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
Hardback. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923956
- ISBN
- 9780226923956
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.82€ 82.26
€ 99.82
€ 82.26
Paperback. Focusing on popular huayno music and the ways it has been promoted to Peru's emerging middle class, the author tells a complex story of identity making and the marketing forces entangled with it, providing crucial insights into the dynamics among art, class, and ethnicity that reach far beyond the Andes. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 map, 18 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; AVGH; AVGP; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226923963
- ISBN
- 9780226923963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 29.52
€ 37.99
€ 29.52
Paperback. Revealing the unique significance of the concentration camp photographs, this text shows how they have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our presentations and perceptions of contemporary history's subsequent atrocities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 57 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJP; AJCP; HBG; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTZ1; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 165 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226979731
- ISBN
- 9780226979731
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.01
€ 31.99
€ 25.01
Paperback. Illustrates the cultural significance of film and its power as a vehicle for social change. This book reveals the intricacies of the cultural movement and explores its connections to other art forms such as photography, drama, and literature. It looks at the cultural history of Chinese through the lens of this seminal moment in Shanghai cinema. Series: Cinema and Modernity. Num Pages: 456 pages, 95 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; APF; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 285 x 31. Weight in Grams: 786.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 456
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226982380
- ISBN
- 9780226982380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 40.83
€ 52.99
€ 40.83
Paperback. Saxon brings together more than 300 letters written by the self-styled "Prince of Humbugs." Here we see him, opinionated and exuberant, with only the rarest flashes of introspection and self-doubt, haggling with business partners, blustering over politics, and attempting to get such friends as Mark Twain to endorse his latest schemes. Num Pages: 454 pages, 28 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ASZW; BGF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 748.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 454
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231056878
- ISBN
- 9780231056878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.41
€ 37.99
€ 27.41
Hardback. Num Pages: 468 pages. BIC Classification: APF; JFD; KNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 165. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 468
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231061346
- ISBN
- 9780231061346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.28€ 100.69
€ 134.28
€ 100.69
Hardback. This treatise relates Schoenberg's concept of the musical idea. It defines his thought on gestalt, motive, grundgestalt, phrase, rhythm and accent, the construction function of harmony, homophonic and contrapuntal forms, and compositional coherence. Editor(s): Carpenter, Patricia; Neff, Severine. Num Pages: 486 pages, 179 illustrations. BIC Classification: AVA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 239 x 32. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 486
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231064286
- ISBN
- 9780231064286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.28€ 100.69
€ 134.28
€ 100.69
Hardback. Provides information on the music, libretto, and major roles of operas and music theater works by more that one hundred modern American composers, and includes selections from reviews of each work. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AVGC9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231069205
- ISBN
- 9780231069205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.89€ 85.15
€ 112.89
€ 85.15
Paperback. Examines the intersection of the public and private meaning of music. This book incorporates the music criticism of Adorno, musical ideas from literary works by Proust, and criticism by Benjamin and de Man, and discusses performers such as Glenn Gould, Arturo Toscanini, and Alfred Brendel and such composers as Beethoven, Wagner, and Strauss. Series: The Wellek Library Lectures. Num Pages: 109 pages, music. BIC Classification: AV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 159 x 8. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 109
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231073196
- ISBN
- 9780231073196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 22.22
€ 30.99
€ 22.22
Hardback. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 464 pages, 87 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; 3JM; APF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 708.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231073622
- ISBN
- 9780231073622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.84€ 89.47
€ 118.84
€ 89.47
Paperback. Wood explores the relationships between narrative form and style and sexual politics, probing the political and sexual ramifications of fascism and cinema, marriage and the couple, romantic love, and representations of women, race and gender in films from the United States, Europe, and Japan. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, 34 film stills. BIC Classification: 1D; 1FPJ; 1KBB; APFA; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076050
- ISBN
- 9780231076050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.15
€ 40.99
€ 29.15
Hardback. Num Pages: 275 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AS; AVH; LNR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 278 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 39th Edition
- Number of pages
- 275
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231076081
- ISBN
- 9780231076081
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 134.28€ 100.69
€ 134.28
€ 100.69
Paperback. Concentrating on canonical critical texts and images, the book examines modern art through a rhetoric of representation rather than through formalist criticism or the history of the avant-garde. Series: Interpretations in Art S. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 164 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231080835
- ISBN
- 9780231080835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.06
€ 40.99
€ 29.06
Paperback. Series: Interpretations in Art S. Num Pages: 89 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; AC; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 856 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 89
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231083881
- ISBN
- 9780231083881
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.43
€ 37.99
€ 27.43
Hardback. An engrossing examination of a popular box office genre-the gross-out movie-Laughing Screaming is the first study to take this lowbrow product seriously. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 524 pages, 77 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 165 x 38. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition & 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 524
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231084642
- ISBN
- 9780231084642
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 148.64
€ 148.64
Paperback. Providing an historical and cultural exploration, this text demonstrates the role Japanese cinema played in the 1930s in the construction of a national identity, and in terms of the larger context of Japan's encounter with the West and with modernity. Series: Film and Culture Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; APFA; JFC; JPFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231102315
- ISBN
- 9780231102315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 30.78
€ 43.99
€ 30.78
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