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Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s) by Sophie Lucido Johnson
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.89"A fast-paced debut... A candid, modern take on polyamory for fans of memoirs and graphic novels, and anyone interested in stories of dating, love, and romance." -Library JournalAfter trying for... -
Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema S. Craig Watkins 9780226874890
Booksplease Price: $50.13In this text, S. Craig Watkins examines two of the important developments in the recent history of black cinema - the ascendancy of Spike Lee and the proliferation of "ghettocentric films". The work... -
Black American Cinema Manthia Diawara 9780415903974
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $96.47This is the first major collection of criticism on Black American cinema. From the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux and Wallace Thurman to the Hollywood success of Spike Lee, Black American... -
Facing Blackness by Ashley Clark 9798986446325
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $21.57"In Facing Blackness, Ashley Clark traces the contours of Bamboozled, guiding readers through Lee's intricate representation of race, politics, and popular culture. Clark moves beyond straightforward... -
Narratives of Hurricane Katrina in Context: Literature, Film and Television by Arin Keeble 9783030163525
Booksplease Price: $97.19This book analyzes six key narratives of Hurricane Katrina across literature, film and television from the literary fiction of Jesmyn Ward to the cinema of Spike Lee. It argues that these texts... -
Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled by Alessandra Raengo 9781501305795
Booksplease Price: $47.59The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of... -
Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies by Bell Hooks
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $49.43Movies matter - that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing... -
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38**WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY****WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)**Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown AwardFinalist, LA Times Book PrizeA landmark biography of one of... -
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films, Updated and Expanded 5th Edition by Donald Bogle 9780826429537
Booksplease Price: $113.67This classic iconic study of black images in American motion pictures has been updated and revised, as Donald Bogle continues to enlighten us with his historical and social reflections on the... -
This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.05With a twist on the practical movie-making genre, This Is How You Make a Movie brings the subject to life by explaining the terms and processes through the films you know and love. Using key scenes... -
The Mask of Art: Breaking the Aesthetic Contract-Film and Literature by Clyde Romer Hughes Taylor
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $37.82"In this critique of aesthetics and the politics of representation, Taylor demonstrates astonishing breadth and depth in arguing for 'breaking the aesthetic contract' that excludes anything that... -
Cool Men and the Second Sex by Susan Fraiman
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $179.28Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews by Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824585
Booksplease Price: $220.61A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews by Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824592
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu 9780571361762
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change.Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically... -
Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock by Terrence T. Tucker 9780813054360
Booksplease Price: $152.86In Furiously Funny, Tucker finds that comic rage developed from black oral tradition and first shows up in literature by George Schuyler and Ralph Ellison shortly after World War II. He examines its... -
Film and Knowledge: Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas by Kevin L. Stoehr 9780786413201
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film discuss the value of film in general and the value of certain films in particular. The essays explore such topics as the... -
Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination by Martin M. Winkler 9781107191280
RRP: $243.60Booksplease Price: $225.50Martin M. Winkler argues for a new approach to various creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. He examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy,... -
Negotiating Difference: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Positionality Michael Awkward 9780226033013
Booksplease Price: $56.03In this text, the author raids the borders of contemporary criticism to show how debilitating "protectionist" stances can be and how much might be gained by crossing cultural boundaries. From Spike... -
After the Storm: The Cultural Politics of Hurricane Katrina by Evangelia Kindinger
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $59.60"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating consequences for the region, for New Orleans, and... -
Welcome To The Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports by Dave Zirin 9781931859417
