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Performative Images: A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France Anais Nony 9781041184003
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00Performative Images draws upon the work of video artists and activists in France between the 1970s and the early 2020s and focuses on significant practices with technology. Video art and video... -
Mel Gibson's Passion and Philosophy: The Cross, the Questions, the Controverssy Jorge J. E. Gracia 9780812695717
SciFier: £19.99Few - including director Mel Gibson - were prepared for the firestorm of controversy that followed the release of the long-awaited Passion of the Christ. Reviled by many, but so popular with others... -
Julie Christie by Melanie Bell (Newcastle University, UK)
SciFier: £84.06Julie Christie's prickly relationship with stardom is legendary. This fascinating text provides a comprehensive account of Christie's career, from her emergence in the 1960s to present day. It moves... -
Camera Politica by Michael Ryan
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.82" a modern mythography, a study of contemporary Hollywood films based on the tools offered by feminism, psychoanalysis, Marxist cultural theory, and deconstruction." -Village Voice"Solidly... -
Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism Terri Simone Francis 9780253356536
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.39Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping. ... -
Maggie's Red Circus Bus by Sue Wickstead
SciFier: £7.24Children's picture story book. Everyone smiles and waves when the Playbus drives by-at least, almost everybody. Imagine a whole bus full of costumes and toys and circus fun. After a summer of... -
Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances Volume 2: International Murray Pomerance 9781474417037
RRP: £105.00SciFier: £98.24Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinemaWhat actors do on-screen is a fascination for audiences all over the world. Indeed, the cultural... -
The Costume Supervisor's Toolkit: Supervising Theatre Costume Production from First Meeting to Final Performance Rebecca Pride 9781032342757
RRP: £37.99SciFier: £35.06The Costume Supervisor's Toolkit (2nd edition) explores the multifaceted array of responsibilities of a Costume Supervisor within a theatrical, opera or dance production company.Delving deeper into... -
That Was Us by Fintan Walsh (Author, Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
SciFier: £21.82In the wake of Ireland's recent economic rise, fall, and associated social crises, theatre and performance have played vital roles in reflecting on the past, engaging the present, and imagining... -
Actors and the Art of Performance by Susanne Granzer
SciFier: £21.49Actors and the Art of Performance: Under Exposure combines the author's two main biographical paths: her professional commitment to the fields of both theatre and philosophy. The art of acting on... -
African Cinema by Manthia Diawara
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £14.78"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." -Robert Stam "Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments... -
The Films of Yvonne Rainer Yvonne Rainer 9780253205421
RRP: £17.99SciFier: £14.78"To read Rainer's screenplays is to rediscover, even reinvent, the films all over again, but more importantly to realize that images and mise-en-scene are as key to how Rainer's films work as is... -
John Ford Made Westerns by Gaylyn Studlar
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Fresh perspectives on some of the most influential films of John Ford.The Western is arguably the most popular and enduring form in cinematic history, and the acknowledged master of that genre was... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973537
SciFier: £92.99Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability Patricia White 9780253213457
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56"White writes with considerable flair, and her arguments are always interesting . . ." -Choice"Uncovering a massive trove of what she calls 'lesbian representability'-images of lesbian desire, love... -
Slapstick and Comic Performance by L. Peacock
SciFier: £92.99Slapstick comedy has a long and lively history from Greek Theatre to the present day. This book explores the ways in which comic pain and comic violence are performed within slapstick to make the... -
Performer by Lexie Winston
RRP: £15.00SciFier: £14.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645526257Author Lexie WinstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint Neighpalm PublishingPublisher... -
Extended Reality Performance: Scenographic Practice in Virtual and Augmented Reality Technologies Neill O'Dwyer (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) 9781350507432
SciFier: £96.63This pioneering collection illuminates the immersive world of Extended Reality Performance (XRP), where avant-garde digital performance-makers push the boundaries of creativity using cutting-edge... -
Performance of Absence in Theatre, Performance and Visual Art Sylwia Dobkowska 9781032044606
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This research project investigates the concepts of absence across the disciplines of theatre, visual art, and performance.Absence in the centre of an ideology frees the reader from the dominant... -
Dictionary of African Filmmakers by Roy Armes
RRP: £54.00SciFier: £44.53Compiled by eminent Africanist film scholar Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers is an inclusive, comprehensive treatment of films and filmmaking on the African continent. The dictionary... -
Trash: African Cinema from Below Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253007513
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Highlighting what is melodramatic, flashy, low, and gritty in the characters, images, and plots of African cinema, Kenneth W. Harrow uses trash as the unlikely metaphor to show how these films have... -
The Problem of Theatrical Autonomy: Analysing Theatre as a Social Practice Joshua Edelman 9781041188902
RRP: £45.99SciFier: £42.00As any devoted theatregoer will attest, watching a performance is a unique experience, as the social setting, rules, and standards of theatre often combine to create a feeling of liberation from the... -
Reading Bataille Now by Shannon Winnubst
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Reviled and fetishized, the work of Georges Bataille (1897-1962) has been most often reduced to his outrageous, erotic, and libertine fiction and essays. But increasingly, readers are finding his... -
Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives Oliver Double 9783030973506
SciFier: £92.99Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and... -
Mikado Memories by Richard Suart
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £14.06"The audience should feel as they come out of this show that they have over-eaten an enormous cream meringue". Jonathan Miller's ambition was completely successful, and his Mikado has been revived... -
Nicole Kidman NA NA 9781844574889
SciFier: £29.08Pam Cook's study of the star persona of Nicole Kidman traces Kidman's career trajectory through an examination of her (sometimes controversial) film choices and places her in the context of a... -
Speculative Imperialisms by Susana Loza
SciFier: £87.99Speculative Imperialisms: Monstrosity and Masquerade in Postracial Times explores the (settler) colonial ideologies underpinning the monstrous imaginings of contemporary popular culture in the... -
Ireland and Cinema by Barry Monahan
SciFier: £46.99The volume offers a broad range of academic approaches to contemporary and historical Irish filmmaking and representations of nationality, national identity, and theoretical questions around the... -
A Funny Life: The Sunday Times Bestseller Michael McIntyre 9781529063653
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £19.55The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography.Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006... -
Questions of Cinema by Stephen Heath
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46"It is essential reading for anyone concerned with the theoretical discussion of cinema, and ideology in general." -Semiotica" . . . Heath is an antidote to the Cinema 101 worldview." -Voice Literary... -
Hollywood Gamers by Robert Alan Brookey
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.05For years, major film studios have licensed products related to their most popular films; video game spin-offs have become an important part of these licensing practices. Where blockbuster films are... -
Thinking about Video Games: Interviews with the Experts David S. Heineman 9780253017109
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88The growth in popularity and complexity of video games has spurred new interest in how games are developed and in the research and technology behind them. David Heineman brings together some of the... -
Cinema in a Democratic South Africa by Lucia Saks
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £11.97Lucia Saks uses South African cinema as a lens through which to view cultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994. She examines how media transformed the meaning of race and nation... -
Focus on African Films by Francoise Pfaff
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Emphasizing post-independent films released since the 1950s and the burgeoning commercial film production of the last decade, Focus on African Films provides unique and pluralistic perspectives on... -
The Woman at the Keyhole: Feminism and Women's Cinema Judith Mayne 9780253206060
RRP: £13.99SciFier: £12.45"[The Woman at the Keyhole is one] of the most significant contributions to feminist film theory sin ce the 1970s." -SubStance" . . . this intelligent, eminently readable volume puts women's... -
Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany by Gail Finney
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12If the 21st century is the digital age, the 20th century can be characterized as the visual age-the era in which visual activity achieved unprecedented prominence. As this volume richly demonstrates,... -
A Philosophy of Fashion Through Film: On the Body, Style, and Identity Laura T. Di Summa (William Paterson University, USA) 9781350343757
SciFier: £31.99The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and... -
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A Funny Life Michael McIntyre 9781529063653 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £2.57The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography.Michael's first book ended with his big break at the 2006... -
Modern Acting: The Lost Chapter of American Film and Theatre Cynthia Baron 9781349680832
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £24.90Everyone has heard of Method acting . . . but what about Modern acting? This book makes the simple but radical proposal that we acknowledge the Modern acting principles that continue to guide actors'... -
Postcolonial African Cinema: From Political Engagement to Postmodernism Kenneth W. Harrow 9780253219145
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £17.90Kenneth W. Harrow offers a new critical approach to African cinema-one that requires that we revisit the beginnings of African filmmaking and the critical responses to which they gave rise, and that...