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The British Film Industry in the 1970s: Capital, Culture and Creativity S. Barber 9780230360952
SciFier: £46.99Is there more to 1970s British cinema than sex, horror and James Bond? This lively account argues that this is definitely the case and explores the cultural landscape of this much maligned decade to... -
Wagner and Cinema by Jeongwon Joe
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16The work of Richard Wagner is a continuing source of artistic inspiration and ideological controversy in literature, philosophy, and music, as well as cinema. In Wagner and Cinema, a diverse group of... -
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... -
Landscape and the Moving Image Catherine Elwes (Independent Scholar) 9781789385687
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £85.99Elwes takes a journey through the twin histories of landscape art and experimental moving image and discovers how they coalesce in the work of artists from the 1970s to the present day. Drawing on... -
Death Warrant Bryan Johnston 9780744305241
RRP: £14.95SciFier: £12.58Death Makes Great TV.Frankie Percival is cashing in her chips. To save her brother from financial ruin, Frankie-a single stage performer and mentalist who never made it big-agrees to be assassinated... -
Presence: A Novel Brenda Iijima 9780820365305
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £18.29At 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... -
Wolf Won't Bite! Emily Gravett 9781509884728
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Take your seat in the front row and watch in wonder as three cheeky little circus pigs make a wild wolf jump through hoops (literally), endure feats of astounding derring-do, and even withstand... -
Spielberg's Holocaust by Yosefa Loshitzky
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"This anthology of essays on Steven Spielberg's 1993 film is a solid achievement. It is a repository of considerable critical insight and frequently passionate argument." -Holocaust and Genocide... -
Ian Fleming and James Bond by Edward P. Dallis-Comentale
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12"This is a compelling and important book . . . [that] makes a significant contribution not only to studies of Bond and Ian Fleming but also to studies of popular culture in general." -Michael... -
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... -
Johnny Depp Starts Here by Murray Pomerance
SciFier: £34.36From beloved bad-boy to cool and captivating maverick, Johnny Depp has inspired media intrigue and has been the source of international acclaim since the early 1990s. He has attracted attention for... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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: £9.09Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535577724Author Mliton HallFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing...