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Art & Architecture

Architecture books onlineIntroducing… 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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Paperback. In jazz circles, players and listeners with "big ears" hear and engage complexity in the moment, as it unfolds. Taking gender as part of the intricate, unpredictable action in jazz culture, this title explores the terrain opened up by listening, with big ears, for gender in jazz. Editor(s): Rustin, Nichole T.; Tucker, Sherrie. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 472 pages, 19 photographs, 1 table, 4 figures. BIC Classification: AVGJ; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 26. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343202
ISBN
9780822343202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 32.04

paperback. A look at how prominent Indian visual artists created modern art for the postcolonial nation in the years between India's independence in 1947 and 1980. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 224 pages, 27 illustrations (incl. 10 in color). BIC Classification: 1FKA; ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 4369 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343752
ISBN
9780822343752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Paperback. This eye-opening exploration of the aesthetic and legal innovations of home video revisits four decades of frequently overlooked histories of video recording. Num Pages: 352 pages, 54 illustrations. BIC Classification: AJRH; HBTB; JFDT; LNRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343769
ISBN
9780822343769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. An historical examination of the early-twentieth-century Indian Craze, a widespread interest in Native American art, that explores its importance for Native Americans, Euro Americans, and the history of modernism. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 304 pages, 80 b&w illustrations, 8 color plates. BIC Classification: ACBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 183 x 28. Weight in Grams: 907.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822343905
ISBN
9780822343905
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.29

Hardback. In this concise analysis of the television show The Sopranos, a leading film and TV scholar explains the importance of the series in both its cultural and media-industry contexts. Series: Spin Offs. Num Pages: 232 pages, 29 illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 211 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822343929
ISBN
9780822343929
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.26

Paperback. A work of film studies that traces how the traumatic Partition of India and Pakistan has been represented (or not represented) in Indian cinema from 1947 to the present. Num Pages: 384 pages, 63 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344117
ISBN
9780822344117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. This first in-depth English-language study of Argentine fiction films released since the mid-1990s explains how they have registered Argentina s recent experience of capitalism, neoliberalism, and economic crisis. Num Pages: 248 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344575
ISBN
9780822344575
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.75

Paperback. This first in-depth English-language study of Argentine fiction films released since the mid-1990s explains how they have registered Argentina s recent experience of capitalism, neoliberalism, and economic crisis. Num Pages: 248 pages, 39 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KLSA; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344728
ISBN
9780822344728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.40

Hardback. Argues that fantastic cinema depicts the coexistence of other modes of being alongside and within the modern present, disclosing multiple 'immiscible' temporalities that strain against homogeneous time. Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 233 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822344995
ISBN
9780822344995
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Hardback. Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies parallels the collision of film and other media. Num Pages: 320 pages, 98 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 239 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347088
ISBN
9780822347088
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

Paperback. Argues that representations of the car crash in film genres from slapstick comedies to industrial-safety movies parallels the collision of film and other media. Num Pages: 320 pages, 98 illustrations. BIC Classification: APFN. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347262
ISBN
9780822347262
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.55

Hardback. An argument that the fantasy of an inscrutable East has functioned as a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Num Pages: 216 pages, 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FP; APFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822347439
ISBN
9780822347439
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.21

Paperback. An ethnography exploring the aesthetics and politics of South Asian American (desi) hip hop artists. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 368 pages, 26 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1KBB; AVGR; JFCA; JFSL3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 212 x 139 x 23. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347606
ISBN
9780822347606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.70

Paperback. Rethinks films including Pillow Talk and Rear Window by identifying the apartment plot as a distinct genre, one in which the urban apartment figures as a central narrative device. Num Pages: 328 pages, 55 illustrations, incl. 23 in color. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APF; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822347736
ISBN
9780822347736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Paperback. Argues that the imperial Inka understood stone as potentially animate, sentient, and sacred; building in stone was a way of ordering unordered nature, domesticating untamed spaces, and claiming new territories. Num Pages: 320 pages, 53 b&w illustrations, 15 color plates. BIC Classification: 1KLSX; ACBK; HDD; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 26. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348078
ISBN
9780822348078
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

Hardback. With a focus on collage and appropriation art, essays exploring the legal ramifications of such practices in an age when private companies can own culture using copyright and trademark law Editor(s): McLeod, Kembrew; Kuenzli, Rudolf. Num Pages: 376 pages, 28 illustrations, incl. 4 in color. BIC Classification: AB; JFCA; LNRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348115
ISBN
9780822348115
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Paperback. An analysis of self-starvation as a significant mode of staging political arguments across the institutional domains of the clinic, the gallery, and the prison. Series Editor(s): Halberstam, Jack; Lowe, Lisa. Series: Perverse Modernities. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: AFKP; JFCA; JFFH; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822348283
ISBN
9780822348283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. A comprehensive analysis of the changing representations of military women in American and British movies and TV programs from the Second World War to the present. Num Pages: 328 pages, 51 illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJP; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 235 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348474
ISBN
9780822348474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

paperback. The best of the cult-favorite music magazine Roctober s conversations with overlooked or forgotten artists, from the Outlaw Country singer David Allan Coe to the frustrated interstellar glam act Zolar X. Editor(s): Austen, Jake. Series: Refiguring American Music. Num Pages: 320 pages, 74 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348498
ISBN
9780822348498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.50

Paperback. Dana Polan considers what made Julia Child s TV show, The French Chef, so popular during its original broadcast and such enduring influences on American cooking, American television, and American culture since then. Series: Spin Offs. Num Pages: 312 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APT; JFDT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822348726
ISBN
9780822348726
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.62

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