10 recommended titles for this Christmas

Craig Brown. against.

The most brilliant (and most influential) epic that rock music has produced in its nearly seven decades of existence lasted just eight years. It’s a story that’s been told thousands of times, but Brown approaches it with unconventional methods (focusing on a fascinating gallery of supporting characters) and captivating wit.

Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel. Dome Books

A massive tome of more than 600 pages in large format that collects hundreds of photographs and unpublished documents from the personal archives that the Minnesota singer-songwriter has deposited at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A succulent Christmas feast for fans of the author of Like a Rolling Stone.

Johnny Cash and Mark Stelber. Coltrum wrote.

The lyrics of 125 songs and the stories they inspired paint a sumptuous overview of the life and work of “The Man in Black,” a giant of American popular music who became a cultural, aesthetic, and moral reference for generations. Includes abundant unpublished photographs from the family archives.

Jarvis Cocker. Blackie wrote.

The Pulp leader decides to put order in the mismatched attic of his London home, and based on the things, valuable or ridiculous, found there, he reveals a funny story of how his teenage fantasy of creating a collection came true. of pop music and changing the music industry from within.

Richard Bowles. Liboroac.

The recent death of Shane MacGowan provides a sad topical payoff to this biography of the leader of The Pogues, which, despite bearing the ever-dubious label “Avowed”, yields an almost painful honesty, an account of a frenetic and tempestuous life that rushed between poetic peaks and alcoholic abysses.

Britney Spears. Plaza and Janes

With the help of three professional writers (Asa Calhoun, Sam Lansky, and Luke Dempsey), Britney Spears tells the story of her troubled life and brings to the story some unexpected touches of humor and some somewhat shocking revelations that help advance the case. Story.book to bestseller status.

Adrian Sanchez. Has bad reputation

The film that cemented Bruce Lee into the American market is a guilty pleasure for many movie buffs, an exhilarating mix of action, martial arts and blaxploitation blessed by cult figures like Tarantino. This book covers its history, preparation, photographic techniques, color processing, representation, effect, and its various ramifications.

Oliver Stone. Coltrum wrote

Numerous, controversial, contradictory… What do you expect from the memoirs of the director of “Platoon”? Well, the same thing that their films exude. The man who wrote the screenplay for “Conan the Barbarian” and directed “JFK” doesn’t marry anyone. His memories stop, hopefully temporarily, in 1986, but are enough to explain himself and much of North American society.

Ian Hayden Smith. Planet Dome Books

An applied and educational guide to documentary cinema, which has been going on for two decades, in which its author reviews the trends, the characters depicted, the types of narration, hybridization with fiction, the documentary phase, the anonymous character phase or the guerrilla phase: from “The Man with the Camera” by Soviet director Dziga Vertov In the series about OJ Simpson.

Carlos Lucilla (editor). ECAM-damma.

A perfect book to illustrate the power of Spanish female filmmakers. Its editor, Carlos Lucilla, has interviewed 10 of these directors, from Carla Simón (“Alcarràs”) to Clara Roque (“Libertad”), and from Alauda Ruiz de Azoa (“Cinco Wolves”) to Belén Funes (“La hija de a thief”) )’), then I extracted their statements to form a broad map of all their certainties and doubts.