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Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America Mark Lynn Anderson 9780520237117
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the... -
Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender Grayson Lee White 9781513139333
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £12.24A memoir about what it's like when they think you're their daughter, but you know you're their son. For as long as he could remember, Grayson has known he is a boy, not a girl. While... -
Performing Ethics Through Film Style: Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers, Barbet Schroeder and Paul Schrader Edward Lamberti 9781474444019
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £23.76Proposing a relationship between Levinasian ethics and film style, and bringing it into a productive dialogue with theories of performativity, this book explores this influence through three... -
Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale Ryan Bunch (PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University) 9780190843137
RRP: £88.00SciFier: £87.15From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of... -
Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale Ryan Bunch (PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University) 9780190843144
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £27.25From the first stage production of The Wizard of Oz in 1902, to the classic MGM film (1939), to the musicals The Wiz (1975) and Wicked (2003), L. Frank Baum's children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of... -
Music Rights Unveiled: A Filmmaker's Guide to Music Rights and Licensing Brooke Wentz 9781138673311
SciFier: £37.66Music Rights Unveiled provides an inside look at the complex world of music rights for film and video and includes step-by-step guidance to navigate these tricky waters. Authors Brooke Wentz and... -
Sounding New Media by Frances Dyson
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93"Sounding New Media" examines the long-neglected role of sound and audio in the development of new media theory and practice, including new technologies and performance art events, with particular... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284340
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £65.38The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion Vit Sisler 9780367889920
SciFier: £43.73Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve... -
Routledge Handbook of Street Culture Jeffrey Ross 9780367559533
SciFier: £44.60Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge... -
Directing by Simon Usher (Author)
SciFier: £12.74"Simon Usher is one of the most clear headed thinkers about theatre in this country. He taps onto a well of experience spanning four decades with grace and ferocious honesty. He writes with precision... -
Paik's Virtual Archive by Hanna B. Holling
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £46.08In Paik's Virtual Archive, Hanna B. Holling contemplates the identity of multimedia artworks by reconsidering the role of conservation in our understanding of what the artwork is and how it functions... -
Marxism Beyond Marxism Saree Makdisi 9780415914437
SciFier: £37.66These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished... -
In Other Los Angeleses by Meiling Cheng
RRP: £26.00SciFier: £24.49Performance art and Los Angeles, two subjects spectacularly resistant to definitions, illuminate each other in this searching study by Meiling Cheng. A marginal artistic pursuit by choice as well as... -
Twilight of the Idols: Hollywood and the Human Sciences in 1920s America Mark Lynn Anderson 9780520267084
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49"Twilight of the Idols" revisits some of the sensational scandals of early Hollywood to evaluate their importance for our contemporary understanding of human deviance. By analyzing changes in the... -
Shard Cinema by Evan Calder Williams
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Shard Cinema tells an expansive story of how moving images have changed in the last three decades and how they changed us along with them, rewiring the ways we watch, fight, and navigate an unsteady... -
A Hidden History of Film Style: Cinematographers, Directors, and the Collaborative Process Christopher Beach 9780520284357
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.90The image that appears on the movie screen is the direct and tangible result of the joint efforts of the director and the cinematographer. A Hidden History of Film Style is the first study to focus... -
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... -
Craft Notes for Animators: A Perspective on a 21st Century Career Ed Hooks 9781138854345
SciFier: £36.79If Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs represented the Animation industry's infancy, Ed Hooks thinks that the current production line of big-budget features is its artistically awkward... -
Live Fast, Die Young by Lawrence Frascella
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £18.69Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743296182Author Lawrence FrascellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Dotson: My Journey Growing Up Transgender Grayson Lee White 9781513141770
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.34A memoir about what it's like when they think you're their daughter, but you know you're their son. For as long as he could remember, Grayson has known he is a boy, not a girl. While... -
Italian National Cinema Pierre Sorlin 9780415116985
