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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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Art & Architecture

Paperback. An analysis of how Gore Vidal, as a public intellectual, negotiates the print/screen media divide Series: Public Planet Books. Num Pages: 176 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APT; JFC; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3480 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336402
ISBN
9780822336402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider Black modernism Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; 1KBB; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336433
ISBN
9780822336433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.31

Paperback. A history and theorization of the representation of public health concerns in commercial cinema and educational film Num Pages: 288 pages, 98 b&w photos. BIC Classification: APFA; MJCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822336488
ISBN
9780822336488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.53

Paperback. Argues that the modern subject did not emerge from psychoanalysis or existential philosophy but rather within early-twentieth-century Viennese portraiture. Num Pages: 192 pages, 51 illustrations (incl. 16 in color). BIC Classification: AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822336709
ISBN
9780822336709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.17

Paperback. A collection of essays focused on the pivotal role of travelogues within the history of cinema Editor(s): Ruoff, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 312 pages, 41 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: APFA; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337133
ISBN
9780822337133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.42

paperback. Argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance Num Pages: 488 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; AN; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 654.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822337225
ISBN
9780822337225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.70

Paperback. Traces the history of British and Indian cinema in the late colonial period, revealing how popular film styles and controversial film regulations in the politically linked territories of Britain and India reconfigured imperial relations. Num Pages: 336 pages, 34 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1FKA; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
Annotated
SKU
V9780822337935
ISBN
9780822337935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.64

Paperback. The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. The isolation of the Peron era was over, the economy was doing well, and the arts were invigorated. This book presents an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics organized to promote an international identity for Argentina's visual arts. Translator(s): Kahn, Dr. Peter. Series: Latin America Otherwise. Num Pages: 432 pages, 63 illustrations (22 color/16 pg insert, 41 b&w). BIC Classification: 1KLSA; 3JJPK; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 27. Weight in Grams: 653.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822338932
ISBN
9780822338932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.86

Paperback. An account of dissidence in Hafiz Asad s Syria, describing how intellectuals tried to navigate between charges of complicity with the state and treason against it. Num Pages: 208 pages, 13 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBS; AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822340355
ISBN
9780822340355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Dubbed the "Urban Generation," this cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. This title brings together some of the original research on this emerging cinema and its relationship to Chinese society. Editor(s): Zhang, Zhen (Communications Science Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA). Num Pages: 464 pages, 60 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 30. Weight in Grams: 649.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822340744
ISBN
9780822340744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.82

Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of identity politics in three of Bali s musical subcultures-reggae, punk, and death metal-during the 1990s. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJPR; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 14. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822341154
ISBN
9780822341154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.43

Paperback. An ethnographic exploration of the relationship between music and social and political consciousness on the island of Trinidad. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 figures. BIC Classification: 1KJWWT; AV; JFC; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3971 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822341659
ISBN
9780822341659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Investigates the relationship between early American cinema and the experience of technological modernity. This book demonstrates how, between the late 1890s and the eve of World War I, moving pictures helped the US public understand the possibilities and perils of forms of "traffic" produced by industrialization and urbanization. Num Pages: 288 pages, 41 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342014
ISBN
9780822342014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Hardback. Historians, anthropologists, and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world. Editor(s): Walkowitz, Daniel J.; Knauer, Lisa Maya. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 376 pages, 65 illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: AM; HBAH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822342175
ISBN
9780822342175
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.33

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
€ 31.92

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
€ 26.31

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
€ 29.60

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
€ 29.60

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