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Nichols and May: Interviews Robert E. Kapsis 9781496831040
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £19.46In the late 1950s, Mike Nichols (1931-2014) and Elaine May (b. 1932) soared to superstar status as a sketch comedy duo in live shows and television. After their 1962 breakup, both went on to long and... -
Last Man Standing by James Curtis
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £28.31On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl (b. 1927) took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a... -
Moviemakers' Master Class Laurent Tirard 9780571211029
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.69From Scorsese and Lynch to Wenders and Godard: interviews with twenty of the world's greatest directors on how they make films - and why.Each great film-maker has a secret method to his moviemaking -... -
Faking it by Craig Hight
SciFier: £22.99The first major study of mock-documentary - one of a number of screen forms that play with the assumed boundaries between 'fact' and 'fiction'. Examines mock-documentary through the specific... -
Images by Ingmar Bergman
SciFier: £23.39Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628727012Author Ingmar BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher... -
New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics: Structuralism, post-structuralism and beyond Robert Stam 9780415065955
RRP: £36.99SciFier: £35.99First published in 1992. New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics provides a comprehensive lexicon of semiotic concepts. With sections on linguistics, narratology, psychoanalysis and intertextuality, it... -
Class, Language, and American Film Comedy Christopher Beach (University of California, Irvine) 9780521002097
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £37.89This book examines the evolution of American film comedy through the lens of language and the portrayal of social class. Christopher Beach argues that class has been an important element in the... -
Cinema and Landscape by Graeme Harper (Oakland University, USA)
SciFier: £24.00The notion of landscape is a complex one, but it has been central to the art and artistry of the cinema. After all, what is the French New Wave without Paris? What are the films of Sidney Lumet,... -
Love, Sex, Death, And The Meaning Of Life by Foster Hirsch
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £14.24Woody Allen has carved out a unique place for himself in American movies, becoming our national auteur as well as the most prolific director in the country, and creating a singular world with each... -
The Boys by Scott Allen Nollen
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21The Boys provides new ways to view and evaluate the work of this famous comedy team. The initial chapter summarizes the critical reception of the two and compares Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to... -
The Comic Mind by Gerald Mast
SciFier: £34.39Although books on the comedies of the silent era abound, few have attempted to survey film comedy as a whole-its history and evolution, how the philosophical visions of its greatest artists and... -
A Political Companion to American Film by Gary Crowdus
SciFier: £34.05The Political Companion to American Film is an encyclopedic collection of critical essays offering provocative social and political commentary on the work of filmmakers (from Woody Allen to Darryl... -
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George Lucas: A Biography John Baxter 9780002570091 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £2.76George Lucas is one of the most innovative bigtime players on the movie scene. His three "Star Wars" films and the trio featuring the action hero Indiana Jones (all six of which Lucas conceived,... -
City That Never Sleeps by Murray Pomerance
SciFier: £36.41New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place... -
Intimacy in Cinema by David Roche
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £24.81Though intimacy has been a wide concern in the humanities, it has received little critical attention in film studies. This collection of new essays investigates both the potential intimacy of... -
Romance Film by Norman Kagan
SciFier: £27.99Romance Film is a critical history of significant romance films from Hollywood and abroad. Kagan discusses, among others, Marlene Dietrich in Blue Angel, Rita Hayworth in Gilda, Marlon Brando in A... -
The Haunted Smile by Lawrence Epstein
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.74Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength... -
The Last Laugh by Phil Berger
SciFier: £16.70The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers deep into the bizarre universe of the standup comic, from the classic years of Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Shecky Greene, to today's comedy... -
Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader Frank Krutnik 9780415235525
SciFier: £42.00Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393247879
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £21.02In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
World Film Locations: Barcelona by Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £22.26Barcelona is one of the world's most beautiful cities. A permanent showcase of the work of acclaimed architect Antoni Gaudi, it also has a long and rich cinematic legacy. Great directors from all... -
Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials Jennifer Caplan 9780814347300
RRP: £94.00SciFier: £62.20In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do... -
Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies: The Screenwriters Guide to 50 Films from the Masters Salva Rubio 9780984157662
RRP: £19.50SciFier: £18.79In his best-selling book, Save the Cat! (R) Goes to the Movies, Blake Snyder provided 50 "beat sheets" to 50 films, mostly studio-made. Now his student, Salva Rubio, applies Blake's principles to 50... -
Legal Reelism by John Denvir
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67Law and and justice are important themes in film, not only in courtroom dramas, but also in the western, the film noir, even the documentary. In the Godfather trilogy Francis Ford Coppola shows that... -
Funny, You Don't Look Funny: Judaism and Humor from the Silent Generation to Millennials Jennifer Caplan 9780814347317
RRP: £36.95SciFier: £23.34In this comprehensive approach to Jewish humor focused on the relationship between humor and American Jewish practice, Jennifer Caplan calls us to adopt a more expansive view of what it means to "do... -
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Burt Reynolds - But Enough About Me Burt Reynolds 9781910536209 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £2.22In But Enough About Me, legendary film actor and Hollywood superstar Burt Reynolds recalls the people who shaped his life and career, for better or for worse. From Robert Altman, Cary Grant, Clint... -
Robin Williams, American Master: The Movies and Art of a Lost Genius Stephen Spignesi 9781642935295
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £13.93A comprehensive guide to all of Robin Williams's movies, with facts about plots, performances, and cast, as well as notable trivia and behind-the-scenes details about each film.Did you know that,... -
Martin Scorsese by Tom Shone
SciFier: £30.53Impeccably designed, and copiously illustrated with more than two hundred stills and behind-the-scenes images, this is the definitive celebration of one of cinema's most enduring talents. Since... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History Jeremy Dauber (Columbia University) 9780393356298
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £12.39In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
Comedy Tonight! by Jay Malarcher
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.56For centuries scholars, philosophers, and practitioners have attempted to explain just what constitutes comedy, and though no one has come close to a definitive explanation, each attempt highlights... -
Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema Todd Berliner 9780292722798
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £37.61In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as... -
Duck Soup J. Hoberman (film critic, journalist and author, New York, USA) 9781839022258
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.50The Marx Brothers are universally considered to be classic Hollywood's preeminent comedy team and Duck Soup is generally regarded as their quintessential film. A topical satire of dictatorship and... -
Parody as Film Genre by Wes D. Gehring
SciFier: £78.49Parody is the least appreciated of all film comedy genres and receives little serious attention, even among film fans. This study elevates parody to mainstream significance. A historical overview... -
New York Movies (Close-Ups, Book 3) Mark Asch 9780008256647
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £6.83The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to New York movies, from Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen to Lena Dunham and Noah Baumbach. ALSO... -
Hollywood Incoherent: Narration in Seventies Cinema Todd Berliner 9780292737525
RRP: £22.99SciFier: £18.67In the 1970s, Hollywood experienced a creative surge, opening a new era in American cinema with films that challenged traditional modes of storytelling. Inspired by European and Asian art cinema as... -
Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s Stanley Corkin (Professor of English, Professor of English, University of Cincinnati) 9780195382808
SciFier: £47.66Starring New York considers twenty-one films in detail, and more generally discusses many others, that were shot on location and released between 1968 and 1981. Corkin looks at their complex... -
Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen Henry Carl Bial 9780472069088
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £19.97The history of the American entertainment industry and the history of the Jewish people in the United States are inextricably intertwined. Jews have provided Broadway and Hollywood with some of their... -
Performing Authorship: Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema Cecilia Sayad 9781780760056
SciFier: £113.99The 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... -
Happy Accidents Tiffany Murray 9780007183678
SciFier: £9.99Coming of age in rural England in the eighties is far from straightforward for Kate Happy, in a hilarious, highly-praised debut novel of family, secrets and dead ancestors in the attic. ... -
Clint Eastwood: Interviews, Revised and Updated Robert E. Kapsis 9781617036620
RRP: £109.00SciFier: £91.49Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) is the only popular American dramatic star to have shaped his own career almost entirely through films of his own producing, frequently under his own direction; no other...