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Creative Producing: A Pitch-to-Picture Guide to Movie Development

Carol Baum - Allworth
Format: Paperback

Go behind the scenes with the producer of Father of the Bride to learn all the skills necessary to be a top Hollywood producer. As former co-president of Dolly Parton's production company, Sandollar, and as a successful independent producer, Carol Baum is an expert in the art of film...
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Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South (Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)

Corey J. Miles - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Paperback

Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode...
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This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better

Dr. Karan Rajan - Rodale Books
Format: Hardcover

The hilarious, myth-busting survival guide to the human body from TikTok's favorite surgeon. Though the odds are stacked against us, the human body has an extraordinary tendency to survive . . . Full of hard-learned lessons and health hacks from Dr. Karan's years working on hospital...
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Monsters on the Couch: The Real Psychological Disorders Behind Your Favorite Horror Movies

Brian A. Sharpless - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

Horror movies can reveal much more than we realize about psychological disorders - and clinical psychology has a lot to teach us about horror. Our fears - mortality, failure, loneliness - can be just as motivating as our wishes or desires. Horror movie characters uniquely reveal all of these...
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The Essential Anime Guide: 50 Iconic Films, Standout Series, and Cult Masterpieces

Patrick Macias - Running Press Adult
Format: Paperback

Featuring 50 of the most influential and essential Japanese animated series and films - from Akira to Cowboy Bebop to Sailor Moon - this expert guide is the must-have book for anime fans young and old. . The Essential Anime Guide is the guide every fan needs to the classic, must-see anime...
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60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla - Twelve
Format: Hardcover

A companion to the #1 music podcast on Spotify, this book takes readers through the greatest hits that define a weirdly undefinable decade. . The 1990s were a chaotic and gritty and utterly magical time for music, a confounding barrage of genres and lifestyles and superstars, from grunge...
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Karma: My Autobiography

Boy George - Mango
Format: Hardcover

The Official Story of a Musical Icon─Told in Full for the First Time in his Own Words!"The most entertaining music memoir since Elton John's Me... This is George O'Dowd in all his exhausting glory." Observer#1 New Release in Gay StudiesKarma is the definitive autobiography...
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So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed with It)

Jennifer Keishin Armstrong - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of the most iconic teen comedies of all time, Mean Girls, revealing how it happened, how it defined a generation, "like, invented" meme culture, and why it just won't go away, filled...
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Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky (33 1/3 Europe)

Ross Hagen - Bloomsbury Academic
Format: Paperback

Darkthrone's A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) is a foundational keystone of the musical and aesthetic vision of the notorious Norwegian black metal scene and one of the most beloved albums of the genre. Its mysterious artwork and raw sound continue to captivate and inspire black...
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Ode to Gen X: Institutional Cynicism in Stranger Things and 1980s Film

Melissa Vosen Callens - University Press of Mississippi
Format: Paperback

Even for the casual viewer, the Netflix series Stranger Things will likely feel famil-iar, reminiscent of popular 1980s coming-of-age movies such as The Goonies, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and Stand by Me. Throughout the series, nods to each movie are abundant. While Stranger Things and these...
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