Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
WINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER "This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius." --QUESTLOVE. Equal parts biography, musicology and cultural history, Dilla Time chronicles the life and legacy of J D ...Show more
Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter by Lucy O'Brien
$45.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A pioneering biography re-evaluating the life and legacy of transcendent musician Karen Carpenter.When the Carpenters first toured Japan, a journalist mistakenly referred to Karen as the 'lead sister' of the band. This designation stuck and Karen liked it so much that she had a T-shirt custom-made with ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibi ...Show more
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - A Retrospective (33 1/3) by William L. Weir
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
In 1958, an anonymous group of overworked and under-budgeted BBC employees set out to make some new sounds for radio and TV. They ended up changing the course of 20th-century music. For millions of people, the work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was the first electronic music they had ever heard. Samp ...Show more
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott by Adam Barkman; Ashley Barkman; Nancy Kang
$146.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director s feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters examine ...Show more
Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape by P. Kuppers
$80.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade ...Show more
Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema by Warren Buckland
$153.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world, Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from Memento, Old Boy, and Run Lola Run, to the Infernal Affairs trilogy and In the Mood for Love.* Unites American 'independent' cinema, the European and Inter ...Show more
Herstories on Screen: Feminist Subversions of Frontier Myths by Kathleen Cummins
$57.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
From the late 1970s into the early 1990s, a generation of female filmmakers took aim at their home countries' popular myths of the frontier. Deeply influenced by second-wave feminism and supported by hard-won new access to governmental and institutional funding and training, their trailblazing films cha ...Show more
Horror International by Steven Jay Schneider (Editor); Tony Williams (Editor)
$100.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Ser.
As global cinema becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish, characterizations of horror films from various geographical and cultural locations seem more fluid and transitional than ever before. However, this does not mean denying the existence of national features that affect and are reflected in ho ...Show more
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory by Elsie Walker
$160.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Understanding Sound Tracks Through Film Theory breaks new ground by redirecting the arguments of foundational texts within film theory to film sound tracks. Walker includes sustained analyses of particular films according to a range of theoretical approaches: psychoanalysis, feminism, genre studies, pos ...Show more