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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... -
Practices of Relations in Task-Dance and the Event-Score by Josefine Wikstroem
SciFier: £39.99This book takes a new critical approach to the concept of performance as it operates in performance studies and art theory. It constructs a critical concept of performance by understanding it as... -
The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood Lutz Koepnick 9780520233119
RRP: £29.00SciFier: £24.86Lutz Koepnick analyzes the complicated relationship between two cinemas--Hollywood's and Nazi Germany's--in this theoretically and politically incisive study. The Dark Mirror examines the split... -
Siegfried Kracauer's American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture Siegfried Kracauer 9780520271821
RRP: £63.00SciFier: £57.49Siegfried 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... -
Superman in Myth and Folklore by Daniel Peretti
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56Superman rose from popular culture-comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies-but people have so embraced the character that he has now become part of folklore. This... -
Opera as Soundtrack Jeongwon Joe 9781138251526
SciFier: £50.66Filmmakers' fascination with opera dates back to the silent era but it was not until the late 1980s that critical enquiries into the intersection of opera and cinema began to emerge. Jeongwon Joe... -
Celebrating Birds: An Interactive Field Guide Featuring Art from Wingspan Natalia Rojas 9780063045743
RRP: £25.00SciFier: £18.58A gorgeously illustrated and interactive full-color guide to more than 181 birds of North America, based on the bestselling board game, Wingspan.Praised for its gorgeous illustrations, accurate... -
To Be A Playwright Janet Neipris 9780367183264
RRP: £31.99SciFier: £30.61Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques... -
The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait Olivia Gruber Florek 9781644532850
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £28.21Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and... -
Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema: Homeless at Home Inga Scharf 9780415878449
SciFier: £45.46In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation... -
Lost Illusions by David Cook
RRP: £41.00SciFier: £36.44The American film industry transformed itself during the 1970s: a new order emerged out of the chaos of the former studio system. A new rating system freed directors to explore serious subjects but... -
Ride, Boldly Ride by Mary Lea Bandy
RRP: £34.00SciFier: £29.68This comprehensive study of the Western covers its history from the early silent era to recent spins on the genre in films such as "No Country for Old Men", "There Will Be Blood", "True Grit", and... -
Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times by Carl Peters
SciFier: £22.04This book looks at Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece, Modern Times (1936), through the lens of film aesthetics, structure, and post-modern perspective. The naive Tramp character of Modern Times is often... -
Screen Acting Peter Kramer 9780415182942
RRP: £44.99SciFier: £41.13While not everyone would agree with Alfred Hitchcock's notorious remark that 'actors are cattle', there is little understanding of the work film actors do. Yet audience enthusiasm for, or dislike of,... -
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... -
Performing Marginality: Humour, Gender and Cultural Critique Joanne R. Gilbert (Associate Professor of Communications, Alma College, USA) 9780814328033
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £24.49How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as the existence of a "female" and, more specifically,... -
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... -
Late Godard and the Possibilities of Cinema Daniel Morgan 9780520273313
RRP: £59.00SciFier: £48.49With "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... -
Transnational Screens: Expanding the Borders of Transnational Cinema Armida De La Garza 9781032839530
SciFier: £41.13This book marks the 10th anniversary of the Routledge journal Transnational Cinemas, and its renaming to Transnational Screens. The introduction reflects on the changing ways in which film is... -
Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers: Drag in a Changing Scene Volume 1 Mark Edward (Edge Hill University, UK) 9781350082946
SciFier: £97.99In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical... -
To Be A Playwright Janet Neipris 9780367183257
SciFier: £111.36Originally published in 2005, To Be A Playwright is an insightful and detailed guide to the craft of playwriting. Part memoir and part how-to guide, this useful book outlines the tools and techniques... -
Amateur Cinema: The Rise of North American Moviemaking, 1923-1960 Charles Tepperman 9780520279858
RRP: £80.00SciFier: £66.08From 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: The epic Silk Road fantasy adventure R.R. Virdi 9781473234055
GollanczRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.78A breathtaking Silk Road-inspired epic fantasy, an ode to the power of storytelling and an adventure story filled with magic - this is the captivating sequel to The First Binding.Some stories are... -
Five Conversations About Peter Sellers by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £11.67Five Conversations About Peter Sellers is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author's burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing... -
Miranda July by Miranda July
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £31.48From her early rarely seen Riot Grrrl-influenced fanzines and performances to a career that has produced seminal films, fiction, sculptures, public art, and even a smartphone app, Miranda July has... -
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 3 by Haruko Kumota
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.71A multi-generational human drama set in the world of rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese comedic storytelling, Descending Stories follows an ex-convict whose life is changed by his apprenticeship... -
Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju 8 by Haruko Kumota
Kodansha AmericaRRP: £12.99SciFier: £8.75A multi-generational human drama set in the world of rakugo, a traditional form of Japanese comedic storytelling, Descending Stories follows an ex-convict whose life is changed by his apprenticeship... -
Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies Henry A. Giroux 9780415926560
SciFier: £37.66Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the...