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Teachers and Teaching on Stage and on Screen - Dramatic Depictions by Diane Conrad
RRP: £42.95SciFier: £39.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789380675Author Diane ConradFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect -
Crossing Gender Boundaries Andrew Reilly 9781789381146
RRP: £87.95SciFier: £87.29Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789381146Author Andrew ReillyFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect -
Queer Communion - Ron Athey by Amelia Jones
RRP: £40.95SciFier: £38.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789380941Author Amelia JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint IntellectPublisher Intellect -
World Film Locations: Sao Paulo by Natalia Pinazza (University of Exeter, UK)
SciFier: £24.44Sao Paulo is the largest city in South America and the powerhouse of Brazil's economy. A multi-racial metropolis with a diverse population of Asian, Arabic and European immigrants as well as migrants... -
Directory of World Cinema: Argentina 2 by Gary M. Kramer (Independent Scholar)
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £38.48This volume continues the exploration of contemporary Argentine cinema that began in the first book. It provides a close analysis of exciting new directors, including Marco Berger and Matias Pineiro,... -
Directory of World Cinema: Scotland by Bob Nowlan
SciFier: £48.09Scotland, its people and its history have long been a source of considerable fascination and inspiration for filmmakers, film scholars and film audiences worldwide. A significant number of critically... -
Polanski and Perception by Davide Caputo (University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £30.16A new approach to a director whose contribution to cinema is often overshadowed his personal life, Polanski and Perception focuses on Roman Polanski's interest in the nature of perception and how... -
Directory of World Cinema: American Hollywood 2 by Lincoln Geraghty (University of Portsmouth, UK)
SciFier: £48.09Hollywood continues to reign supreme; from award-winning dramas to multimillion-dollar, special-effects-laden blockbusters, Tinseltown produces the films that audiences around the world go to the... -
Crime Uncovered: Private Investigator by Alistair Rolls
SciFier: £29.20The private investigator is one of the most enduring characters within crime fiction. From Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade - the hard-boiled loner trawling the mean streets - to Agatha Christie's... -
Rhetoric of Modern Death in American Living Dead Films by Outi Hakola
RRP: £35.95SciFier: £33.65Zombies, vampires and mummies are frequent stars of American horror films. But what does their cinematic omnipresence and audiences' hunger for such films tell us about American views of death? Here,... -
Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012 Peter Sramek 9781783200320
SciFier: £70.86Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary 'rephotographs' taken by the author with images of nineteenth-century Paris taken by Charles... -
Modern Argentine Masculinities by Carolina Rocha (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)
SciFier: £36.85Modern Argentine Masculinities gathers essays that explore the social construction of gender from the nineteenth century to the present. Authors analyze literary and cinematic texts, as well as... -
Picturing the Cosmos by Iina Kohonen
SciFier: £31.11Picturing the Cosmos elucidates the complex relationship between visual propaganda and censorship in the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing from a... -
The Sensible Stage by Bridget Crone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
RRP: £88.95SciFier: £88.12The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice. It engages with a global phenomenon in which elements from theatre... -
World Film Locations: Helsinki Silja Laine 9781841507224
SciFier: £24.44Part of Intellect's World Film Locations series, World Film Locations: Helsinki explores the relationship between the city, cinema and Finnish cultural history. Cinematic representations of Helsinki... -
Stephen King on the Big Screen Mark Browning 9781841502458
SciFier: £25.14From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some... -
Misreading Postmodern Antigone by Jan Jagodzinski
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £27.49In the mid-1980s, film director Marco Bellocchio and renegade psychoanalyst Massimo Fagioli cowrote The Devil in the Flesh, a politically and sexually charged film illustrating some of Fagioli's... -
Sophia Loren: Moulding the Star Pauline Small 9781841502342
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of... -
The Wise Body by Jacky Lansley (Freelance Dance Artist and Director of Dance Research Studio)
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £18.50In The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers, UK choreographers Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early interview twelve distinguished dancers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines who continue... -
Perform, Repeat, Record by Amelia Jones (Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, USA)
RRP: £58.95SciFier: £54.99Bringing together contributors from dance, theatre, visual studies and art history, Perform, Repeat, Record addresses the conundrum of how live art is positioned within history. Set apart from other... -
Rosebud Sleds and Horses' Heads by Scott Jordan Harris (United Kingdom.)
