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Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, SuperstarCynthia Carr202418 pts2 wins3 listsUnknown imprintBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+1
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional AgeTimothy Bewes202210 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressArts & CriticismMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
GirlhoodMelissa Febos202110 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyMemoir & AutobiographyArt, Music & Performance+2
Infinite PowersSteven Strogatz201910 pts1 wins1 listsMariner BooksScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+2
Everything That Rises: A Book of ConvergencesLawrence Weschler200610 pts1 wins1 listsMcSweeney'sArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American CultureGerald Early199510 pts1 wins1 listsEccoArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844John L. Brooke199410 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressReligionFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
The Image Empire: A History of Broadcasting in the United States, Volume III—From 1953Erik Barnouw197010 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressHistoryEducation & Universities+3
The Gutenberg GalaxyMarshall McLuhan196210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTechnologyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946–presentTim Brooks, Earle Marsh198010 pts1 wins1 listsBallantine BooksArts & CriticismLiterature & Writers+2
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake NewsKevin Young201710 pts1 wins3 listsGraywolf PressHistoryMedia, Journalism & Public Opinion+2
ColumbineDave Cullen20098 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintTrue Crime & JusticeArt, Music & Performance+2
Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the WarsPaul Fussell19808 pts0 wins2 listsOxford University PressTravel & PlaceIntellectual History & Ideas+3
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop CultureDaniel Mendelsohn20126 pts0 wins2 listsSecker & WarburgArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+2
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie ColvinLindsey Hilsum20186 pts0 wins3 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox NewsKathryn Cramer Brownell20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressPolitics & GovernmentFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
The Rise of Big Data PolicingAndrew Guthrie Ferguson20194 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressTrue Crime & JusticeCrime, Policing & Violence+3
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s RussiaJoan Neuberger20194 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressArts & CriticismFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Landscapes of Hope: Nature and the Great Migration in ChicagoBrian McCammack20174 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of FilmRobert Sitton20144 pts1 wins1 listsColumbia University PressBiographyArt, Music & Performance+3
TrollopeVictoria Glendinning19924 pts1 wins1 listsHutchinsonBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
Beneath the American Renaissance: Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and MelvilleDavid S. Reynolds19894 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented HollywoodNeal Gabler19884 pts1 wins1 listsAnchorBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of ScotsJohn Guy20044 pts1 wins1 listsFourth EstateBiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TVEmily Nussbaum20254 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American CultureTricia Romano20244 pts0 wins1 listsPublicAffairsHistoryArt, Music & Performance+2
Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of AmazonMark McGurl20214 pts0 wins1 listsVerso BooksArts & CriticismFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood MemoirVictoria Riskin20194 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to LivePeter Orner20164 pts0 wins1 listsCatapultArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Karaoke Culture: EssaysDubravka Ugresic20114 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureArt, Music & Performance+2
Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and CultureDavid Hajdu20094 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
Crow CountryMark Cocker20084 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentArt, Music & Performance+2
Malignant SadnessLewis Wolpert19994 pts0 wins1 listsFaber & FaberMedicine & Public HealthScience & Discovery+3
Coming of Age in the Milky WayTimothy Ferris19884 pts0 wins1 listsWilliam MorrowScienceArt, Music & Performance+2
American Popular Song: The Great Innovators, 1900–1950Alec Wilder19724 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950Richard Howard19694 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismIntellectual History & Ideas+3
"The Love of Anxiety" and Other EssaysCharles Frankel19654 pts0 wins1 listsHarper & RowSociety & CultureIntellectual History & Ideas+3
Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock MusicEllen Willis20114 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+2
Homeland: The War on Terror in American LifeRichard Beck20242 pts0 wins1 listsCrownPolitics & GovernmentCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Otherwise: EssaysJulie Marie Wade20232 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
I Like To Watch: Arguing My Way Through the TV RevolutionEmily Nussbaum20192 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseArts & CriticismDemocracy & Elections+3
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-DelusionJia Tolentino20192 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsSociety & CultureEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Women at Work in Twenty-First-Century European CinemaBarbara Mennel20192 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Illinois PressHistoryClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First CenturyJessica Bruder20172 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonSociety & CultureFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandSimon Callow20152 pts0 wins1 listsVikingBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' RollPeter Guralnick20152 pts0 wins1 listsOrionBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
The Empathy ExamsLeslie Jamison20142 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressSociety & CultureCrime, Policing & Violence+3
The Real Mrs MiniverYsenda Maxtone Graham20022 pts0 wins1 listsJohn MurrayBiographyDisability & Difference+3
Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025A.S. Hamrah20252 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
In the Dream House: A MemoirCarmen Maria Machado20192 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressMemoir & AutobiographyEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public HousingBen Austen20182 pts0 wins1 listsHarperRace & EthnicityClass, Poverty & Inequality+3
True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights MovementJon Else20172 pts0 wins1 listsVikingRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+3
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National IdentityChristian G. Appy20152 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressHistoryFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Dark Invasion: 1915; Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in AmericaHoward Blum20142 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsHistoryCrime, Policing & Violence+3
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own StoryRick Bragg20142 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the LegendSusan Orlean20112 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterWar & MilitaryWar & Military Strategy+1
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?Jeanette Winterson20112 pts0 wins1 listsGrove AtlanticMemoir & AutobiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
Into The Tangled BankLev Parikian20201 pts0 wins1 listsElliott & ThompsonScienceFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of AfrofuturismPaul Youngquist20160 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Superwomen: Gender, Power, and RepresentationCarolyn Cocca20160 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyGender & SexualityFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body PoliticsLinda Mizejewski20140 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Texas PressSociety & CultureFilm, Television & Popular Culture+3
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical AgeW. Bernard Carlson20130 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
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All awards · Topic: Film, Television & Popular Culture · Sorted by score · 63 books · filtered