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Representing Jazz by Krin Gabbard
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the... -
Representing Jazz by Krin Gabbard 9780822315797
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £76.14Traditional jazz studies have tended to see jazz in purely musical terms, as a series of changes in rhythm, tonality, and harmony, or as a parade of great players. But jazz has also entered the... -
Jazz Among the Discourses by Krin Gabbard 9780822315964
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48The study of jazz comes of age with this anthology. One of the first books to consider jazz outside of established critical modes, Jazz Among the Discourses brings together scholars from an array of... -
Jammin' at the Margins: Jazz and the American Cinema by Krin Gabbard 9780226277899
Booksplease Price: £30.73American cinema has long been fascinated by jazz and jazz musicians. Yet most jazz films aren't really about jazz. Rather, as Krin Gabbard shows, they create images of racial and sexual identity,... -
Black Magic: White Hollywood and African American Culture by Krin Gabbard 9780813533841
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.22Why do so many African American film characters seem to have magical powers? And why do they use them only to help white people? When the actors are white, why is the sound track so commonly... -
Better Git It in Your Soul: An Interpretive Biography of Charles Mingus by Krin Gabbard 9780520260375
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.51Charles Mingus is one of the most important-and most mythologized-composers and performers in jazz history. Classically trained and of mixed race, he was an outspoken innovator as well as a... -
Screening Genders: The American Science Fiction Film Robert Eberwein 9780813543406
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £24.60Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging... -
Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom by Landon Palmer
Booksplease Price: £40.82During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that... -
Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom by Landon Palmer 9780190888404
Booksplease Price: £117.30During the mid-1950s, when Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that... -
Kd by Dave Oliphant
RRP: £20.95Booksplease Price: £14.24Written in tightly constructed rhymed quatrains, this is the first biography of internationally acclaimed Texas jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham. Beginning in 1963 with Dorham's recordings in Denmark,... -
Film Noir William Luhr (Saint Peter's College, USA) 9781405145954
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £31.16Film Noir offers new perspectives on this highly popular and influential film genre, providing a useful overview of its historical evolution and the many critical debates over its stylistic elements... -
Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film by Murray Pomerance
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at... -
Irish and African American Cinema: Identifying Others and Performing Identities, 1980-2000 by Maria Pramaggiore 9780791470961
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £22.31How these two cinemas portray complex and changing notions of national and racial identity.Focusing on two film traditions not normally studied together, Maria Pramaggiore examines more than two... -
Rock 'n' Roll Movies by David Sterritt
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.84Rock 'n' Roll Movies presents an eclectic look at the many manifestations of rock in motion pictures, from teen-oriented B-movies to Hollywood blockbusters to avant-garde meditations to reverent... -
Thriving on a Riff: Jazz and Blues Influences in African American Literature and Film by Graham Lock 9780195337099
Booksplease Price: £34.67From the Harlem Renaissance to the present, African American writers have drawn on the rich heritage of jazz and blues, transforming musical forms into the written word. In this companion volume to... -
Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind: Tampering with Myths by Caryl Flinn 9780472039395
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.59Despite a career spanning over forty years, filmmaker Alan Rudolph has flown largely under the radar of independent film scholars and enthusiasts, often remembered as Robert Altman's protege. Through... -
Enfant Terrible!: Jerry Lewis in American Film by Murray Pomerance 9780814767054
Booksplease Price: £90.57The one thing everybody knows about Jerry Lewis is that he is beloved by the French, those incomprehensible hedonistic strangers across the sea. The French understand him, while in the U.S. he is at... -
New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn 9780472116751
Booksplease Price: £71.22New Orleans Style tells the tale of the recognition of New Orleans jazz as a discrete style and how that recognition affected the writing of American jazz history.The men and women who participated... -
Sound: Dialogue, Music, and Effects by Kathryn Kalinak 9780813564265
Booksplease Price: £33.25Sound has always been an integral component of the moviegoing experience. Even during the so-called "silent era," motion pictures were regularly accompanied by live music, lectures, and sound effects... -
Jazz and Cocktails: Rethinking Race and the Sound of Film Noir by Jans B. Wager 9781477312278
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Film noir showcased hard-boiled men and dangerous femmes fatales, rain-slicked city streets, pools of inky darkness cut by shards of light, and, occasionally, jazz. Jazz served as a shorthand for the... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir by Robert Miklitsch
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands: On Classic Film Noir by Robert Miklitsch 9780252038594
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £75.14Consider the usual view of film noir: endless rainy nights populated by down-at-the-heel boxers, writers, and private eyes stumbling toward inescapable doom while stalked by crooked cops and cheating... -
Spike Lee's America by David Sterritt 9780745651811
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only... -
Spike Lee's America by David Sterritt 9780745651828
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.76Spike Lee has directed, written, produced, and acted in dozens of films that present an expansive, nuanced, proudly opinionated, and richly multifaceted portrait of American society. As the only... -
We'll Meet Again: Musical Design in the Films of Stanley Kubrick by Kate McQuiston 9780199767663
Booksplease Price: £41.15Famous for his painstaking attention to detail and for the craftsmanship and artistry he brought to his work, filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is by now long established as both the subject of an entire... -
Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz by Jennifer Fleeger 9780199366491
Booksplease Price: £42.93Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz tells the story of the interaction between musical form, film technology, and ideas about race, ethnicity, and the nation during the American cinema's... -
Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music by Arthur Knight
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music... -
The Evolution of Jazz in Britain, 1880-1935 Catherine Tackley (nee Parsonage) 9781138275164
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79As a popular music, the evolution of jazz is tied to the contemporary sociological situation. Jazz was brought from America into a very different environment in Britain and resulted in the... -
The Grove Music Guide to American Film Music by Daniel Goldmark 9780190636265
Booksplease Price: £57.87The Grove Music Guide to American Film Music documents the lives and works of many of the individuals responsible for writing music for some of the most popular and well-known films, television... -
Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing by David Yaffe 9780691123578
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07How have American writers written about jazz, and how has jazz influenced American literature? In Fascinating Rhythm, David Yaffe explores the relationship and interplay between jazz and literature,... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis 9780814751619
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties by Jon Lewis 9780814751602
Booksplease Price: £96.29Thirty-four essays that take a serious look at the state of modern cinema Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have... -
Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination by Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674055438
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26In 1941 Thelonious Monk and Kenny Clarke copyrighted "Epistrophy," one of the best-known compositions of the bebop era. The song's title refers to a literary device-the repetition of a word or phrase... -
Jazz by Gary Giddins 9780393068610
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.59In this vivid history of jazz, a respected critic and a leading scholar capture the excitement of America's unique music with intellectual bite, unprecedented insight, and the passion of unabashed... -
Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-1960 by Alan Ainsworth 9781789384215
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.15Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Photographs of musicians are popular with enthusiasts, while historians and critics are keen to incorporate photographs as... -
Sight Readings: Photographers and American Jazz, 1900-60 Alan John Ainsworth 9781835950562
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £23.50Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Photographs of musicians are popular with enthusiasts, while historians and critics are keen to incorporate photographs as... -
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War by Penny M. Von Eschen
Booksplease Price: £28.25At the height of the ideological antagonism of the Cold War, the U.S. State Department unleashed an unexpected tool in its battle against Communism: jazz. From 1956 through the late 1970s, America...