Criticism

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#102
Cover 3

On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

On the Use and Abuse of History for Life
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
01 read
#103
Cover 8

Essential Deren

Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film
  • Maya Deren
01 read
#104
Cover 8

Equipment for Living

Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
  • Michael Robbins
01 read
#105
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
  • Grady Hendrix
4.352 reads
#106
Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
  • Michael Robbins
32 reads
#107
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
  • Daniel Mendelsohn
4.219 reads
#108
Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
Literature Class, Berkeley 1980
  • Julio Cortazar
01 read
#109
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry
  • Harold Bloom
45 reads
#110
Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense
Reading the Way of Things: Towards a New Technology of Making Sense
  • Daniel Coffeen
52 reads
#111
Cover 7

Shock Value

Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
  • Jason Zinoman
45 reads
#112
How to Say Everything: Ideas, Practices and Challenges for Today’s Visual Storytellers
How to Say Everything: Ideas, Practices and Challenges for Today’s Visual Storytellers
  • Tom Hart
01 read
#113
Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers
Highlife Giants: West African Dance Band Pioneers
  • John Collins
01 read
#114
The Book of Ghost Stories
The Book of Ghost Stories
  • M.R. James
01 read
#115
This Is Not a Pipe
This Is Not a Pipe
  • Michel Foucault
3.54 reads
#116
Feel Free: Essays
Feel Free: Essays
  • Zadie Smith
4.0919 reads
#117
The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History
The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History
    52 reads
    #118
    The Velvet Underground
    The Velvet Underground
    • Richard Witts
    01 read
    #119
    Signifying Rappers
    Signifying Rappers
    • David Foster Wallace
    01 read
    #120
    The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
    The New Biographical Dictionary of Film: Expanded and Updated
    • David Thomson
    52 reads
    #121
    Strange Stars
    Strange Stars
    • Jason Heller
    32 reads
    #122
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
    • Thomas De Quincey
    35 reads
    #123
    Cover 3

    Asia Shock

    Asia Shock: Horror and Dark Cinema from Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand
    • Patrick Galloway
    42 reads
    #124
    Cover 4

    The Women of David Lynch

    The Women of David Lynch: A Collection of Essays
    • Scott Ryan, David Bushman
    01 read
    #125
    Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
    Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music
    • Christopher C. King
    01 read
    #126
    Cover 5

    Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

    Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
    • Jude Ellison S. Doyle
    4.56 reads
    #127
    The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form
    The Prosody Handbook: A Guide to Poetic Form
    • Robert Beum
    • Karl Shapiro
    01 read
    #128
    Cover 4

    Monster, She Wrote

    Monster, She Wrote
      3.7320 reads
      #129
      Cover 6

      Chant

      Chant: The Origins, Form, Practice, and Healing Power of Gregorian Chant
      • Katharine Le Mée
      01 read
      #130
      Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
      Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
      • John Waters
      3.7110 reads
      #131
      Ayoade on Top
      Ayoade on Top
      • Richard Ayoade
      3.6735 reads
      #132
      Cover 0

      Doomed to Fail

      Doomed to Fail
      • J.J. Anselmi
      01 read
      #133
      Darkly
      Darkly
      • Leila Taylor
      43 reads
      #134
      The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
      The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation
      • Joseph Lanza
      01 read
      #135
      Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
      Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
      • Amit Chaudhuri
      01 read
      #136
      Why Bushwick Bill Matters
      Why Bushwick Bill Matters
      • Charles L. Hughes
      01 read
      #137
      American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
      American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper
        01 read
        #138
        Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
        Muse Sick: a music manifesto in fifty-nine notes
        • Ian Brennan
        01 read
        #139
        Harmonic Experience
        Harmonic Experience
        • W. A. Mathieu
        02 reads
        #140
        Cover 8

        The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME

        The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME
        • Blake Ells
        01 read
        #141
        Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
        Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
        • Ben Watson
        01 read
        #142
        Borges: An Introduction
        Borges: An Introduction
        • Julio Premat
        01 read
        #143
        Cover 2

