Biographies

One of the most prolific and influential auteurs at work over the past 40 years, cult Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has beguiled audiences worldwide with his thrilling dissertations on desire, passion, and identity. Cast an eye over his long list...

On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness, is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is...

While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their diversity of scale, material, and form. Piano rose to international...

Black Women Directors (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture) Paperback – March 18, 2022by Christina N. Baker (Author) Black women have long recognized the power of film for storytelling. For far too long, however, the cultural and historical narratives about...

Behind the scenes of some of the 20th century’s greatest movies with the Master of Suspense“If you make a bomb go off, the audience has a shock that lasts 10 seconds,” said Alfred Hitchcock. “But if you simply tell them...

The Roof: The Beatles' Final Concert Hardcover – November 13, 2018 by Ken Mansfield (Author) HE WAS THERE! Apple Records former US manager Ken Mansfield takes a touching and comprehensive look back on one of Rock’n’Roll’s most significant events, while...

The Legendary Miss Lena Horne Hardcover – January 24, 2017by Carole Boston Weatherford (Author), Elizabeth Zunon (Illustrator)Celebrate the life of Lena Horne, the pioneering African American actress and civil rights activist, with this inspiring and powerful picture book from award-winning...

Marlon Brando: Anatomy of an Actor Hardcover – May 21, 2013by Florence Colombani (Author)Marlon Brando (1924-2004) is an icon in the history of American cinema. When he passed away in 2004, The New York Times remember 'the rebellious prodigy who...

Lourdes Portillo: The Devil Never Sleeps and Other Films (Chicana Matters) Paperback – May 1, 2001by Rosa Linda Fregoso (Editor)Filmmaker Lourdes Portillo sees her mission as "channeling the hopes and dreams of a people." Clearly, political commitment has inspired her...

Transgender Cinema (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture) Paperback – March 1, 2019 by Rebecca Bell-Metereau (Author) 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title​. Transgender Cinema gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. Beginning with...

Pageboy: A Memoir Hardcover – June 6, 2023 by Elliot Page (Author)Full of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being...

The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. (33 1/3) Paperback – February 19, 2005 by Bill Janovitz (Author) Tracing the creation of Exile on Main Street from the original songwriting done while touring America through the final editing in Los...

Prince's Sign O' the Times (Thirty Three and a Third series) Paperback – March 31, 2004 by Michaelangelo Matos (Author) One of the greatest double albums of the vinyl era, Sign O' the Times shows Prince at his peak. Here,...

Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace (33 1/3) Paperback – Box set, October 6, 2011 by Aaron Cohen (Author) For two days in January 1972, Aretha Franklin sang at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles while tape recorders and...

Peter Bogdanovich, known primarily as a director, film historian and critic, has been working with professional actors all his life. He started out as an actor (he debuted on the stage in his sixth-grade production of Finian’s Rainbow); he watched...