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The Sonic Boom: How Sound Transforms the Way We Think, Feel, and Buy
Joel Beckerman · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover |
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A surprising look at the hidden power of sound, revealing how people and brands can use it to inspire and persuade — or annoy From horror movie scores to national anthems to the crunchy sound of potato chips, sound and music greatly impact how we feel about our lives and the messages... |
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Mad Men Unzipped: Fans on Sex, Love, and the Sixties on TV
Karen E. Dill-Shackleford · University of Iowa Press
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback |
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This is the story of the Mad Men fan phenomenon: how the show and its fans distinguished themselves in a market where it's hard to make an impression, not unlike the driven ad execs at the center of the show. In this book, four media psychologists who also just happen to be dedicated... |
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The Fashion of Film: Fashion design inspired by cinema
Amber Jane Butchart · Mitchell Beazley
Pages: 224
Format: Print book |
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The Fashion of Film is the perfect book for the fashion fan. In it, fashion historian Amber Butchart takes a journey through the last 100 years of cinema style and its influence on the catwalks. With beautiful imagery and thoroughly-researched text, she looks at how our most iconic... |
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Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History
Michael Klastorin · Harper Design
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover |
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Great Scott! Go Back to the Future with Doc Brown and Marty McFly in this visually stunning look at the creation of one of the most beloved movie trilogies of all time.Few films have made an impact on popular culture like the Back to the Future trilogy. This deluxe, officially licensed... |
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The Blues: A Visual History
Mike Evans · Sterling
Format: Hardcover |
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Originating in the African-American communities of the Deep South in the late nineteenth century, the blues gave birth to jazz, R&B, rock, punk, and country. From the impassioned slide guitar of the Mississippi Delta, to the electric sounds of Chicago's street corners, to the improvised... |
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World on a String: A Musical Memoir
John Pizzarelli · Wiley; 1 edition
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover |
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Behind the scenes in the life of a musician—an exuberant, entertaining memoir from jazz guitarist, singer, and raconteur John PizzarelliJohn Pizzarelli, the son of jazz guitar legend Bucky Pizzarelli, is a connoisseur of American song who grew up among the legends of jazz. From teenage... |
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American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Deborah Solomon · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover |
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Welcome to Rockwell Land, writes Deborah Solomon in the introduction to this spirited and authoritative biography of the painter who provided twentieth-century America with a defining image of itself. As the star illustrator of The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Norman... |
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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963
Ed Ward · Flatiron Books
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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Ed Ward covers the first half of the social history of rock & roll in this definitive book. Beginning in the 1920s when blues, country, and black popular music played over the air waves and the first independent record labels were born, this first volume of a two-part series finishes... |
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Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir
Joel Grey · Flatiron Books
Pages: 246
Format: Print book |
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Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children's theater... |
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Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty
Ben Ratliff · Farrar
Pages: 272
Format: Print book |
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What does it mean to listen in the digital era? Today, new technologies make it possible to roam instantly and experimentally across musical languages and generations, from Detroit techno to jam bands to baroque opera -- or to dive deeper into the set of tastes that we already have. Either... |
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The Making of Gone With The Wind
Steve Wilson · University of Texas Press
Format: Hardcover |
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Gone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the films producer, and his business partner John Hay Jock Whitney,... |
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
Linda Przybyszewski · Perseus Books Group
Pages: 347
Format: Hardcover |
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As a glance down any street in America quickly reveals, American women have forgotten how to dress. We chase fads, choose inappropriate materials and unattractive cuts, and waste energy tottering in heels when we could be moving gracefully. Quite simply, we lack the fashion know-how we need... |
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The Infographic History of the World
Valentina D'Efilippo · Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Review of the UK edition: "The authors have put as much effort into the design as the data and their book is meant to entertain as much as to inform." -- The Economist The Infographic History of the World starts at the dawn of time and launches into a 13.8 billion-year journey.... |
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