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Ozu by Donald Richie
RRP: $40.31SciFier: $33.78"Substantially the book that devotees of the director have been waiting for: a full-length critical work about Ozu's life, career and working methods, buttressed with reproductions of pages from his... -
Amphigorey Also Edward Gorey 9780156056724
RRP: $37.52SciFier: $27.13Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156056724Author Edward GoreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint -
Red vs. Blue by Rooster Teeth
SciFier: $20.95In Red vs. Blue, its creators at Rooster Teeth brings together more than a decades' worth of ephemera and behind-the-scenes information from the popular comedic web series, including: * Character... -
Escaping From Houdini Kerri Maniscalco 9780316551700
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $15.18Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the... -
Directing the Decades: Lessons from Fifty Years of Becoming a Director Sue Dunderdale 9780367686550
SciFier: $49.71- Each historical chapter is followed by a process chapter giving the explication of a detailed rehearsal methodology useful to both directors and actors.- The process chapters include objectives,... -
Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity Anahid Kassabian 9780520275157
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.46How does the constant presence of music in modern life - on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television - affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only... -
Acting for the Camera: Back to One Peter Allen Stone 9780367500726
SciFier: $46.33Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a "how to" book with practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera. The book focuses on four distinct areas: how to prepare the character, how... -
Translation and Adaptation in Theatre and Film Katja Krebs 9781032926711
SciFier: $55.96This book provides a pioneering and provocative exploration of the rich synergies between adaptation studies and translation studies and is the first genuine attempt to discuss the rather loose usage... -
Five Films by Frederick Wiseman: Titicut Follies, High School, Welfare, High School II, Public Housing Frederick Wiseman 9780520244573
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $35.63Frederick Wiseman is among America's foremost documentary filmmakers. The recipient of many awards, including three Emmys, Wiseman has made more than thirty feature-length documentaries during a... -
Unicorn Princesses 9: The Moonbeams by Emily Bliss
RRP: $8.33SciFier: $7.35Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781547604838Author Emily BlissFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint -
Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts David McGowan 9781477317433
RRP: $109.81SciFier: $86.46A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century,... -
Escaping From Houdini Kerri Maniscalco 9780316551724
RRP: $15.28SciFier: $11.08Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her partner-in-crime-investigation, Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York to help solve another blood-soaked mystery. Embarking on a week-long voyage across the... -
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture Eric Herhuth 9780520292550
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $90.88In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of... -
Creating Improvised Theatre: Tools, Techniques, and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation Mark Jane 9780367707491
SciFier: $48.73Creating Improvised Theatre: Tools, Techniques, and Theories for Short Form and Narrative Improvisation is a complete guide to improvised theatre for performers and instructors.This book provides a... -
The Fifties by Peter Lev
RRP: $50.04SciFier: $48.86Completing the landmark, award-winning, ten-volume series on the first century of American film, The Fifties covers a particularly tumultuous period. Peter Lev explores the divorce of movie studios... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Keya Ganguly 9780520262171
RRP: $41.70SciFier: $39.60Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely... -
Myrna Loy by Emily W. Leider
SciFier: $36.96From the beginning, Myrna Loy's screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This... -
Laughing Out Loud: Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay Andrew Horton 9780520220157
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.96Whoever wrote "Make 'em laugh!" knew that it's easier said than done. But people love to laugh, and good comedy will always sell. With the help of this complete and entertaining guide, writers and... -
Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising Hillary Haft Bucs 9781032152042
SciFier: $47.52Embodied Playwriting: Improv and Acting Exercises for Writing and Devising is the first book to compile new and adapted exercises for teaching playwriting in the classroom, workshop, or studio... -
I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies Nicholas Ray 9780520201699
RRP: $40.31SciFier: $38.93One of the most original, rebellious, and idiosyncratic directors in the American cinema, Nicholas Ray lived and worked with an intensity equal to that of his films. Best known for his direction of... -
Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts David McGowan 9781477317440
RRP: $38.91SciFier: $32.33A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century,... -
The Sleigh Queens Save Christmas Sean Casey 9781802637434
RRP: $11.11SciFier: $9.23Celebrate Christmas in drag-queen style! One magical Christmas Eve, three fabulous drag queens are finishing their spectacular show when a sleigh crashes through the ceiling. As a sad Santa... -
Photography Theory James Elkins 9780415977838
SciFier: $54.75Photography Theory presents forty of the world's most active art historians and theorists, including Victor Burgin, Joel Snyder, Rosalind Krauss, Alan Trachtenberg, Geoffrey Batchen, Carol Squiers,... -
New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality Anna Everett 9780415939966
SciFier: $54.75The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed the public from... -
Hollywood and the Rise of Physical Culture Heather Addison 9780415762427
SciFier: $78.87This book examines the relationship between cinema and physical culture i.e. activities such as dieting and muscle-building. It presents a case study of Hollywood's impact on the American reducing... -
Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic Mark Wilson 9780762414550
RRP: $27.80SciFier: $23.17The ultimate book of magic for kids from a world-famous magician, complete with photographs for easy to follow instructions. From one of the world's premier practitioners of classic magic, with years... -
Bad Girls and Sick Boys by Linda S. Kauffman
RRP: $37.53SciFier: $32.41Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art,... -
Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity Anahid Kassabian 9780520275164
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $31.96How does the constant presence of music in modern life - on iPods, in shops and elevators, on television - affect the way we listen? With so much of this sound, whether imposed or chosen, only... -
Managing in the Media William Houseley 9780240515991
SciFier: $111.20Managing in the Media has been devised for a broad audience. It is based upon the perceived need for a text that amalgamates cultural theories, film and television analysis, management theories and... -
Cinema, Emergence, and the Films of Satyajit Ray Keya Ganguly 9780520262164
RRP: $111.20SciFier: $101.46Although revered as one of the world's great filmmakers, the Indian director Satyajit Ray is described either in narrowly nationalistic terms or as an artist whose critique of modernity is largely... -
Handling Edna by Barry Humphries
SciFier: $28.48The real story behind Dame Edna, the international superstar!Written by the legendary Barry Humphries himself.'I'm suing!!' Dame Edna Everage'Humphries is Australia's John Betjeman' Mail on... -
Elaine May Elizabeth Alsop 9780252088582
RRP: $23.62SciFier: $20.54A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director's... -
Angelina Ballerina On the Go! (Boxed Set) by Katharine Holabird
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $14.54Sashay into the world of Angelina Ballerina with these six 8x8 storybooks all together in one adorable carry-along paperback boxed set with foil on the cover!Read about Angelina practicing new ballet... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages Martha Bayless 9781350000728
SciFier: $132.04Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the... -
Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination: Animation, Storytelling, and Digital Culture Eric Herhuth 9780520292567
RRP: $34.75SciFier: $32.96In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of... -
The Talkies by Donald Crafton
RRP: $54.21SciFier: $42.42The Talkies offers readers a rare look at the time when sound was a vexing challenge for filmmakers and the source of contentious debate for audiences and critics. Donald Crafton presents a panoramic... -
American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary by Scott MacDonald
RRP: $47.26SciFier: $40.28"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary" is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages Martha Bayless 9781350440777
SciFier: $43.62Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the... -
Krumpkin's Christmas Switch (Red's Rainbow) Red 9781802638592
RRP: $11.11SciFier: $9.23It's time for a SECRET CHRISTMAS SWITCH! They just hope that Santa doesn't find out...! Santa needs lots of helpers to do his job. The reindeer pull the sleigh, the elves wrap the presents, and... -
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien J R R Tolkien 9780063417052
RRP: $48.65SciFier: $30.84Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063417052Author J R R TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint