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Presence: A Novel Brenda Iijima 9780820365305
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £18.49At Treasure Island, a humanly made island in the San Francisco Bay, a performance troupe dressed in hazmat suits articulate gestures that resemble toxic remediation. As they become more attuned to... -
Digital Performance in Everyday Life Lyndsay Michalik Gratch 9781138342149
SciFier: £36.79Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564968
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £91.49There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single... -
Hollywood Stunt Performers, 1910s-1970s by Gene Scott Freese
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £25.51This book is a biographical A to Z guide to several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created some of the cinema's greatest action scenes without credit or recognition. The time period covered... -
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen Victoria Lowe 9781789382334
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £72.75The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in... -
Anatomy of Performance Training by John Matthews (University of Plymouth, UK)
SciFier: £44.38We train because we are human and we become human because we train. This is the surprising and original conclusion of Anatomy of Performance Training, in which John Matthews shows how training is... -
PRESENCE/PERFORMANCE: Directing Actors for the Screen Roger Tucker 9781837091119
RRP: £69.99SciFier: £51.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837091119Author Roger TuckerFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Vektor PublishingPublisher Vektor... -
Celluloid Singapore: Cinema, Performance and the National Edna Lim 9781474402880
SciFier: £93.01Examines how Singapore cinema functions as a national cinema'Celluloid Singapore' is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age... -
Divanorum by Kent Thompson (Denver Center for the Performing Arts USA)
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £14.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542560795Author Kent ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Celluloid Singapore: Cinema, Performance and the National Edna Lim 9781474452250
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £22.77Celluloid Singapore is a ground-breaking study of the three major periods in Singapore's fragmented cinema history, namely the golden age of the 1950s and 60s, the post-studio 1970s, and the revival... -
Food in Film: A Culinary Performance of Communication Jane Ferry 9781138864535
SciFier: £48.06Using an interdisciplinary approach combining film, semiotics, social-anthropology and history, this book examines food sciences in selected films to reveal food's power to direct and impose values... -
Performance Anomalies Victor Robert Lee 9781938409226 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.50SciFier: £6.05Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938409226Author Victor Robert LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Perimeter SixPublisher Perimeter... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9781349357086
SciFier: £46.99Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
Collaborative Embodied Performance by Kath Bicknell (Macquarie University, Australia)
SciFier: £97.99This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy... -
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen Victoria Lowe 9781789387506
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £23.12The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen, examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in... -
Feeding the Eye by Anne Hollander
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99Since the advent of cinema, visual art has tended to be perceived as if it were in motion. Artists now create less often in fresco or carved stone and more on film and tape, on the dance stage, or in... -
Performative Geometries: Transforming Textile Techniques Asterios Agkathidis 9789063692506
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £12.86As in architecture, fashion creates a second skin that can adapt to the human body. Depending on its programming, the skin changes. In terms of spatial organization, we can learn many things from... -
Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century Kelsey Blair 9781032231297
SciFier: £35.93Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of... -
Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics Andrea Goulet 9781783209224
SciFier: £24.44Orphan Black: Performance, Gender, Biopolitics is an edited collection that covers the areas in which the series has generated the most academic interest: performance and technology; gender and... -
Re-Framing the Theatrical: Interdisciplinary Landscapes for Performance A. Oddey 9780230524651
SciFier: £46.99Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively demonstrates the spectator as centre of the artistic experience, a new kind of... -
How to Perform Stand-Up Comedy Successfully by Mliton Hall
RRP: £10.38SciFier: £9.19Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535577724Author Mliton HallFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance Murray Pomerance 9780813564951
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £22.99There are hundreds of biographies of filmstars and dozens of scholarly works on acting in general. But what about the ephemeral yet indelible moments when, for a brief scene or even just a single... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9781349368242
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
The Performance of Law by Randy Gordon (Texas A&M University, USA.)
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analyzed in relation to fiction, theatre, and other dramatic forms.Of necessity, lawyers and judges need to devise... -
Performing Beauty in Participatory Art and Culture Falk Heinrich 9780367869274
SciFier: £41.13This book investigates the notion of beauty in participatory art, an interdisciplinary form that necessitates the audience's agential participation and that is often seen in interactive art and... -
Multi-media: Video - Installation - Performance Nick Kaye 9780415283816
SciFier: £41.83Multi-media charts the development of multi-media video, installation and performance in a unique dialogue between theoretical analysis and specially commissioned documentations by some of the... -
Performing Queer Female Identity on Screen by Jamie L. Stuart
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81The female character has historically existed in film largely as a spectacle, as a performer, as the object of a gaze. We have grown used to seeing female characters in 'performance roles' in movies,... -
The Ultimate Directory of Silent Screen Performers by Billy H. Doyle
SciFier: £113.99Libraries abound with books on silent film history and numerous biographies on the legendary stars, but what about the thousands and thousands of actors who never obtained legendary status? Film... -
The Serious Business of Writing, Performing & Selling Comedy by Brian Luff
RRP: £19.98SciFier: £18.74Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008984271Author Brian LuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
Male Trouble: Masculinity and the Performance of Crisis F. Walsh 9780230579699
SciFier: £92.99A rich analysis of the discourses and figurations of 'crisis masculinity' around the turn of the twenty-first century, working at the intersection of performance and cultural studies and looking at... -
Arab American Drama, Film and Performance by Michael Malek Najjar
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21Beginning with early Arab American playwright, poet and novelist Kahlil Gibran and concluding with contemporary playwright Yussef El Guindi, this book provides an historical overview and critical... -
PRESENCE/PERFORMANCE: Directing Actors for the Screen Roger Tucker 9781837091102
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837091102Author Roger TuckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vektor PublishingPublisher Vektor... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824585
RRP: £91.00SciFier: £90.99A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Tyler Perry: Interviews Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824592
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £19.46A career-spanning volume, Tyler Perry: Interviews collects sixteen interviews, ranging from the early 2000s to 2018. Once a destitute and struggling playwright, Tyler Perry (b. 1969) is now a... -
Developing the Editor's Eye Michael R. Miller 9781032946375
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53In this accessible and informative text, Michael R. Miller draws on his extensive experience working on award-winning films to help readers develop their "eye" for editing.The book begins by... -
Italy in Early American Cinema by Giorgio Bertellini
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.82Giorgio Bertellini traces the origins of American cinema's century-long fascination with Italy and Italian immigrants to the popularity of the pre-photographic aesthetic-the picturesque. Once... -
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema Wimal Dissanayake 9780253208958
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £13.23" . . . an important collective work for communication practitioners, students, and scholars who want to have a deeper understanding of film making in Asia and of the promotion of nationalism through... -
Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium Thomas Stubblefield 9780520339613
RRP: £71.00SciFier: £65.38What happens when a drone enters a gallery or appears on screen? What thresholds are crossed as this weapon of war occupies everyday visual culture? These questions have appeared with increasing... -
Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium Thomas Stubblefield 9780520339620
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93What happens when a drone enters a gallery or appears on screen? What thresholds are crossed as this weapon of war occupies everyday visual culture? These questions have appeared with increasing... -
American Cinema and Hollywood by John Hill (Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Performance Studies, University of Ulster at Coleraine)
SciFier: £66.99'The contributors supply skilful overviews of the major critical approaches' Sight and Sound May 1998 Top international contributors Emphasis throughout on critical concepts, methods and...