The Art and Soul of Dune by Tanya Lapointe
Category: Performing Arts
Immerse yourself in the world of Denis Villeneuve's Dune and discover the incredible creative journey that brought Frank Herbert's iconic novel to the big screen.Frank Herbert's science fiction classic Dune will be seen like never before in the breath-taking film adaptation from acclaimed director Denis ...Show more
Eraserhead by Claire Henry
Category: Performing Arts | 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
Step by Step Piano Course by Edna Mae Burnam
Category: Performing Arts
(Willis). Students can enjoy this best-selling book with audio access online This piano course provides the student the opportunity to experience the joy of playing while learning the rudiments of music in a logical order, with gradual and steady progress, presenting a challenge toward increasing pianis ...Show more
The Whole Durn Human Comedy: Life According to the Coen Brothers by Joseph McBride
Category: Performing Arts
The Coen Bros. have attracted a wide following and have been rewarded with Oscars and other honors. Some of their films such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men are cult favorites and box office hits. Yet this team of filmmaking brothers remains misunderstood in some critical circles, ...Show more
Hildegard of Bingen - Woman of Her Age by Fiona Maddocks
Category: Performing Arts
Best known today as a fine composer, the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was also a religious leader and visionary, a poet, naturalist and writer of medical treatises. Despite her cloistered life she had strong, often controversial views on sex, love and marriage too - a woman astonish ...Show more
Alright, Alright, Alright - The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused by Melissa Maerz
Category: Performing Arts
The definitive oral history of the cult classic Dazed and Confused, featuring behind-the-scenes stories from the cast and crew and written with the cooperation of Oscar-nominated director Richard Linklater. Dazed and Confused not only heralded the arrival of filmmaker Richard Linklater, it introduced a ...Show more
As Serious As Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977 by Valerie Wilmer
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Serpent's Tail Classics
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements of African-American artists ...Show more
Nothin' but a Good Time - The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion by Tom Beaujour; Richard Bienstock
Category: Performing Arts
The definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal. 1980s hard rock was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated--and maybe even helped to define--a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted S ...Show more
Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's Time Out of Mind by Graley Herren
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Anthem Studies in Theatre and Performance Ser.
Time Out of Mind is one of the most ambitious, complex, and provocative albums of Bob Dylan's artistic career. This album marks the culmination of several recurring themes that have preoccupied Dylan for decades, and it serves as a pivotal turning point toward his late renaissance in terms of both subje ...Show more
Billy F Gibbons - Rock + Roll Gearhead by Billy F. Gibbons; Tom Vickers; David Perry (By (photographer))
Category: Performing Arts
On the 50th anniversary of his band, ZZ Top lead guitarist and co-founder Billy F Gibbons riffs on his life as a collector and designer whose passions have manifested themselves in his renowned custom cars and guitars.
Recorder for Beginners by Anthony Marks
Category: Performing Arts
This delightfully illustrated and very approachable book provides a perfect introduction to playing the recorder. It starts with the absolute basics such as how to put your recorder together and how to play your first notes, then it teaches you a series of different tunes, gradually adding new notes alo ...Show more