SciFier: £11.99Dorothy's ruby slippers. Michael Myers's mask. Marilyn Monroe's billowy white dress. Indiana Jones's trusty hat. These objects are icons of popular culture synonymous with the films they appear in,... -
Twin Peaks by Franck Boulegue
SciFier: £25.53Few contemporary television shows have been subjected to the critical scrutiny that has been brought to bear on David Lynch and Mark Frost's Twin Peaks since its debut in 1990. Yet the series, and... -
New Irish Storytellers by Diog O'Connell
SciFier: £24.44With the success of such films as the Oscar winner Once, Irish film has been getting well-deserved international attention recently. New Irish Storytellers examines storytelling techniques and... -
World Film Locations: Vienna by Robert Dassanowsky (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)
SciFier: £24.44World Film Locations: Vienna provides a panorama of international motion pictures shot on location in Austria's once imperical capital. Informative reviews of 46 film scenes and evocative essays... -
Saudade in Brazilian Cinema: The History of an Emotion on Film Jack A. Draper III 9781783207633
SciFier: £29.99The Brazilian Portuguese idea of saudade is often translated as a powerful relative of nostalgia, which brings together love and grief, a melancholia and a longing focused on a memory, an absence... -
Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance by Judith Rugg
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it... -
Film, Drama and the Break Up of Britain by steve Blandford
SciFier: £30.16When the sun set on the British Empire, the resultant fragmentation of British identity emerged most tellingly in artistic works: cinematic works such as Howards End depicted a richly historical land... -
World Film Locations: Mumbai by Helio San Miguel (The New School)
SciFier: £24.44Fascinating, incommensurable and chaotic, Mumbai is a megalopolis of dramatic diversity and heartbreaking extremes, where immense wealth is just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums... -
European Identity in Cinema by Wendy Everett (University of Bath, UK)
SciFier: £24.44The identity of European cinema, like the identity of Europe itself, is multiple, complex, and fascinating. Providing both a general survey of contemporary European cinema production, distribution... -
Sydney Street Style by Vicki Karaminas (Massey University, New Zealand)
RRP: £25.95SciFier: £23.99Style is predominantly an individual matter - the way people put themselves together creates a sense of individual identity - but collectively it creates a sense of common culture in a community, a... -
Fan Phenomena: The Rocky Horror Picture Show by Marisa C. Hayes
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26When The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released in 1975, it initially received an indifferent reception in movie theatres, but it began to gain notoriety after it was embraced by audiences at... -
Fan Phenomena: Mermaids by Matthieu Guitton
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Disney's Princess Ariel would give anything to be 'where the people are', but little does she know there's an ever-growing fan base of humans dying to be down in the ocean where she is. Movies like... -
World Film Locations: Florence by Alberto Zambenedetti (University of Toronto)
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Florence, with its rich history, privileged place in the canon of Western art, and long-standing relationship with the moving image, is a cinematic city equal to Venice or Rome. World Film Locations:... -
Film on the Faultline by Alan Wright
SciFier: £33.99Film has always played a crucial role in the imagination of disaster. The earthquake, especially, transforms our understanding of the limits and possibilities of cinema, as well as of life itself... -
Directory of World Cinema: Britain 2 by Neil Mitchell
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.28The first volume of the Directory of World Cinema: Britain provided an overview of British cinema from its earliest days to the present. In this, the second volume, the contributors focus on specific... -
The Visceral Screen by Robert Furze
SciFier: £71.60Narrative and spectacle describe two extremes of film content, but the oeuvres of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg resist such categorization. Instead, Robert Furze argues, the defining... -
World Film Locations: Sydney by Neil Mitchell
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.49The capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia, Sydney has been represented onscreen since the earliest days of cinema. An eclectic combination of tough inner-city suburbs,... -
Directory of World Cinema: Africa by Blandine Stefanson (University of Adelaide, Australia)
RRP: £46.95SciFier: £43.98Eschewing the postcolonial hubris that suggests Africa could only define itself in relation to its colonizers, a problem plaguing many studies published in the West on African cinema, this entry in... -
Passion of the Reel by Jean-Olivier Tchouaffe (Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas)
SciFier: £77.38Highlighting the challenges faced by a nascent national cinema with limited resources, Passion of the Reel provides an in-depth analysis of the output of the Cameroonian film industry. Jean-Olivier... -
Photocinema by Neil Campbell
SciFier: £37.55Taking as its starting point the notion of photocinema - or the interplay of the still and moving image - the photographs, interviews, and critical essays in this volume explore the ways in which the...