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Chekhov: A Biographical and Critical Study Ronald Hingley 9780367725846
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £27.59This book, first published in 1950, is a balanced examination of Chekhov's life and work, a critical analysis of his stories and plays set against the background of his life the Russia of the day... -
To Be A Playwright Janet Neipris 9780367183264
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £30.61Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques... -
Embracing Neurodiverse Perspectives in Storytelling: Storytelling Beyond Conventional Boundaries Nicko Vaughan 9781041045373
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53This book offers a bold alternative to conventional screenwriting guides, empowering neurodiverse writers - and anyone seeking a fresh perspective - to rethink the rules of mainstream storytelling... -
Magical Realism in Africa: Literary and Dramatic Explorations Sarali Gintsburg 9781032613741
RRP: £42.99SciFier: £39.39Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusive approach, drawing on contributions from... -
Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific Larissa Hjorth 9780415535892
SciFier: £45.46This collection explores the relationship between digital gaming and its cultural context by focusing on the burgeoning Asia-Pacific region. Encompassing key locations for global gaming production... -
Pasternak: A Biography Ronald Hingley 9780367753375
SciFier: £32.46This biographical study, first published in 1985, draws on extensive newly available material and illuminates the life and work of a man who lived through one of the most turbulent periods of Russian... -
Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities Michael Berube 9780415908061
SciFier: £53.10The contributors to this collection explore why--and how--higher education in America under attack.About the AuthorMichael Berube and Cary Nelson both teach at the University of Illinois at... -
American Political Movies: An Annotated Filmography of Feature Films James Combs 9781138990388
SciFier: £43.73Essays here explore the relationship between politics and explicitly political feature films from the beginning of the movie industry to World War I, and for each decade through to the 1980's. The... -
The Producer's Business Handbook: The Roadmap for Balanced Film Producers John J. Lee, Jr. 9781032890401
RRP: £56.99SciFier: £51.54The Producer's Business Handbook, Fifth Edition pulls back the curtain on today's global motion picture economy-revealing how producers may best navigate streaming, AI, and the new financial models... -
Remote Producing for Film and Video: The Off-Site Producer's Guide to Film, Television, and Live Events Nick Mackintosh-Smith 9781041032120
SciFier: £42.49This book is a comprehensive guide to remote producing for film and video, exploring how guiding visual media from a distance can improve efficiency, encourage sustainability, and reduce costs by... -
British Cinema and a Divided Nation John White 9781474481038
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £18.68Offers contemporary context of Britain as a deeply divided society as reflected in film Analyses Britain's contested understandings of its past, present and future Examines the various ways... -
The Prop Building Guidebook: For Theatre, Film, and TV Eric Hart (Professional Prop Builder, New York, NY, USA) 9781032154619
SciFier: £37.92Features step-by-step guides to common processes used by all prop makers.Includes descriptions and images of the most common tools used in various crafts.Covers carpentry, metal-work, plastics... -
The Russian Horizon: An Anthology N. Gangulee 9780367724023
SciFier: £29.86This book, first published in 1943, is a literary anthology purposefully presenting a picture of the Soviet Union to a new audience in the West. It collects together a rich variety of... -
Horror, The Film Reader Mark Jancovich 9780415235617
SciFier: £117.75Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The... -
Narration in the Fiction Film David Bordwell 9780415018777
SciFier: £34.03First Published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorDavid BordwellReviews'This book is of crucial importance to film specialists. I cannot think... -
The Aesthetics of Videogames Jon Robson 9780367591946
SciFier: £43.73This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. Videogames represent one of the most significant developments in the modern popular arts, and it... -
Scene-writing for Film and TV Simon van der Borgh 9781032277554
SciFier: £27.25Focusing on an integral aspect of screenplays, this book takes students and writers at all levels through the process of understanding and writing better scenes. It interrogates the functions of a... -
Finance for Film and Television: A Guide to Film Accounting Marie Barnas 9781041032052
RRP: £41.99SciFier: £38.53This text provides a clear and comprehensive overview of the day-to-day financial management of film and television productions.This book begins by exploring the essential facets of film accounting,... -
Post-Work Stanley Aronowitz 9780415917834
SciFier: £41.13In Post-Work, Stanley Aronowitz and Jonathan Cutler have collected essays from a variety of scholars to discuss the dreary future of work. The introduction, ThePost-Work Manifesto,, provides the... -
Russian Writers and Soviet Society 1917-1978 Ronald Hingley 9780367775377
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1979, provides a systematic anatomy of Russia's modern authors in the context of their society at the time. Post-revolutionary Russian literature has made a profound... -
