Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of the Doors by Mick Wall
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
Think you know the story of Jim Morrison and The Doors? This revelatory and explosive biography from critically acclaimed rock journalist Mick Wall will make you think again. In 1971, Jim Morrison was found dead in a club toilet in Paris. He was 27 years old. Since then, The Doors have been the subject ...Show more
Foo Fighters - Learning to Fly by Mick Wall
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Category: Music
Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legendary Foo Fighters. The question is: why? Musical depth? Not really. Major success? Well, yes. Despite no longer shifting albums in the same quantity as they di ...Show more
Turner Classic Movies Presents Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide - From the Silent Era Through 1965: Third Edition by Leonard Maltin
$40.00 AUD
Category: Film
The definitive guide to classic films from one of America's most trusted film critics Thanks to Netflix and cable television, classic films are more accessible than ever. Now co-branded with Turner Classic Movies, "Leonard Maltin s Classic Movie Guide"covers films from Hollywood and around the world, fr ...Show more
Ballet by Henry Leutwyler
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Category: Performing Arts
After four years of collaboration with Peter Martins and the "New York City Ballet", Henry Leutwyler was granted unprecedented backstage access to the Company during the winter of 2012. The resulting book, "Ballet", reflects thirty years of his passion for the art form, realised in thirty days of photog ...Show more
Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from Eighties Movies (and Why We Don't Learn Them from Movies Any More) by Hadley Freeman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Film
Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever. For Hadley Freeman, American moves of the 1980s have simply got it all. Comedy in Three Men and a Baby, Hannah and Her Sisters ...Show more
The Ballet Lover's Companion by Zoe Anderson
$63.00 AUD
Category: Theatre
This engaging book is a welcome guide to the most successful and loved ballets seen on the stage today. Dance writer and critic Zoe Anderson focuses on 140 ballets, a core international repertory that encompasses works from the ethereal world of romantic ballet to the edgy, muscular works of modern chor ...Show more
Mapping Shakespeare's World by Peter Whitfield
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Category: Theatre
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he - and ...Show more
Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations by Greil Marcus
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Category: Music | Series: William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Ci
Greil Marcus has been one of the most distinctive voices in American music criticism for over forty years. His books, including "Mystery Train "and "The Shape of Things to Come, " traverse soundscapes of folk and blues, rock and punk, attuning readers to the surprising, often hidden affinities between t ...Show more
Arguments with England by Michael Blakemore
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Category: Theatre
'This beautifully written book by the director Michael Blakemore puts most such volumes to shame. It is full of both sharp insights and sudden shafts of wisdom. Often wonderfully funny, it is also touching and painfully honest. By the time you have finished Arguments with England, the author feels like ...Show more
Classical Music Encyclopedia by Stanley Sadie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: Definitive Encyclopedias
The Classical Music Encylopedia, now fully updated, traces the development of Western music from medieval times through to the twenty-first century. Each chapter begins with an Introduction to the era, followed by an A to Z of the key composers and musicians of the era, with an expert's recommended reco ...Show more
Raymond Cauchetier's New Wave by Raymond Cauchetier
$130.00 AUD
Category: Film
In the late 1950s and early 1960s French New Wave cinema exploded onto international screens with films like Les quatre cents coups, A bout de souffle and Jules et Jim. They were radical, artistic, original and most importantly set up the director as a creative genius; at the forefront were Francois Tru ...Show more