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Love Goes to Buildings on Fire
Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever

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Punk rock and hip-hop. Disco and salsa. The loft jazz scene and the downtown composers known as Minimalists. In the mid-1970s, New York City was a laboratory...
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Soul Mining
A Musical Life

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Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, U2, Peter Gabriel, and the Neville Brothers all have something in common: some of their best albums were produced by...
  
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Retromania
Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past

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One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours,...
  
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The Chairs Are Where the People Go
How to Live, Work, and Play in the City

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Should neighborhoods change? Is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing, you’re against something else? Is...
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You Must Go and Win
Essays

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In the wickedly bittersweet and hilarious You Must Go and Win, the Ukrainian-born musician Alina Simone traces her bizarre journey through the indie rock...
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Theatre

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If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, “many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical.” As always,...
  
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Danny Boyle
In His Own Words

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Though the director Danny Boyle has long been a cult favorite for films such as Trainspotting and 28 Days Later, it wasn’t until his 2008 indie film Slumdog...
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The Habit of Art
A Play

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Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H....
  
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Video Slut
How I Shoved Madonna Off an Olympic High Dive, Got Prince into a Pair of Tiny Purple Woolen Underpants, Ran Away from Michael Jackson's Dad, and Got a Waterfall to Flow Backward So I Could Bring Rock Videos to the Masses

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When video killed the radio star, Sharon Oreck was calling the shots. Video Slut takes an irreverent look behind the scenes of the music-video industry...
  
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Perfecting Sound Forever
An Aural History of Recorded Music

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In 1915, Thomas Edison proclaimed that he could record a live performance and reproduce it perfectly, shocking audiences who found themselves unable to tell...

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The Animator's Survival Kit--Revised Edition
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

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The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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On Film-making
An Introduction to the Craft of the Director

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A priceless examination of the filmmaker's craft, from the renowned director of Sweet Smell of Success After more than twenty years in the film industry as...
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The God of Carnage
A Play

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What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A calm and rational debate between grown-ups about the need...
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The Anatomy of Story
22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

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"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby . . . [his lessons inspire] epiphanies that make you see the...
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Burton on Burton, 2nd Revised Edition

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A revised edition of the only book to explore the unique brilliance of director Tim Burton's work, including a new chapter on the making of Sleepy...
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The Animator's Survival Kit
A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators

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The definitive book on animation, from the Academy Award-winning animator behind Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Animation is one of the hottest areas of...
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Moviemakers' Master Class
Private Lessons from the World's Foremost Directors

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From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard, interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films--and why Each great filmmaker...
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The Playwright's Guidebook
An Insightful Primer on the Art of Dramatic Writing

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An accessible, contemporary guide to the art of dramatic writing During the ten years that Stuart Spencer has taught playwriting, he has struggled to find...
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Laurel Canyon
The Inside Story of Rock-and-Roll's Legendary Neighborhood

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In the late sixties and early seventies, an impromptu collection of musicians colonized a eucalyptus-scented canyon deep in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles...
  
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The Reel Truth
Everything You Didn't Know You Need to Know About Making an Independent Film

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Did you know that most of the biggest indie filmmakers, screenwriters, and producers working today each made the same avoidable mistakes early on in their...
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Lynch on Lynch, Revised Edition

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David Lynch erupted onto the cinema landscape in 1977 with Eraserhead, establishing himself as one of the most original and imaginative directors at work in...
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Ethan Coen and Joel Coen: Collected Screenplays 1
Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink

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These four early works by the internationally lauded filmmaking team deal with the subject for which they are best known: corruption and crime in situations...
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The Donnie Darko Book

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A companion volume to "one of the most original works of recent American Cinema"* Donnie Darko was the surprise cult hit of 2001. Appearing nationwide on...
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At Play
Teaching Teenagers Theater

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Young people and improvisational theater should be a natural combination—so why do we so rarely find this combo in today’s classrooms? According to Elizabeth...