        James Joyce in 90 Minutes

        James Joyce in 90 Minutes
        • Paul Strathern
        01 read
        #144
        Cover 1

        Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory

        Jonas Mekas, Shiver of Memory
        • Peter Delpeut
        01 read
        #145
        Beckett in 90 Minutes
        Beckett in 90 Minutes
        • Paul Strathern
        33 reads
        #146
        Beethoven's Shadow
        Beethoven's Shadow
        • Jonathan Biss
        02 reads
        #147
        A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom
        A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom
        • Mortimer J. Adler
        01 read
        #148
        The Jimi Hendrix Experience
        The Jimi Hendrix Experience
        • Jerry Hopkins
        01 read
        #149
        Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between
        Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything In Between
        • Michael Tau
        01 read
        #150
        How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual
        How Slavoj Became Žižek: The Digital Making of a Public Intellectual
        • Eliran Bar-El
        01 read
        #151
        Cover 1

        A Page of Madness

        A Page of Madness
        • Aaron Gerow
        01 read
        #152
        Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
        Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion
        • Harry Sword
        3.676 reads
        #153
        Kolchak: the Night Stalker
        Kolchak: the Night Stalker
        • Kendall R. Phillips
        01 read
        #154
        Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
        Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs
        • Greil Marcus
        01 read
        #155
        The Theater and Its Double
        The Theater and Its Double
        • Antonin Artaud
        • Mary C. Richards (Translator)
        4.56 reads
        #156
        Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
        Toil and Trouble: A Women’s History of the Occult
        • Melanie R. Anderson
        • Lisa Kröger
        3.67 reads
        #157
        The speed of sound : Hollywood and the talkie revolution, 1926-1930
        The speed of sound : Hollywood and the talkie revolution, 1926-1930
        • Scott Eyman
        01 read
        #158
        Cover 7

        Laura's Ghost

        Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks
        • Courtenay Stallings
        01 read
        #159
        Cover 2

        Music for Prime Time

        Music for Prime Time: A History of American Television Themes and Scoring
        • Jon Burlingame
        01 read
        #160
        The Black Guy Dies First
        The Black Guy Dies First
        • Robin R. Means Coleman
        • Mark H. Harris
        4.836 reads
        #161
        Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
        Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror
          01 read
          #162
          We Don't Go Back
          We Don't Go Back
          • Howard David Ingham
          4.54 reads
          #163
          Cover 7

          Cult Cinema

          Cult Cinema
          • Howard Ingham
          01 read
          #164
          Cover 6

          Solo Gig

          Solo Gig: Essential Curiosities in Musical Free Improvisation
          • Davey Williams
          01 read
          #165
          Cover 2

          Fire Walk With Me

          Fire Walk With Me: Your Laura Disappeared
          • Scott Ryan
          01 read
          #166
          Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls
          Bitches in Bonnets: Life Lessons from Jane Austen's Mean Girls
          • Sarah J. Makowski
          01 read
          #167
          Cover 2

          Echo and Critique

          Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech
          • Florian Gargaillo
          01 read
          #168
          On Bullshit
          On Bullshit
          • Harry G. Frankfurt
          3.4154 reads
          #169
          Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
          Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
          • Odie Henderson
          01 read
          #170
          Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
          Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
          • Michel Foucault
          • Richard Howard (Translator)
          3.7922 reads
          #171
          Eros the Bittersweet
          Eros the Bittersweet
          • Anne Carson
          511 reads
          #172
          Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence
          Millennial Nasties: Analyzing a Decade of Brutal Horror Film Violence
          • Ariel Powers-Schaub
          01 read
          #173
          Rhetoric
          Rhetoric
          • Aristotle
          • William Rhys Roberts (Translator)
          3.7628 reads
          #174
          The history of sexuality
          The history of sexuality
          • Michel Foucault
          • Robert Hurley (Translator)
          3.4830 reads