Everything I Know About Books: An insider look at publishing in aotearoa by Edited by Odessa Owens and Theresa Crewdson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
A wide range of publishers, illustrators, poets, publicists, designers and award-winning authors such as Ashleigh Young, Anahera Gildea, Michael Bennett, Paula Morris, Selina Tusitala Marsh discuss their writing. Covering a blend of genres, including advice, poems, listicles, creative insights, graphi ...Show more
Jenny McLeod - A Life in Music by Norman Meehan
$50.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Born in 1941, at age five she discovered she could read music fluently. After a childhood in Timaru and Levin, she went on to study music with Douglas Lilburn and Frederick Page at Victoria University College, and in Europe with two imposing figures of mid-twentieth century modernism: Olivier Messiaen a ...Show more
Sound Bites by Ed Le Brocq
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Ed Le Brocq invites you to come on a journey with him through a living tradition that spans a millennium - the tradition of Western classical music. Have you ever wondered where our music comes from? How did we arrive here, a place where we can have a hundred musicians on stage playing the wildest rhyt ...Show more
Marvel Studios The Marvel Cinematic Universe An Official Timeline by Anthony Breznican, Amy Ratcliffe, Rebecca Theodore-Vachon
$85.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Become a master of the Marvel Cinematic Universe! The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is vast, incredibly varied, and richly complex. Different worlds, different timelines, countless characters. This is the guide to that universe. Created in close collaboration with Marvel Studios, it will frame the MCU ...Show more
DO NOT DETONATE Without Presidential Approval - A Portfolio on the Subjects of Mid-Century Cinema, the Broadway Stage and the American West by Wes Anderson (Editor); Jake Perlin (Editor)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West ** Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film ...Show more
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Dylan Jones's definitive oral history of The Velvet Underground draws on contributions from remaining members, contemporaneous musicians, critics, film-makers, and the generation of artists who emerged in their wake, to celebrate not only their impact but their legacy, which burns brighter than ever int ...Show more
Fassbinder - Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Penman's long awaited first original book, a kaleidoscopic study of the late West German film maker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982). Written quickly under a self-i ...Show more
Living Colour's Time's Up by Kimberly Mack
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
The iconic Black rock band Living Colour's Time's Up, released in 1990, was recorded in the aftermath of the spectacular critical and commercial success of their debut record Vivid. Time's Up is a musical and lyrical triumph, incorporating distinct forms and styles of music and featuring inspired collab ...Show more
Ways of Hearing - Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces by Scott Burnham (Editor); Marna Seltzer (Editor); Dorothea von Moltke (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
An outstanding anthology in which notable musicians, artists, scientists, thinkers, poets, and more--from Gustavo Dudamel and Carrie Mae Weems to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Paul Muldoon--explore the influence of music on their lives and work Contributors include: Laurie Anderson ● Jamie Barton ● Daphne A ...Show more
Honey, Baby, Mine - A mother and daughter talk life, death love (and banana pudding) by Laura Dern, Diane Ladd
$38.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
*WITH A FOREWORD FROM REESE WITHERSPOON* A collection of deeply personal conversations from award-winning actress and activist Laura Dern and the woman she admires most, her mother-legendary actress Diane Ladd. What happens when we are brave enough to speak our truths to the ones we love the most? Laura ...Show more
Unscripted by James B Stewart Rachel Abrams
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
'Addicted to Succession? Well, here's the real thing.' Hollywood ReporterThe shocking inside story of how dysfunction, misconduct and scandal almost brought down one of Hollywood's greatest companies.Unscripted is the inside story of the struggle to control one of the world's great entertainment empires ...Show more
Babes in Toyland's Fontanelle 33 1/3 by Selena Chambers
$22.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: 33 1/3 Ser.
Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and underrated bands of the 1990s. They rode the wave of the Minneapolis grunge scene crafting a unique sound composed of self-taught instrumentation and unabashed banshee raging vocals. Their stage presence was enigmatic, their lyrics vitriolic, and thei ...Show more