The Accountant's Magazine: An Anthology Colin Storrar 9780367533472
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1986, contains a series of articles from The Accountants' Magazine from the early years of the twentieth century. They provide insights into the development of... -
Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism Brian McIlroy (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9780415512756
RRP: £50.99SciFier: £46.33This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key... -
Beckett the Playwright by John Fletcher
SciFier: £29.86This book, first published in 1985, stresses Beckett's success as an innovator in the theatre through a close reading and analysis of his plays. The differing backgrounds of the two authors enables... -
Hollywood in the Age of Television Tino Balio (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) 9781138971912
SciFier: £46.16This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and... -
Contesting the Super Bowl Dona Schwartz 9780415919531
SciFier: £25.45First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorDona Schwartz is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of... -
Biopolitical Media by Allen Meek
RRP: £29.99SciFier: £29.86This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others... -
Soviet Prose: A Reader Ronald Hingley 9780367725990
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.69This book, first published in 1959, contains passages with commentary from 12 of the most important Soviet authors. They are lively and typical passages, written in varying styles, depicting... -
Fifty Key Improv Performers: Actors, Troupes, and Schools from Theatre, Film, and TV Matt Fotis 9781032414218
SciFier: £19.48Fifty Key Improv Performers highlights the history, development, and impact of improvisational theatre by highlighting not just key performers, but institutions, training centers, and movements to... -
Teaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators Jennifer Flitton Adams 9780367608415
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £35.93Teaching Costume Design and Costume Rendering: A Guide for Theatre and Performance Educators clarifies the teaching process for Costume Design and Costume Rendering courses and offers a clear and... -
Understanding Health Psychology Through the Works of Stephen King: Getting Under Your Skin Crista Crittenden 9781032802077
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.19Not just your regular textbook, this unique book uses popular culture as a teaching tool by taking the work of Stephen King, America's top horror writer, to illustrate concepts that are essential to... -
Salman Rushdie and Visual Culture: Celebrating Impurity, Disrupting Borders Ana Cristina Mendes 9781138847248
SciFier: £46.33In Salman Rushdie's novels, images are invested with the power to manipulate the plotline, to stipulate actions from the characters, to have sway over them, seduce them, or even lead them astray... -
Costuming the Curve: Dressing Bodies of Size for the Stage, Screen, and Life Jeannie Galioto 9780367524944
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.25Costuming the Curve: Dressing Bodies of Size for the Stage, Screen, and Life is a groundbreaking and practical guide that redefines how designers approach body diversity in performance.This book... -
The Politics of Ephemeral Digital Media: Permanence and Obsolescence in Paratexts Sara Pesce 9781138319745
SciFier: £44.60In the age of "complex Tv", of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and TV programs raising questions about the endurance... -
Fifty Key Video Games Bernard Perron (University of Montreal, Canada) 9781032053608
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.53- The first book dedicated to exploring key video games from the 1970s to present day. - Provides a highly accessible overview of the history of video games from PONG, Pac-Man and Tetris to... -
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (Vol 2) by J.C. Mardrus
SciFier: £37.49The second volume of this accurate translation of the wonderful and enchanting tales of the Arabian nights.Book InformationISBN 9780415045407Author J.C. MardrusFormat PaperbackPage Count 602Imprint... -
American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows Lisa Funnell 9781138305854
SciFier: £48.06Critics frequently describe the influence of "America," through Hollywood and other cultural industries, as a form of cultural imperialism. This unidirectional model of interaction does not address,... -
From Gorky to Pasternak: Six Modern Russian Writers Helen Muchnic 9780367740993
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1961, traces the lives and works of six outstanding Russian authors, each of whom is interesting and important in himself, as well as for his contribution to Russian... -
Horror, The Film Reader Mark Jancovich 9780415235624
SciFier: £44.60Horror, The Film Reader brings together key articles to provide a comprehensive resource for students of horror cinema. Mark Jancovich's introduction traces the development of horror film from The... -
25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943) Gleb Struve 9780367723934
SciFier: £32.46This book, first published in 1944, is a comprehensive survey of post-revolutionary Russian literature up to the early 1940s. A huge range of writers are examined, and the analysis is made in the... -
Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena Arpad Szakolczai 9781138920668
SciFier: £38.53The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an...