Orlam by PJ Harvey, Polly Jean Harvey
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals, children's songs, chants and superstitions of the rura ...Show more
Alfred Hitchcock: Filmmaker and Philosopher by Mark William Roche
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Philosophical Filmmakers Ser.
Hitchcock was a masterful director, popular with audiences of all ages and critically acclaimed both during and after his unusually long career. What may have been sensed by many viewers but not fully articulated until now is the extent to which his works subtly engage philosophical themes- What is evil ...Show more
Long Players: Writers on the Albums That Shaped Them by Tom Gatti
$23.00 AUD
Category: Music
In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben Okri on Miles Davis to David Mitchell on Joni Mitchell, Sarah Perry on Rachmaninov to Bernardine Evaristo on Sweet Honey in the Rock. Part meditation o ...Show more
Paul Newman: Blue-Eyed Cool by JAMES CLARKE
$90.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Once, when asked how he'd like to be remembered, Paul Newman replied: "I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried. Tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being." As an actor who be ...Show more
Moonage Daydream: The Life & Times of Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie
$90.00 AUD
Category: Music
‘The closest we’ll ever get to a straight up Bowie autobiography — but who’d ever want anything straight-up from Bowie?’ – Rolling Stone. In 2002, David Bowie and Mick Rock created Moonage Daydream, the defining document of the life and times of Ziggy Stardust. Twenty years later, it remains the closes ...Show more
Melbourne on Film: Cinema That Defines Our City by Melbourne International Film Festival
$35.00 AUD
Category: Film
A collection of bold new writing capturing Melbourne's identity in cinema, Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is Australia's most revered celebration of cinema. It is one of the world's oldest and most storied film festivals, continuously running since 1952. MIFF's 70th edition will include a ...Show more
Sofia Coppola: Forever Young by Hannah Strong
$70.00 AUD
Category: Film
In the two decades since her first feature film was released, Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and unapologetically hyperfeminine aesthetic across a wide range of multimedia work. Her films explore untenable relationships and the euphoria and heartbreak these entail, a ...Show more
The Musical Human: A History of Life on Earth by Michael Spitzer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Music
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK'Full of delightful nuggets' Guardian online 'Entertaining, informative and philosphical ... An essential read' All About History' ... Extraordinary range ... All the world and more is here' Evening Standard 165 million years ago saw the birth of rhythm. 66 million years a ...Show more
Yeah Yeah Yeah - The Story of Modern Pop by Bob Stanley
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Category: Music
Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah tells the chronological story of the modern pop era, from its beginnings in the fifties with the dawn of the charts, vinyl, and the music press, to pop's digital switchover in the year 2000, from Rock Around the Clock to Crazy In Love. It was more than just music - it could ...Show more
Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop by Bob Stanley
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Category: Music
The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties.'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll ...Show more
Opera: The Definitive Illustrated Story by Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
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Category: Music
A sumptuously illustrated history of opera brought to life by stunning photography, following the same format as Ballet- The Definitive Illustrated HistoryExperience the passion and drama of the world's greatest operas with this sumptuously illustrated visual guide. Immerse yourself in more than 75 year ...Show more
Permanent Evolution - Selected Essays on Literature, Theory and Film by Yuri Tynianov; Ainsley Morse (Edited and Translated by); Philip Redko (Edited and Translated by); Daria Khitrova (Introduction by)
$90.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Cultural Syllabus Ser.
A key figure in the Russian Formalist school of literary theory, Yuri Tynianov sought to revolutionize--and liberate--thinking about literature and the other arts. Permanent Evolution gathers together for the first time Tynianov's seminal articles on literary theory and film.