar; Techniques of music & music tutorials
Paperback
The bestselling music guide--now updated! Have you always wanted to learn to play guitar? Who wouldn't? Think of Jimi Hendrix... [more]
$29.95 $26.95
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The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument
David Schoenbaum
Music; String instruments
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The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. [more]
$47.95 $43.15
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Christopher Martin 'in the Middle of the Music': Memoir and Memories
Mary Ryllis Clark
Music; Biography: general
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On the day of his audition for the Royal College of Music in London, Christopher Martin was so nervous he walked into a lamp... [more]
$34.95 $31.45
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Sibelius: A Composer's Life and the Awakening of Finland
Glenda Dawn Goss
Music; 20th century & contemporary classical music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment; Autobiography: arts & entertainment; European history
Paperback
One of the twentieth century's greatest composers, Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) virtually stopped writing music during the last... [more]
$51.95 $46.75
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Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back
Harvey O'Brien
Film, TV & Radio; Film & movie: styles & genres; Documentary movies & films
Paperback
Action Movies: The Cinema of Striking Back is a study of action cinema, exploring the ethics and aesthetics of the genre with... [more]
$29.95 $26.95
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Masters of Light: Conversations with Contemporary Cinematographers
Dennis Schaefer, Larry Salvato
Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Film movie production: technical skills
Paperback
Through conversations held with fifteen of the accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working... [more]
$39.95 $35.95
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Trampled Under Foot: The Power and Excess of Led Zeppelin
Barney Hoskyns
Music; Music: styles & genres; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups
Paperback
What emerges is a compelling portrait of the four musicians themselves, as well as a fresh insight into close-knit entourage... [more]
$32.99 $29.70
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The Hollywood Survival Guide: For Aussie Actors
Kym Jackson
Theatre Studies; Films, movies & cinema; Other performing arts; Living & working abroad
Paperback
Actors so often have a feeling that they could be doing more for their career, but don't know where to begin. Asking others... [more]
$39.95 $35.95
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The Complete Puccini: The Story of the World's Most Popular Operatic Composer...
Colin Kendall
Music; Opera; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment
Paperback
? Looks at Giacomo Puccini through his operas [more]
$44.99 $40.50
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Elizabeth Taylor
Susan Smith
Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema
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The first in-depth academic analysis of Elizabeth Taylor's work in film. It examines her distinctive features as a performer... [more]
$29.95 $26.95
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Ethan and Joel Cohen
Ian Nathan
Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers
Paperback
An essential introduction to the world's greatest directing team - the Coen brothers. Ethan and Joen Coen is a comprehensive,... [more]
$12.95 $11.65
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Roman Polanski
David Ehrenstein
Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers
Paperback
An essential introduction to Roman Polanski, a French - Polish film director, producer, writer and actor, who stands as one... [more]
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Powell and Pressburger: A Cinema of Magic Spaces
Andrew Moor
Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger made a range of films, from The Spy in Black and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp... [more]
$29.95 $26.95
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George Lucas
Karina Longworth
Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers
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An essential introduction to one of the world's greatest directors - George Lucas. This richly illustrated guide includes... [more]
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The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe: The Shocking True Story
Keith Badman
Film, TV & Radio; Biography: arts & entertainment
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The Final Years of Marilyn Monroe features a deluge of stories of which even the most die-hard fan will be unaware. [more]
$17.99 $16.20
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The Castrato and His Wife
Helen Berry
Opera; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; History; Social & cultural history; Sociology: sexual relations
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The tale of Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci, 18th century castrato, celebrity, and heart-throb, and his elopement and love affair... [more]
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The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction
D. Kern Holoman
Music; Orchestras
Paperback
The Orchestra: A Very Short Introduction considers the structure, roots, and day-to-day functioning of the modern philharmonic... [more]
$13.95 $12.55
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One Direction: Breakout Boy Band
Marcia Amidon Leusted, Marcia Amidon Lusted
Individual actors & performers; Music; Autobiography: arts & entertainment
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Profiles the lives and careers of the members of popular boy band One Direction. [more]
$13.50 $12.15
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First Cut: Conversations with Film Editors
Gabriella Oldham
Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema
Paperback
Gabriella Oldham offers a series of interviews with 23 award-winning film editors who provide a full picture of the complex... [more]
$44.95 $40.45
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John Wayne: The Legend and the Man: An Exclusive Look Inside the Duke's...
The Estate of John Wayne
Photography & photographs; Photographs: collections; Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism
Hardback
Combining never-before-seen photographs culled from the family's vast personal archives with images from some of John Wayne's... [more]
$65.00 $58.50
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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did to Us
David Thomson
Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema
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Taking us around the globe, through time and across multiple media, the author tracks the ways in which we were initially... [more]
$49.99 $45.00
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A History of Opera: The Last Four Hundred Years
Carolyn Abbate, Roger Parker
Music; Opera
Hardback
Opera as an art form remains extraordinarily buoyant and challenging. Opera paints the human passions with astonishing power... [more]
$55.00 $49.50
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Variety: an Illustrated History of the World from the Most Important Magazine...
Brian Gott, Tim Gray
Theatre Studies; Film, TV & Radio
Hardback
An illuminating view of the world as seen through the tinted lens of Hollywood's most important chronicler of entertainment... [more]
$69.95 $62.95
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