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Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$33.00 AUD
Category: Film
In little more than a century of cinema - Birth of a Nation was one hundred years old in 2015 - our sense of what a film director is, or should be, has shifted in fascinating ways. A director was once a functionary; then an important but not decisive part of an industrial process; then accepted as the p ...Show more
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance (HB) by David McAllister with Amanda Dunn
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a story of courage to fight against the odds for your passion and succeed. David McAllister has always belonged onstage. As the middle child in a Catholic family who knew nothing about dance, he watched himself twirl in the reflective gl ...Show more
Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge ...Show more
Kristian Fredrikson: Designer by Michelle Potter
$59.95 AUD
Category: Theatre
Multi-discipline designer Kristian Fredrikson was an extraordinary influence in Australian Dance, Opera and Drama. His collaborations with Graeme Murphy saw scenes of unleashed imagination, breathtaking beauty and impeccable craftsmanship, pulsing with human emotion. Memories of Kristian's sets and cost ...Show more
Stranger Than Kindness by Nick Cave
$60.00 AUD
Category: Music
Stranger Than Kindness is a journey in images and words into the creative world of musician, storyteller and cultural icon Nick Cave. This highly collectible book contains images selected by Cave from 'Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition', presented by the Royal Danish Library in partnershi ...Show more
William Burroughs and the Cult of Rock and Roll by Casey Rae
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining how one of America's most controversial literary figures altered the destinies of many notable and varied musicians, William S. Burroughs and the Cult o ...Show more
David Bowie: Changes - A Life in Pictures 1947-2016 by Chris Welch
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
David Bowie: Changes \b0 is a celebration of the international figure all starry-eyed hopefuls aspired to be when setting out on a path to fame and fortune in the music industry - whether they know it or not. Through more than 150 stellar photos, it tells the story of an artist the likes of which we'd n ...Show more
Cinema: the Whole Story - The Whole Story (revised edition!) by PHILIP KEMP
$50.00 AUD
Category: Film
Cinema: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key time periods, genres and key works in world cinema. It places the burgeoning world of cinema in the context of social and cultural developments that have taken place since its beginnings. Organized chronologically, the book traces the evolution of ci ...Show more
Wagner's Parsifal - The Music of Redemption by Roger Scruton
$40.00 AUD
Category: Music
Wagner's last music-drama tells the story of Parsifal, the 'pure fool, knowing through compassion', who has been called to rescue the Kingdom of the Grail from the sins that have polluted it. The Grail is a symbol of purity in a world of lust and power, but although Parsifal is the culmination of Wagner ...Show more
The Australian Musical: From the Beginning by Peter Wyllie Johnston; Peter Pinne
$80.00 AUD
Category: Music
A definitive history of a century of musical theatre in Australia, including behind the scenes stories of achievement and disaster, fully illustrated in colour. Musical theatre has a special place in the hearts of Australians. Whether it is The Boy from Oz, Bran Nue Dae or Muriel's Wedding, we love to ...Show more
The Song Remains the Same: 800 Years of Love Songs, Laments and Lullabies by Andrew Ford; Anni Heino
$33.00 AUD
Category: Music
Often today, the word 'song' is used to describe all music. A free-jazz improvisation, a Hindustani raga, a movement from a Beethoven symphony, a Springsteen anthem or a Leonard Cohen ballad- they're all songs. But, in fact, a song is a specific musical form. It's not so much that they all have verses ...Show more
With Nails The Film Diaries of Richard E Grant by Richard E. Grant
$20.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Picador Classic
In the summer of 1986, when Richard E Grant was cast as the lead in Withnail and I, his whole world shifted and he was set firmly on the path to international stardom. With Nails is his outrageous, irreverent and brutally funny account of that time and the years afterwards, of his self-doubt and anxiet ...Show more