Art & Architecture
Introducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.
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Art & Architecture
Paperback. A comprehensive collection of essays, speeches, and interviews on the impact of jazz on other arts, on politics, and on the rhythm of everyday life, including an essay on poet and novelist James Weldon Johnson as a cultural critic, an interview with Wynton Marsalis, a speech on the heroic image in jazz, and a newspaper review of Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk. Editor(s): O'Meally, Robert G. Num Pages: 576 pages, 25 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; 3JJH; 3JJP; AVGJ; AVGK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 182 x 306 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231104494
- ISBN
- 9780231104494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. A detailed historical analysis of popular music in American film, from the era of sheet music sales, to that of orchestrated pop records by Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone in the 1960s, to the MTV-ready pop songs that occupy soundtrack CDs of today. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 18 illus., 8 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; AVA; KNTC; KNTF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231108638
- ISBN
- 9780231108638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. This title considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. It also examines how Hollywood has both reflected and helped to shape the concept of masculinity. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 384 pages, 59 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; 3JM; APFA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113014
- ISBN
- 9780231113014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. This collection of original essays develops new, intertextual approaches to thinking about rock music. Editor(s): Dettmar, Kevin J. H.; Richey, William. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: AVG; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113991
- ISBN
- 9780231113991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Hardback. This innovative book focuses on the contested origins of ethnographic film from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s, vividly depicting the dynamic visual culture of the period as it collided with the emerging discipline of anthropology and the new technology of motion pictures. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 528 pages, 100 illus. BIC Classification: APFA; HBG; HBLW3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 790.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231116961
- ISBN
- 9780231116961
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.84€ 89.47
€ 118.84
€ 89.47
Hardback. A history of public broadcasting, the book questions public television's common-sense priorities and argues that its tendency to reject popular culture has undermined its capacity to serve the people it claims to represent. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231119429
- ISBN
- 9780231119429
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.33€ 82.56
€ 109.33
€ 82.56
Hardback. Takes a look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. George Gallup's polling techniques first achieved fame when he accurately predicted that Franklin D Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. This work traces Gallup's intellectual and methodological developments, examining his approach to market research. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KJSM; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121323
- ISBN
- 9780231121323
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.52
€ 134.52
Paperback. George Gallup's polling techniques achieved fame when he predicted that Franklin D Roosevelt would be reelected president in 1936. This work traces Gallup's intellectual and methodological developments, examining his comprehensive approach to market research. It takes a look at the film industry's use of opinion polling in the 1930s and '40s. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF; KJSM; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231121330
- ISBN
- 9780231121330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. Focusing on the artists Ice Cube, Dr Dre, the Geto Boys, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, Quinn explores the origins, development, and immense popularity of gangsta rap. Including detailed readings in urban geography, neoconservative politics, subcultural formations, black cultural debates, and music industry conditions, this book explains how and why this music genre emerged. Series: Popular Cultures, Everyday Lives. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: AVGR; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 15. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231124096
- ISBN
- 9780231124096
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.39
€ 37.99
€ 27.39
Hardback. This study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial strategies for "self-fashioning" and the playwrights' intellectual, social, and institutional contexts, using research in original sources and analysis of the contentious historiography and competing analytic contructs in cultural theory and criticism. Series: Gutenberg-E. Num Pages: 387 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; AN; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 41. Weight in Grams: 908.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 387
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231124607
- ISBN
- 9780231124607
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.81€ 61.86
€ 80.81
€ 61.86
Paperback. Published in conjunction with a New-York Historical Society exhibition, this photo-filled, pocket-size guidebook by a New York Times senior writer covers 1,079 houses of worship in New York City. Num Pages: 400 pages, 899 photos; 24 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; AMN; WTHM; WTM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 144 x 26. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125437
- ISBN
- 9780231125437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 31.10
€ 43.99
€ 31.10
Paperback. Moving from an exploration of 19th century popular science and magic to Hollywood science fiction cinema of our time, this text examines the history, advancements and connoisseurship of special effects. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 9 photos. BIC Classification: APFV; UGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231125635
- ISBN
- 9780231125635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.55
€ 37.99
€ 27.55
Hardback. Since The Voice of America first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, it has undergone a spectacular transformation. This book chronicles this transformation from a fledgling short wave propaganda organ during World War II to a global multimedia giant encompassing radio and the Internet. Num Pages: 544 pages, 24 photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126748
- ISBN
- 9780231126748
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.33€ 82.56
€ 109.33
€ 82.56
Paperback. Since The Voice of America first went on the air as a regional wartime enterprise in February 1942, it has undergone a spectacular transformation. This book chronicles this transformation from a fledgling short wave propaganda organ during World War II to a global multimedia giant encompassing radio and the Internet. Num Pages: 544 pages, 24 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APW; HBT; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 43. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231126755
- ISBN
- 9780231126755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.64
€ 46.99
€ 33.64
Hardback. This classic text-continually in print for more than half a century-analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. Translator(s): Wallis, Kendall. Num Pages: 368 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; 3H; AM; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231127042
- ISBN
- 9780231127042
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.18€ 63.58
€ 83.18
€ 63.58
Hardback. Since their inception, museums of science and natural history have mixed education and entertainment to incredible, eye-opening effect. Focusing on several historical case studies, this work explores the uncanny and unforgettable impact of the panorama, planetarium, IMAX theater, and the medieval cathedral on the spectator. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, B&W Illus.: 121,. BIC Classification: APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 229 x 36. Weight in Grams: 1044.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129886
- ISBN
- 9780231129886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.89€ 85.89
€ 112.89
€ 85.89
Hardback. Presents a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. This book features essays that look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects. Series: Cultures of History. Num Pages: 432 pages, 132 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACV; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129985
- ISBN
- 9780231129985
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 131.27
€ 131.27
Hardback. Demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom. This book examines the reasons for the declining state of the art and the implications for all of us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 161 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 635.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130660
- ISBN
- 9780231130660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.58€ 79.12
€ 104.58
€ 79.12
Paperback. Since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have both made an important contribution to and offered a critical commentary on our society. This book demonstrates the limits of cartooning from the courtroom to the newsroom. It examines the reasons for the declining state of the art and the implications for all of us. Num Pages: 288 pages, 161 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 182 x 17. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231130677
- ISBN
- 9780231130677
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.32
€ 37.99
€ 27.32
Paperback. The third book in a trilogy that includes Seeing the Divine and Hearing the Divine, this book articulates the religious sensibility underlying the traditional performing arts and examines the relationships between the arts and religion in India today. Num Pages: 160 pages, 32 photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 167 x 13. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231131452
- ISBN
- 9780231131452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.34
€ 30.99
€ 22.34