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $28.92The much-anticipated sequel to What's my name, Fool? by acclaimed commentator Dave Zirin breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the controversies and trends now shaping sports in the US and... -
The Other Malcolm Shorty Jarvis: His Memoir by Malcolm L. Jarvis 9780786440573
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $41.14The life of Malcolm "Shorty" Jarvis, Malcolm X's best friend before his conversion to Islam, is the subject of this memoir. Jarvis (who died in September 1998) and Paul D. Nichols tell Jarvis'... -
Critical Race Theory and Bamboozled by Alessandra Raengo 9781501305801
Booksplease Price: $171.09The Film Theory in Practice series fills a gaping hole in the world of film theory. By marrying the explanation of film theory with interpretation of a film, the volumes provide discrete examples of... -
Classical Literature on Screen: Affinities of Imagination by Martin M. Winkler
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $79.25Martin M. Winkler argues for a new approach to various creative affinities between ancient verbal and modern visual narratives. He examines screen adaptations of classical epic, tragedy, comedy,... -
Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire by Kojo Koram
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political WritingLonglisted for the British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural UnderstandingA Guardian Book of the... -
Cinema and Landscape: Film, Nation and Cultural Geography by Graeme Harper 9781841503097
Booksplease Price: $51.95The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet,... -
Faces In The Crowd: Musicians, Writers, Actors, And Filmmakers by Gary Giddins 9780306807053
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.40In Faces in the Crowd Gary Giddins explores the achievements of thirty-seven artists, ranging from Irving Berlin to Spike Lee, Billie Holiday to Kay Starr, Louis Armstrong to Miles Davis, Elias... -
Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions by Kimberly N. Ruffin 9780820328560
RRP: $279.20Booksplease Price: $130.18American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kimberly Ruffin expands the reach of ecocriticism by... -
Going There: Black Visual Satire by Richard J. Powell
RRP: $89.25Booksplease Price: $77.34A kaleidoscopic survey of black satire in 20th- and 21st-century American art In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in... -
The Big One: An Island, an Obsession, and the Furious Pursuit of a Great Fish by David Kinney 9780802144768
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.90Published to rave reviews in hardcover and purchased by DreamWorks in a major film deal, The Big One is a spellbinding and richly atmospheric work of narrative journalism in the tradition of Friday... -
Guide to American Cinema, 1965-1995 by Daniel Curran 9780313296666
Booksplease Price: $148.13This is a critical collection of key films, directors, and performers in American film, 1965-1995, a period that spans the demise of the studio system to the rise of the independents. The guide... -
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir by Dan Flory
Booksplease Price: $92.46In the past two decades, African American filmmakers like Spike Lee have made significant contributions to the dialogue about race in the United States by adapting techniques from classic film noir... -
Avedon 100 by Derek Blasberg 9780847873869
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $105.78Avedon 100 celebrates Richard Avedon's enduring influence on photography and makes clear his profound impression on visual culture worldwide.Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition... -
Ghetto Klown John Leguizamo 9781419715198
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $20.39The graphic novel adaptation of John Leguizamo's award-winning Broadway play-revised and expanded in paperback, with an all-new introduction by Lin-Manuel Miranda Teaming up with Brooklyn-based... -
Interpreting Tyler Perry: Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Jamel Santa Cruze Bell (Saint Louis University) 9781138067158
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $89.33Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a... -
Stone Island by Stone Island
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $89.67A favorite of Spike Lee, Drake, and the British boy band One Direction, the brand has its broadest appeal among the football fans of the English Premier League. Starting in the 1990s, Stone Island... -
City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination by Murray Pomerance
Booksplease Price: $78.69New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place... -
Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X by Michael Eric Dyson 9780195102857
Booksplease Price: $43.66Twenty years after his assassination, what is it about Malcolm X's life and words that speaks so powerfully to so many? In Making Malcolm, Michael Eric Dyson probes the myths and meanings of... -
Willi Smith: Street Couture by Alexander Cameron Cunningham
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $64.13African-American fashion designer Willi Smith, pioneer of streetwear and visionary collaborator, finally gets his due in an exuberant celebration of his life and work.Before Off-White, before Hood By... -
Cracking The Wire During Black Lives Matter by Ronda Racha Penrice
Booksplease Price: $45.91Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan, Wendell Pierce, Michael K. Williams -- first known as Stringer Bell, Wallace, Bunk, and Omar -- are just a few of the fruits of The Wire we enjoy today. Since its June...