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On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

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Essential Deren

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Equipment for Living

Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense
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Shock Value

How to Say Everything: Ideas, Practices and Challenges for Today’s Visual Storytellers
Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers
The Book of Ghost Stories
This Is Not a Pipe
Feel Free: Essays
The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History
The Velvet Underground
Signifying Rappers
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
Strange Stars
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
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Asia Shock

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The Women of David Lynch

Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
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Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form
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Monster, She Wrote

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Chant

Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
Ayoade on Top
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Doomed to Fail

Darkly
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Why Bushwick Bill Matters
American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
Harmonic Experience
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The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Borges: An Introduction
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James Joyce in 90 Minutes

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Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory

Beckett in 90 Minutes
Beethoven's Shadow
A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between
How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual
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A Page of Madness

Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
Kolchak: the Night Stalker
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
The Theater and Its Double
Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
The speed of sound : Hollywood and the talkie revolution, 1926-1930
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Laura's Ghost

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Music for Prime Time

The Black Guy Dies First
Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
We Don't Go Back
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Cult Cinema

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Solo Gig

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Fire Walk With Me

Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls
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Echo and Critique

On Bullshit
Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Eros the Bittersweet
Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence
Rhetoric
The history of sexuality

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