Michael Curtiz
The first biography of the greatest filmmaker that nobody knows. Academy Award-winning director Michael Curtiz (1886-1962)—whose best-known films include Casablanca, Yankee Doodle
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Category: Arts & Entertainment
American Comics: A History
This is the sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their century-long hold on the American imagination.
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It Came from the Closet
Through the lens of horror—from Halloween to Hereditary—queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror
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The Sound of the Machine
Whether in Kraftwerk or as an acclaimed solo artist, Karl Bartos has had an extraordinary impact on electronic music. In The
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The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World
A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the
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Hanna-Barbera, the Recorded History
Whether it’s Tom and Jerry, Scooby-Doo, the Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, or hundreds of others, the creations
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So Many Roads
No longer dismissed as relics of the hippie era, a new generation has lionized the Dead for creating a culture
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Forgotten Women
Forgotten Women reaches around the world and its history to rediscover, retell and reinstate the lives of over 190 important and
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From The Wiz to Wakanda: Afrofuturism in Pop Culture
Afrofuturism is a cultural movement that seeks to explore and transform the experience of the African diaspora. Stretching across multiple
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From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast (Series 4)
To age, they say, is to decline. Yet some things actually improve as they get older: certain wines, His Majesty
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