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Behind the Mirror: Inside the World of Big Brother
Taran Armstrong
Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos
Michael Imperioli
And Don't F&%k It Up: An Oral History of RuPaul's Drag Race (The First Ten Years)
María Elena Fernández
Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
Mathew Klickstein
Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN
James Andrew Miller
Punk Rock: An Oral History
John Robb
Music Is History
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
David Baron
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Alice Echols
Here's to My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980
George Case
Indie, Inc.: Miramax and the Transformation of Hollywood in the 1990s (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)
Alisa Perren
Indie: An American Film Culture (Film and Culture Series)
Michael Z. Newman
Dirty Words and Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment
Jeremy Geltzer
The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis
Barbara Creed
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
Carol J. Clover
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film, 1978 to 1986
Adam Rockoff
90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
Allison Yarrow
Analog Nightmares: The Shot On Video Horror Films of 1982-1995
Richard Mogg
Are You In The House Alone?: A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999
Amanda Reyes
Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen
Brian Raftery
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror
David J. Skal
Bleeding Skull: A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey
Joseph A. Ziemba
Bleeding Skull!: A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey
Ad Astra: 20 Years of Newspaper Ads for Sci-Fi & Fantasy Films
Michael Gingold
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the '70s and '80s (Expanded Edition)
Ad Nauseam II: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1990s & 2000s (Ad Nauseum, #2)
Ad Nauseam: Newsprint Nightmares from the 1980s
Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents
Stephen Thrower
Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present
Robin R. Means Coleman
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror
Jason Zinoman
obsessed with this list holy shit!!
Really cool list!
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Excited to come back to this list! Ty!!
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