Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors by David Thomson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
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
Rockin' the City of Churches by Peter Millen
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Nowhere else in the world was the hysteria and euphoria created by The Beatles more frenzied than in Adelaide, South Australia where an estimated 300,000 people turned out to welcome them on their arrival on June 12, 1964.Building on the foundation laid by the Penny Rockets, the city's premier rock 'n' ...Show more
Movie Posters: The History of Cinema from the Origins to the Present by Richard Dacre
$89.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
This book focuses on some of the finest movie posters ever produced – some because of the originality of their design, others because of their success to withdraw attention and making a film seem unmissable. Through the posters of the 1930s and 40s we can relive the classic era of Hollywood, to the 1950 ...Show more
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello
$29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
"Fantastic". (Nick Hornby). "Beautifully written". (Sunday Times). "Truly remarkable". (Rolling Stone). Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Li ...Show more
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
$35.00 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
"Escribir sobre uno mismo es algo muy curioso. ...] Pero en un proyecto como este el escritor hace una promesa: mostrarle su mente al lector. Y eso es lo que he intentado hacer en estas p ginas." --Bruce SpringsteenEn 2009, Bruce Springsteen y la E Street Band actuaron durante el intermedio de la Super ...Show more
Anime Impact - The Movies and Shows That Changed the World of Japanese Animation by Chris Stuckmann; Ernest Cline (Contribution by); Alicia Malone (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
#1 Amazon New Release -- The life-changing power of AnimeA celebration of Anime: While many books on anime simply offer a list of "essential titles" and recommendations, Anime Impact goes deeper by showcasing the many voices of anime's biggest fans. You'll find many distinct stories that only each spec ...Show more
Hollywood in the Thirties by Daniel Kothenschulte
$79.95 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Tinseltown's golden era, illustrated: From Chaplin's last silent films to the colorful Wizard of Oz In the 1930s, the legendary City of Cinema moved from the silent era to the talking picture. It was a decade of pomp and excess in the motion picture capital, of glorious stardom and megalomaniac director ...Show more
How to Write One Song by Jeff Tweedy
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Category: Performing Arts
A ROUGH TRADE and PITCHFORK BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A guide to rediscovering the joys of creating that we all felt as children.'NEW YORK TIMES One of the century's most feted singer-songwriters, Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, digs deep into his own creative process to share his unique perspective about song-writing a ...Show more
A Book of Days by Patti Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith's singular aesthetic--inspired by her wildly popular Instagram. ONE OF THE B ...Show more
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Performing Arts
Lucinda Williams's rise to fame was anything but easy. Raised in a working-class family in the Deep South, she moved from town to town each time her father--a poet, a textbook salesman, a professor, a lover of parties--got a new job, totalling twelve different places by the time she was 18. Her mother s ...Show more