Category - Performing Arts
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Ousmane Sembène: The Making of a Militant Artist
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /Samba Gadjigo presents a unique personal portrait and intellectual history of novelist and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. Though Sembène has persistent...
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Pleading the Blood: Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The definitive look at one of the most important Black art films and original filmmakers of the 1970s.Bill Gunn's Ganja & Hess (1973) has acros...
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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginni...
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The Afterlives of Kathleen Collins: A Black Woman Filmmaker's Search for New Life
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /An absorbing portrait of a groundbreaking Black woman filmmaker.Kathleen Collins (1942-88) was a visionary and influential Black filmmaker. Beginni...
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding ch...
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting s...
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and proces...
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $66.00 - Original price $66.00Original price $66.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and proces...
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Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood’s golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much lik...
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Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry, Anna May Wong (1905-1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood...
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Viva Hollywood: The Legacy of Latin and Hispanic Artists in American Film
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Through an authoritative narrative and lavish photography, this is an in-depth history of the stars, films, achievements, and influence of the Hisp...
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Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret Through the AIDS Crisis
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /'I read the book in one go. I laughed and cried like a baby, and was transported back to a time of innocence, clouded by the enormity of the harsh ...
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I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Award–winning actor ...
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Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate b...
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The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /One of the most acclaimed film director biographies ever published. The Ghastly One: The 42nd Street Netherworld of Director Andy Milligan is back ...
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When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Kenan Thompson has spent his life on screen, now he's coming to the page to get personal. With essays written in that hilarious tone he's known for...
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Eddie Green - The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer (hardback)
HardcoverOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /This is the HARDBACK version. A good man is hard to find, as the famous 1919 song by Eddie Green attests, but the pioneering Black filmmaker, movie...
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The Devil Finds Work
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that ...
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Spike Lee: Director's Inspiration
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /An inspirational trove of film posters and ephemera, photographs, artwork and more from the collection of Spike LeeFor nearly four decades, Spike L...
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We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter. WE SEE EACH ...
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Purple Rising: Celebrating 40 Years of the Magic, Power, and Artistry of the Color Purple
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece The Color Purple--as well as the acclaimed 1985 film from Steven Spielberg...
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Wendy's Got the Heat
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Known as a "shock jock diva," Wendy Williams has had a following in the nation's number one media market, New York City, and across the nation from...
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Mae West: An Icon in Black and White
PaperbackOriginal price $48.99 - Original price $48.99Original price $48.99$62.99$62.99 - $62.99Current price $62.99| /"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her dea...
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Finding Fish
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster fa...
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