Music, movies and performing arts books

Fast Times and Excellent Adventures is an inside look at the surprising history of the Eighties teen movie - how the movie world got to that position and what it did with that power. Take a trip back to the era of troubled teens and awesome soundtracks; of Reagan, rap and Ridgemont High; of MTV, ...

An indelible and irresistible portrait of the crucial formative years of the legendary rock band KISS and the music scene they changed forever -- culminating with the groundbreaking success of their classic 1975 album Alive! and the smash single "Rock and Roll All Nite" Including original intervi...

The definitive book on the world's most beloved musical with the added bonus of the original soundtrack on CD. Now you can sing along to all your favourite tunes, while reading up on the incredible and enduring story of Maria Von Trapp.

FILMS, CINEMA. James Cameron's Avatar is the biggest movie of all time. Now the movie's legendary director has leant his support to an exploration of the world of Pandora with bestselling science-fiction author Stephen Baxter. From journeys into deep space to anti-gravity unobtanium, from Pandora...

An inspirational piece of music for every day of the year, celebrating composers from the medieval era to the present day.

THEORY OF MUSIC & MUSICOLOGY. "Throughout human history, music has accompanied us in times of joy and in times of sorrow. This comprehensive encyclopedia is not only a reference work on musical instruments suitable for experts; it also explains the effects and expressive powers of the musical art...

This is possibly the most comprehensive book of rock trivia ever complied and the morsels will entice... Did you know that in 2013 Chubby Checker sued Hewlett-Packard over a 99c app called the Chubby Checker which allowed user's to enter a man's shoe size to estimate the size of his penis. He cla...

A substantial update of the previous edition, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach adds analyses of recent feature films and offers a new section on popular television series and streaming content.

Scum and Villainy profiles the misdeeds of infamous smugglers, pirates, gamblers, bounty hunters, and thieves throughout galactic history. Page through the case files of three generations of galactic law-enforcers and explore their case reports, surveillance images, warrants, artifacts, and much ...