Music & Performing Arts - "You should be at Abbey's man. It's like... WOW!"

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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul in Music's Hometown

Robert Gordon

Music; Rock & Pop music

Hardback

Blues, being the wellspring of all American music for over a century, is always worth studying. Robert does it right. - Keith... [more]

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: An Art Book

Drawing & drawings; Music; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

Hardback

A beautifully produced collection of illustrations by Reinhard Kleist, capturing Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' thirty-year career... [more]

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Wonderland: Alice on Screen

Emma Mcrae, Alexandra He

Film, TV & Radio; Film movie guides & reviews

Hardback

Wonderland follows Alice's journey through her many cinematic appearances from 1930's silent Alice in Wonderland to the recent... [more]

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Marvels Avengers: Infinity War Hardcover Ruled Journal

Insight Editions

Film & movie: styles & genres; Graphic novels; Fiction-related items

Hardback

Assemble your heroic ideas and turn them into actions with this hardcover ruled journal inspired by the Avengers: Infinity... [more]

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Avengers Infinity War: Official Movie Special Collectors Edition

Titan

Film & movie: styles & genres; Fiction-related items

Hardback

Avengers: Infinity War The Official Collector's Edition is the perfect companion piece to the highly anticipated upcoming... [more]

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Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece...

Michael Benson

Film, TV & Radio; Film theory & criticism; Individual film directors, film-makers

Hardback

Synopsis coming soon....... [more]

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Star Wars: The Rebel Files

Daniel Wallace

Films, movies & cinema; Science fiction

Hardback

A repository of Alliance intelligence, The Rebel Files weaves together classified documents, intercepted transmissions, and... [more]

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Military Science of Star Wars

George Beahm

Individual actors & performers; Biography: arts & entertainment; Biography: historical, political & military; Biography: science, technology & engineering; Science fiction; History of engineering & technology

Hardback

George Beahm, a former U.S. Army major, draws on his experience to discuss the military science of the sprawling Star Wars... [more]

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Cinema in the Digital Age

Nicholas Rombes

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema

Paperback

This updated edition of Cinema in the Digital Age takes a fresh look at the state of digital cinema. It pays special attention... [more]

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Franz Liszt: Musician, Celebrity, Superstar

Oliver Hilmes

Music; Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

An engrossing new biography of the musical revolutionary who was the world's first international megastar [more]

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Anything You Can Imagine: Peter Jackson and the Making of Middle Earth

Ian Nathan

Individual film directors, film-makers; Fiction-related items

Hardback

The definitive history of Peter Jackson's Middle-earth saga, Anything You Can Imagine takes us on a cinematic journey across... [more]

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Much Ado About Nothing: Arden Performance Editions

William Shakespeare

Acting techniques; Individual actors & performers; Shakespeare plays

Paperback

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes... [more]

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Sinatra: The Chairman

James Kaplan

Music; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The Voice... [more]

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The Beatles Lyrics: The Unseen Story Behind Their Music

Hunter Davies, The Beatles

Music; Rock & Pop music; Musical scores, lyrics & libretti

Paperback

The first-ever collection of the original handwritten Beatles' lyrics. [more]

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Nevertheless: A Memoir

Alec Baldwin

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Autobiography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

A thorough and sophisticated effort to answer an interesting question: How did an indifferently raised, self-flagellating... [more]

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Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual

Nathan Abrams

Film, TV & Radio; Individual film directors, film-makers; Jewish studies

Hardback

Reexamines Stanley Kubrick 's work in the context of his ethnic and cultural... [more]

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Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood

J. E. Smyth (Professor of History, University of Warwick)

Film, TV & Radio; Film movie production: technical skills; Gender studies: women; Cinema industry

Hardback

The first comprehensive history of Hollywood's high-flying career women during the studio era, Nobody's Girl Friday covers... [more]

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All That Jazz: The Life and Times of the Musical Chicago

Ethan Mordden (freelance author)

Theatre Studies; Film, TV & Radio; Film & movie: styles & genres; Other performing arts; Musicals

Hardback

Author Ethan Mordden tells the full story of Chicago - a play, a silent film, a talkie remake, a musical, and a movie musical... [more]

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Hitler and Film: The Fuhrer's Hidden Passion

Bill Niven

Films, movies & cinema; History; European history; Second World War; Propaganda

Hardback

An expose of Hitler's relationship with film and his influence on the film industry [more]

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Stairways to Heaven: Rebuilding the British Film Industry

Geoffrey MacNab

Film, TV & Radio; Films, movies & cinema; Cultural studies; Cinema industry

Hardback

Essential guide to the resurrection of British film [more]

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Beatles '66: The Revolutionary Year

Steve Turner

Music; Music reviews & criticism; Rock & Pop music; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

It was the year their records were burned in America after John's explosive claim that the group was more popular than Jesus,... [more]

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First King of Hollywood

Tracey Goessel

Film, TV & Radio; Individual actors & performers; Film theory & criticism; Biography: arts & entertainment

Paperback

The first truly definitive biography of Douglas Fairbanks, the greatest leading man of the silent film era -- [more]

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Showbiz Politics: Hollywood in American Political Life

Kathryn Cramer Brownell

Films, movies & cinema; History; History of the Americas; Popular culture; Political science & theory

Paperback

Takes readers behind the camera to explore the negotiations and relationships that developed between key Hollywood insiders... [more]

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Movie Quotes for All Occasions: Unforgettable Lines for Life's Biggest Moments...

James Scheibli

Film, TV & Radio; Dictionaries of quotations; Popular culture; Trivia & quiz question books

Paperback

This one-of-a-kind collection of movie quotes and trivia spans over 100 years of cinema, and provides cinephiles of all ages... [more]

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Giant: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Edna Ferber, and the Making...

Don Graham

Theatre Studies; Individual actors & performers; Film theory & criticism; Biography: arts & entertainment

Hardback

A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of... [more]