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  • Screening Science
    Errol Vieth
    Screening Science examines the growth in the influence and power of the scientific paradigm in the fifties, through an examination of the film where such science was discussed, distorted, debated, denigrated, demonized and deified. This exploration reveals a great deal about the concerns of the time, as well as the science that figures so powerfully in the webs of culture of th...
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    136,32 €

  • The Fabulous Maestro
    Edward Ansara
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    32,98 €

  • Married to Laughter
    Jerry Stiller
    From his initial success in the coffeehouses of Greenwich Village with Anne Meara, who would be the love of his life, to his serenity-seeking days on 'Seinfeld' and later on 'The King of Queens,' Jerry Stiller has consistently proven himself to be a force in showbiz. In 'Married to Laughter,' he brings us into his world and recounts, in a tone that is laugh-out-loud funny and s...
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    19,80 €

  • Marshal Royal
    Claire P. Gordon / Marshal Royal
    Marsgal Royal was a core member of the Count Basei Orchestra for twenty years during its resurgence in the 1950s and 1960s. Before that, he was a pioneer of jazz on the West Coast, playing with many bands in and around Los Angeles. A child prodigy of both the violin and saxophone, Royal was literally born on the road as his musician parents made their way West. Royal shares his...
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    53,62 €

  • Living with the Dead
    David Dalton / Rock Scully
    This memoir chronicles the Grateful Dead’s seminal years: 1965-1985. ...
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    16,75 €

  • It Ain’t No Sin To Be Glad You’re Alive
    Eric Alterman
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    23,38 €

  • Some Cutting Remarks
    Laurie Holz / Ralph E Winters / Ralph E. Winters / Ralph EWinters
    Drawing from his own ascent through the MGM studio system, Mr. Winters guides the reader through a history of American film editing, beginning with its earliest days when film was torn by hand. Not a glamorous account of Hollywood, the book gives film buffs and moviegoers a nuts-and-bolts look at the mechanics of editing from the inside out. ...
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    92,11 €

  • Confessions of a Hollywood Director
    Richard L Bare / Richard L. Bare / Richard LBare
    Richard Bare is primarily known as the sole director of the television series Green Acres, but his Hollywood career spanned over 40 years, starting with his USC student film, So You Want to Give Up Smoking, which resulted in a long-term contract at Warner Bros. He has directed over a dozen feature films and over 400 television shows, including Maverick, 77 Sunset Strip, The Vir...
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    97,05 €

  • Where Dead Voices Gather
    Nick Tosches
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    35,42 €

  • Shakira
    Ximena Diego
    Shakira, which in Arabic means 'woman full of grace,' is poised to become one of the biggest crossover successes in music history. She landed her first record deal when she was a mere thirteen years old, recorded her second album at sixteen, and starred in a popular soap opera-all before graduating from high school. She was only 19 when her third album, 'Pies Descalzos ('Barefo...
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    12,29 €

  • Dakota Epic
    Bill Markley
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    16,33 €

  • Josephine Baker
    Chris Chase / Jean Claude Baker / Jean-Claude Baker
    This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy. ...
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    18,79 €

  • The Divine Comic
    Carlo Celli
    Introduces Benigni’s performances in film, stage, and television, little known outside of Italy, with an emphasis on the cultural and intellectual backdrops that characterize his films, including his origins among the Tuscan rhyming poets and his experiences in the Roman avant-garde theater. Benigni’s statements about his experiences and apprenticeships with cinema notables lik...
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    89,48 €

  • The Musical Genesis of Felix Mendelssohn’s Paulus
    Siegwart Reichwald
    Felix Mendelssohn is one of the most celebrated figures of the early Romantic period. As a composer of sacred texts, he is chiefly remembered today for the oratorios Paulus (1836) and Elijah (1846). In this groundbreaking study, Siegwart Reichwald offers a meticulous analysis of Paulus, beginning with a general overview of the oratorio traditions of the early nineteenth century...
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    138,75 €

  • With or Without a Song
    David Eliscu / Edward Eliscu
    Edward Eliscu has lived three celebrated lives for much of this century-on Broadway, in Hollywood, and in Connecticut. Known among his peers as the exemplary professional lyricist and to many others as a trenchant and witty playwright, screenwriter, performer, director, essayist, critic, poet, and political polemicist, Eliscu is best known to the general public as the writer of...
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    118,14 €

  • Hildegard of Bingen
    Anne H. King-Lenzmeier / Anne HKing-Lenzmeier
    Hildegard of Bingen: An Integrated Vision shows that Hildegard’s opus was filled with balance, unity, and a stress on the Gospel-a life and work that served as an inspiration and a challenge for the twelfth century and now for us at the beginning of the twenty-first century.Hildegard of Bingen: An Integrated Vision considers Hildegard as a whole person and places her within her...
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    35,67 €

  • My Profession
    Sergei Obraztsov
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    39,29 €

  • Roadie
    Karl Kuenning
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    19,42 €

  • Annie Lennox
    Bryony Sutherland / Lucy Ellis
    The definitive biography of the Scottish singer who graduated from The Tourists to The Eurythmics and went on to international solo stardom. From Love is a Stranger through Diva to the reformed Eurythmics 1999 album Peace, this is the revealing story of an extraordinary female singer.At last, here is the definitive biography of one of pop’s most private stars. Annie Lennox has...
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    22,82 €

  • Hitchcock's Rereleased Films
    Walter Raubicheck
    Five of Hitchcock’s most significant films were unavailable to the public for as long as two decades before their release in 1983–84. This highly readable volume collects the most important essays written about Hitchcock and the rereleased films since that time. Covering the entire range of contemporary film criticism and theory, these studies demonstrate Hitchcock’s centrality...
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    42,41 €

  • The Operator
    King / Thomas R. King
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    29,21 €

  • My Musical Experiences
    Bettina Walker
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    33,17 €

  • A Passion to Win
    Sumner Redstone
    In one of the great business autobiographies of this or any other year, Sumner Redstone, at age 77, reveals, blow-by-blow, how he battled his way to control and ownership of a vast media and entertainment empire that includes Paramount Pictures, MTV, Nickelodeon, Blockbuster, Simon & Schuster, and now CBS. This is not the story of 'a modern manager' such as a Jack Welch or a Ge...
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    48,46 €

  • Letters From the Prophets
    Julian Schlusberg
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    37,29 €

  • The King of All, Sir Duke
    Peter Lavezzoli
    Twenty-five years ago in his hit song, 'Sir Duke,' Stevie Wonder sings: 'Music knows it is and always will be one of the things that life just won’t quit. / Here are some of music’s basic pioneers that time will not allow us to forget: / There’s Basie, Miller, Satchmo, and the King of All, Sir Duke! / And with a voice like Ella’s ringing out, there’s no way the band can lose! /...
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    46,03 €

  • Jeff Beck
    Annette Carson
    JEFF BECK: CRAZY FINGERS (REFERENCE BOOK) ...
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    16,27 €

  • Behind the Smile
    Marie Osmond
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    35,44 €

  • Theatre Tales
    David John Clive
    'It is widely believed that if you mention anything to an actor that happened more than twenty years ago, he or she will either laugh or cry. The point being that events in the show business tend to attain a larger than life quality, at least to the participants, either sadder or funnier than they would be if normal people were involved. I have earned a precarious living in var...
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    20,46 €

  • Hollywood Beauty
    Ronald L. Davis
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    19,26 €

  • Andy Kaufman Revealed!
    Bob Zmuda / Mathew Scott Hanson
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    24,49 €