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Tyler Perry: Interviews Janice D. Hamlet 9781496824592
RRP: $50.09SciFier: $36.78A 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... -
Colonialism and Nationalism in Asian Cinema Wimal Dissanayake 9780253208958
RRP: $30.22SciFier: $25.00" . . . 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... -
The Non-Professional Actor by Dr. Catherine O'Rawe (Bristol University, UK)
SciFier: $58.57Provides the first critical overview of acting, stardom, and performance in post-war Italian film (1945-54), with special attention to the figure of the non-professional actor, who looms large in... -
Italy in Early American Cinema by Giorgio Bertellini
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $33.68Giorgio 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... -
Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium Thomas Stubblefield 9780520339620
RRP: $56.70SciFier: $47.12What 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 9780520339613
RRP: $134.19SciFier: $123.57What 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: $126.61'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... -
Early Cinema in Asia Nick Deocampo 9780253025548
RRP: $62.37SciFier: $51.84Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130199
RRP: $246.74SciFier: $223.95For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
The Problematic Tyler Perry Brian C. Johnson 9781433130182
RRP: $63.32SciFier: $59.52For the past decade or more, few Hollywood stars have experienced a more meteoric rise than Tyler Perry. As much as he is lauded by fans, Perry is panned by cultural critics who reject his work as... -
Corpse de Ballet Megan Kearney 9781250824585
RRP: $49.12SciFier: $31.73Arriving at Saint Anselmus in the middle of the year, Rosamund Hammond is ready to practice hard and prove she deserves to be there. But something at this boarding school doesn't feel right. It... -
Melodrama Unveiled by David Grimsted
RRP: $54.81SciFier: $51.96David Grimsted's "Melodrama Unveiled" explores early American drama to try to understand why such severely limited plays were so popular for so long. Concerned with both the plays and the dramatic... -
Marina Abramovic Ossian Ward 9781913947514
RRP: $28.33SciFier: $19.77Marina Abramovic has truly pioneered performance as a visual art form. Her work - notorious for its feats of endurance, pain and intense physical encounter - has pushed the boundaries of contemporary... -
Lyric Theology by Thomas Gardner
RRP: $105.84SciFier: $89.98Art is an outworking of God's creative process, a tangible participation in the shaping of the world. Through our artistic endeavors, we both express our understanding of creation and imbue that... -
Early Cinema in Asia Nick Deocampo 9780253025364
RRP: $156.87SciFier: $125.82Early Cinema in Asia explores how cinema became a popular medium in the world's largest and most diverse continent. Beginning with the end of Asia's colonial period in the 19th century, contributors... -
360 Degrees Circus: Meaning. Practice. Culture Franziska Trapp 9781032138527
SciFier: $76.09This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 Degrees view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic... -
Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning Ignatius Chukwumah 9780367593605
SciFier: $77.74Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and... -
The Performative Representations of Masculinity in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema by Justin Russell Greene
SciFier: $147.40In this book, Justin Russell Greene examines how Quentin Tarantino uses his auteur identity to further cement the masculine tropes of Hollywood - and ultimately, society - through language, visual... -
Ingmar Bergman Revisited - Performance, Cinema, and the Arts Maaret Koskinen 9781905674343
RRP: $158.76SciFier: $129.50Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674343Author Maaret KoskinenFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher... -
Towards Embodied Performance: Directing and the Art of Composition Rachel Dickstein 9781032377711
SciFier: $74.45Towards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunning, sonically immersive, and physically rigorous... -
Performing Women: Stand-Ups, Strumpets and Itinerants Alison Oddey 9781403948779
SciFier: $90.70Alison Oddey's interviews with prominent performing women span generations, cultures, perspectives, practice and the best part of the twentieth-century, telling various stories collectively... -
Ageing, Dementia and Time in Film: Temporal Performances MaoHui Deng 9781474486989
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $35.31Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474486989Author MaoHui DengFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher... -
100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember by John DiLeo
SciFier: $32.11Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109721Author John DiLeoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight... -
Ingmar Bergman Revisited - Performance, Cinema, and the Arts Maaret Koskinen 9781905674336
RRP: $47.25SciFier: $39.86Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905674336Author Maaret KoskinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher... -
Camp Sylvania Julie Murphy 9780063114036
SciFier: $15.65From Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', comes a hilarious and creepy middle grade summer camp story that takes a bite out of fat camp and diet culture. Perfect for... -
Film and Memory in East Germany Anke Pinkert 9780253219671
RRP: $39.67SciFier: $32.36Anke Pinkert explores films produced in the Soviet Occupation Zone and East Germany from the end of World War II through the early 1960s, offering new insights into how Germans dealt with the... -
Corpse de Ballet Megan Kearney 9781250824592
RRP: $37.78SciFier: $25.69Arriving at Saint Anselmus in the middle of the year, Rosamund Hammond is ready to practice hard and prove she deserves to be there. But something at this boarding school doesn't feel right. It... -
The Spectaculars by Jodie Garnish
RRP: $24.55SciFier: $15.72The Greatest Showman Nevermoor, The Spectaculars is the enchanting new adventure series that combines magic, theatre and danger with a large pinch of starstuff...When three figures arrive at... -
Eloquent Gestures by Roberta Pearson
RRP: $51.03SciFier: $45.78Between 1908 and 1913, D. W. Griffith played a key role in the reformulating of film's narrative techniques, thus contributing to the creation of what we now think of as the classical Hollywood... -
Popular Performance Adam Ainsworth (Kingston University, London, UK) 9781474247344
SciFier: $196.54There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760063
SciFier: $51.01The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its... -
The Thrill Makers: Celebrity, Masculinity, and Stunt Performance Jacob Smith 9780520270886
RRP: $151.20SciFier: $137.95Well before Evel Knievel or Hollywood stuntmen, reality television or the X Games, North America had a long tradition of stunt performance, of men (and some women) who sought media attention and... -
Performing Moving Images: Access, Archives and Affects Senta Siewert 9781041184065
RRP: $86.92SciFier: $79.38Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned... -
The Knowing Body: The Artist as Storyteller in Contemporary Performance Louise Steinman 9781556432026
RRP: $34.00SciFier: $28.65Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556432026Author Louise SteinmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760056
SciFier: $213.55The figure of the auteur continues to haunt the study of film, resisting both the poststructuralist charges that pointed to its absence and the histories of production that have described its... -
Contract With The Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s Kathy O'Dell 9780816628872
RRP: $41.56SciFier: $33.83Kathy O'Dell argues that the growth of masochistic performance during the 1970s must be seen in the context of society's response to the Vietnam War and contemporaneous changes in theories of... -
The Oxford Guide to Film Studies 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: $136.12Comprehensive, authoritative, and unique, The Oxford Guide to Film Studies is the up-to-date critical volume on the theories, debates, and approaches to the study of film. A host of international... -
The Routledge Handbook of Disability Arts, Culture, and Media Bree Hadley 9780367659660
SciFier: $88.89In the last 30 years, a distinctive intersection between disability studies - including disability rights advocacy, disability rights activism, and disability law - and disability arts, culture, and... -
Popular Performance Adam Ainsworth (Kingston University, London, UK) 9781350089686
SciFier: $71.80There is no fourth wall in popular performance. The show is firmly rooted in the here and now, and the performers address the audience directly, while the audience answer back with laughter, applause... -
Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race Ann Pellegrini 9780415916868
SciFier: $69.53Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization...