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Hail, Hail, Euphoria!: Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made Roy Blount, Jr. 9780061808173
SciFier: £10.74Seventy-seven years ago a slim, agile, quick-witted, self-assured young man, identifying with but transcending his ethnic minority, was summoned to save a nation from financial ruin. As the nation's... -
Eric Rohmer: Interviews Fiona Handyside 9781496802507
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46The 1969 film Ma Nuit chez Maud catapulted its shy academic film director Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) into the limelight, selling over a million tickets in France and earning a nomination for an Academy... -
Vaudeville Humor by Ed Lowry
RRP: £22.95SciFier: £14.71Vaudeville Humor: The Collected Jokes, Routines, and Skits of Ed Lowry contains vaudeville jokes, skits, and routines from the first three decades of the twentieth century originally compiled by... -
A New Pot of Gold by Stephen Prince
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £33.40Facing an economic crisis in the 1980s, the Hollywood industry moved boldly to control the ancillary markets of videotape, video disk, pay-cable and pay-per-view, and the major studios found... -
Adventures of Perception by Scott MacDonald
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £29.99Over the past twenty-five years, Scott MacDonald's kaleidoscopic explorations of independent cinema have become the most important chronicle of avant-garde and experimental film in the United States... -
Acting for the Camera by Tony Barr
SciFier: £12.69Culled from Tony Barr's 40 years' experience as a performer, director and acting teacher in Hollywood, this highly praised handbook provides readers with the practical knowledge they need when... -
Country Music Forever: An A-to-Z Celebration of Icons, Songs and Stories Lauren Black 9781529450125
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £13.33Grab your cowboy hat, shine up your boots and step inside a whole world of heart and heartbreak with this fully illustrated, alphabetical guide to the most beloved music around. From Willie Nelson to... -
Legendary Artists and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £23.49Whether it's Cecil Beaton's flamboyant, classically tailored suits, Frida Kahlo's love of bright color, or Cindy Sherman's penchant for minimalism, an artist's attire often reflects the creative and... -
A Dictionary of the American Avant-Gardes Richard Kostelanetz 9781138577367
SciFier: £42.00For this American edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz has selected from the fuller third edition his... -
Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage Robert S. Bader 9780810134164
RRP: £49.95SciFier: £35.05Before film made them international comedy legends, the MarxBrothers developed their comic skills on stage for twenty-fiveyears. In Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers onStage, Robert S... -
Oscar Wilde Prefigured: Queer Fashioning and British Caricature, 1750-1900 Dominic Janes 9780226358642
SciFier: £35.60"I do not say you are it, but you look it, and you pose at it, which is just as bad," Lord Queensbury challenged Oscar Wilde in the courtroom which erupted in laughter accusing Wilde of posing as a... -
The Lost Weekend: The Complete Screenplay Billy Wilder 9780520218567
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £22.99"The Lost Weekend" swept the 1945 Academy Awards, with nominations for Best Film Editing, Score, and Black and White Cinematography, and Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Actor, and Screenplay. It... -
Bind Me Tighter Still: A Novel Lara Ehrlich 9781636282824
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £17.26AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING, ANIMAL WIFE * WINNER OF CAI EMMONS FICTION AWARD, ERIC HOFFER AWARD, AND FOREWORD INDIE AWARD FINALIST * Lara Ehrlich presents her debut novel, BIND ME TIGHTER STILL "A... -
Masters of Light by Dennis Schaefer
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24Through conversations held with fifteen of the most accomplished contemporary cinematographers, the authors explore the working world of the person who controls the visual look and style of a film... -
Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of The Last Kingdom, Book 2) Amelie Wen Zhao 9780008521424
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £10.13The epic sequel to Song of Silver, Flame Like Night. A fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. Years ago, the Elantian colonizers invaded... -
Pop & Postfeminism: Female Dandyism in Popular Music Nathalie Weidhase (University of Surrey, UK) 9781350515895
SciFier: £30.99Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and disrupts postfeminist notions of femininity, including maintaining a physique conforming to contemporary... -
SCRAMBLUES by mame march
LOVE x LOVERRP: £12.95SciFier: £9.22Kurosaki is the designer in charge of the CD jacket design for the powerhouse musician Eddie. As he sees beyond Eddie's surly exterior and catches a glimpse of the man beneath the affectation, he... -
Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage Robert S. Bader 9780810145757
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £23.86An updated paperback version of the book heralded as "a new benchmark in Marx scholarship" by the Los Angeles Times Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed... -
Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs by Roger Clegg
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.49A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of... -
Show People by Michael Newton
SciFier: £37.16Show People offers a comprehensive history of the film star from Mary Pickford to Andy Serkis, traversing more than one hundred years and drawing on examples from America, Britain, Europe, Asia and... -
The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Third Edition, Expanded and Updated Donald Richie 9780520220379
RRP: £38.00SciFier: £29.43In an epilogue provided for his incomparable study of Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), Donald Richie reflects on Kurosawa's life work of thirty feature films and describes his last, unfinished project, a... -
Grandpa Magic by Allan Zola Kronzek
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £10.99From a professional magician and New York Times bestselling author, 116 tricks, stunts, and brainteasers that will engage the grandchildren and provide giggles, jaw-dropping awe, and wonderful... -
Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture Patricia Joan Saunders 9780813571225
RRP: £33.00SciFier: £28.21Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the... -
Buyers Beware: Insurgency and Consumption in Caribbean Popular Culture Patricia Joan Saunders 9780813571232
RRP: £124.00SciFier: £100.94Buyers Beware offers a new perspective for critical inquiries about the practices of consumption in (and of) Caribbean popular culture. The book revisits commonly accepted representations of the... -
The Essential Television Handbook Peter Jarvis 9780240514451
SciFier: £59.30Television is about saving time and money, hitting deadlines and making the best of what is available. Anticipating the problems is essential when shooting on location - keep this book handy and... -
Anita Loos Rediscovered: Film Treatments and Fiction by Anita Loos, Creator of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Anita Loos 9780520228948
RRP: £35.00SciFier: £33.49Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This unique collection of previously unpublished film... -
Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White (Song of The Last Kingdom, Book 2) Amelie Wen Zhao 9780008521455
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £7.58The epic sequel to Song of Silver, Flame Like Night. A fast-paced, riveting YA fantasy inspired by the mythology and folklore of ancient China. Years ago, the Elantian colonizers invaded... -
Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi Matthew Bannister 9780814345320
RRP: £92.00SciFier: £77.99Eye of the Taika: New Zealand Comedy and the Films of Taika Waititi is the first book-length study of comic film director and media celebrity Taika Waititi. Author Matthew Bannister analyses... -
Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice Steve Gibson 9781032252681
SciFier: £52.40This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in... -
The Jodorowsky Library: Book Six by Alejandro Jodorowsky
HumanoidsRRP: £29.99SciFier: £21.69The sixth installation of The Jodorowsky Library: a collection of deluxe matching volumes showcasing the iconic works of the legendary Alejandro Jodorowsky.Included in this volume are two of... -
Sunset Boulevard by Billy Wilder
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £18.79"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay... -
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The Greatest Magician in the World Matt Edmondson 9781509806188 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £2.61Elliot is mad about magic. Completely and utterly mad. It's all he talks about, all he thinks about, and even all he dreams about! And it's not surprising, because magic is in Elliot's blood. His... -
The Comic Event: Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present Professor Judith Roof (Rice University, USA) 9781501354885
SciFier: £36.99The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious... -
From Silents to Sound: A Biographical Encyclopedia of Performers Who Made the Transition to Talking Pictures Roy Liebman 9780786440627
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Garbo talked, Gilbert self-destructed and Chaplin refused - that's about all many people know about silent film actors who faced the transition into talking pictures. Yes, Greta Garbo's talkie debut... -
Apocalypse Taco Nathan Hale 9781419733734
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £10.69Sid, Axl, and Ivan volunteer to make a late-night fast-food run for the high school theater crew, and when they return, they find themselves. Not in a deep, metaphoric sense: They find copies of... -
Great Reckonings in Little Rooms by Bert O. States
RRP: £27.00SciFier: £24.99This is a book about the theater phenomenon. It is an extension of notes on the theater and theatergoing that have been accumulating for some time. It does not have an argument, or set out to prove a... -
Sixguns and Society by Will Wright
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.24From the Preface: The purpose of this book is to explain the Western's popularity. While the Western itself may seem simple (it isn't quite), an explanation of its popularity cannot be; for the... -
John Ford, Revised and Enlarged Edition by Peter Bogdanovich
RRP: £24.00SciFier: £22.84This book provides an intimate and affectionate view of one of Hollywood's most admired directors. The fifty-year career of John Ford (1895-1973) included six Academy Awards, four New York Film... -
Double Indemnity: The Complete Screenplay Billy Wilder 9780520218482
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £19.73On every level - writing, direction, acting - "Double Indemnity" (1944) is a triumph and stands as one of the greatest achievements in Billy Wilder's career. Adapted from the James M. Cain novel by... -
The Tactile Eye: Touch and the Cinematic Experience Jennifer M. Barker 9780520258426
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £25.07"The Tactile Eye" expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M...