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £36.79From such films as La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves to Cinema Paradiso and Dear Diary, Italian cinema has provided striking images of Italy as a nation and a people. In the first comprehensive study... -
The Routledge Companion to Dance in Asia and the Pacific: Platforms for Change Stephanie Burridge 9780367748760
SciFier: £42.00This Companion documents and celebrates artistic journeys within the framework of rich and complex cultural heritages and traditional dance practices of the Asia-Pacific region. It presents various... -
Chanteuse in the City by Kelley Conway
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Long before Edith Piaf sang "La vie en rose," her predecessors took to the stage of the belle epoque music hall, singing of female desire, the treachery of men, the harshness of working-class life,... -
Superheroes and Identities Mel Gibson 9780367738938
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53Superheroes have been the major genre to emerge from comics and graphic novels, saturating popular culture with images of muscular men and sexy women. A major aspect of this genre is identity in the... -
Greek Tragedy into Film Kenneth MacKinnon 9781138975484
SciFier: £44.60If Greek tragedy is sometimes regarded as a form long dead and buried, both theatre producers and film directors seem slow to accept its interment. Originally published in 1986, this book reflects... -
American Cinema of the 1920s by Lucy Fischer
RRP: £31.00SciFier: £24.89During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. Film studios were... -
Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins Noah Isenberg 9780520235779
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £21.09Edgar G. Ulmer is perhaps best known today for Detour, considered by many to be the epitome of a certain noir style that transcends its B-list origins. But in his lifetime he never achieved the... -
Trauma Cinema: Documenting Incest and the Holocaust Janet Walker 9780520241756
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49Trauma Cinema focuses on a new breed of documentary films and videos that adopt catastrophe as their subject matter and trauma as their aesthetic. Incorporating oral testimony, home-movie footage,... -
Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema Daniel Morgan 9780520273337
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93With "Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema", Daniel Morgan makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Jean-Luc Godard, especially his films and videos since the late 1980s, some of the... -
Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games Fernand Gobet 9780415655651
RRP: £53.99SciFier: £53.26Board games have long fascinated as mirrors of intelligence, skill, cunning, and wisdom. While board games have been the topic of many scientific studies, and have been studied for more than a... -
The Global Film Market Transformation in the Post-Pandemic Era: Production, Distribution and Consumption Qiao Li 9781032478166
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book reviews the development and performance of the global film industry during the COVID-19 pandemic and examines new trends in film production, distribution and consumption through a global... -
Modernizing Costume Design, 1820-1920 Annie Holt 9780367561161
SciFier: £41.13Annie Holt identifies the roots of contemporary Euro-American practices of costume design, in which costumes are an integrated part of the dramaturgy rather than a reflection of an individual... -
What Is Cinema? Volume I by Andre Bazin
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £19.27Andre Bazin's What Is Cinema? (volumes I and II) have been classics of film studies for as long as they've been available and are considered the gold standard in the field of film criticism. Although... -
Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture Siegfried Kracauer 9780520271838
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £24.93Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von... -
Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960 Charles Tepperman 9780520279865
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £28.49From the very beginning of cinema, there have been amateur filmmakers at work. It wasn't until Kodak introduced 16mm film in 1923, however, that amateur moviemaking became a widespread reality, and... -
The Doors of Midnight R.R. Virdi 9781473234031
GollanczRRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.56Some stories are hidden for a reason. All tales have a price. And every debt must be paid.I killed three men as a child and earned myself the name Bloodletter. Then I set fire to the fabled Ashram... -
The Magic Pet Shop Stories: Pugicorn Saves the Show: Book four in a new chapter book series Matilda Rose 9781408374191
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Twinkleton-Under-Beanstalk is having a talent show, and Princess Ava and Pugicorn have been working hard on their act! But their practice is put on pause when a shy Koalacorn comes in and needs help... -
Theatre on Trial by Anna McMullan
RRP: £28.99SciFier: £28.69This book, first published in 1993, is the first full-length analysis of Samuel Beckett's later drama in the context of contemporary critical and performance theory. It employs a close, textual... -
Experiencing Music and Visual Cultures: Threshold, Intermediality, Synchresis Antonio Cascelli (Maynooth University, Ireland) 9780367678623
SciFier: £38.53Bringing the research of musicologists, art historians, and film studies scholars into dialogue, this book explores the relationships between visual art forms and music. The chapters are organized...