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Rammellzee: Racing for Thunder Wolf 9780847899371
RRP: £50.00SciFier: £39.89Rammellzee was an enigmatic yet key figure in the nexus of creative forces that defined New York City s heady downtown scene in the late 1970s and 1980s. In the first major monograph on the... -
Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 2 Joseph Fink 9780356508627
OrbitRRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61'Hypnotic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Incredible' BUZZFEED 'Brilliant' BOING BOING Downloaded over 100 million times in podcast form, Welcome to Night Vale is now yours to take home in print for the first time... -
Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen by John W. Frick
SciFier: £46.99No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852... -
Celebrity Bromances: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas Celia Lam 9780367554002
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £38.53This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity 'bromances,' interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona,... -
W.C. Fields from the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway Stage to the Screen by Arthur Frank Wertheim
SciFier: £102.99This book reveals how Fields became a character comedian while performing in Broadway's most illustrious revue, the Ziegfeld Follies.As the first biography to use the recently opened Fields Papers at... -
Great Glowing Coils of the Universe: Welcome to Night Vale Episodes, Volume 2 Joseph Fink 9780356508627 [USED COPY]
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £8.85'Hypnotic' NEW YORK TIMES 'Incredible' BUZZFEED 'Brilliant' BOING BOING Downloaded over 100 million times in podcast form, Welcome to Night Vale is now yours to take home in print for the first time... -
Fabrications: Dance, Costume, and Material Culture Rachel Fensham (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne) 9780197699607
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £24.81How does the manufacture, design, and commodification of costume inform choreography and determine what dancers have worn on stage? How do certain types of costume influence the experience of dance... -
Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies by Arthur Frank Wertheim
RRP: £20.95SciFier: £17.82Will Rogers and Florenz Ziegfeld are two magic names in show business. Today Rogers is considered America's most beloved humorist, while Ziegfeld is recognized as the most flamboyant impresario in... -
Max Magic 3 by Stephen Mulhern
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10Max is back for a brand-new adventure - from the UNBELIEVABLE Stephen Mulhern and Tom Easton, with illustrations by Begona Fernandez Corbalan. Praise for MAX MAGIC: What kids are saying:'The best... -
Akane-banashi, Vol. 6 by Yuki Suenaga
Viz MediaRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father!Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam-the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in... -
De Niro: A Biography John Baxter 9780006532309 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £2.20The life of Hollywood's number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg,... -
Babylon & Sumer Myths & Legends: Tales of Gods, Heroes & Monsters Fiona Collins 9781835622605
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £7.97Tales from a crucible of civilization - the pocket between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers where language, astronomy, religion and mythology grew from some of the earliest cultures known to... -
Fabrications: Dance, Costume, and Material Culture Rachel Fensham (Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, Professor of Dance and Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne) 9780197699591
SciFier: £96.80How does the manufacture, design, and commodification of costume inform choreography and determine what dancers have worn on stage? How do certain types of costume influence the experience of dance... -
Gothic Hauntology by Joakim Wrethed
SciFier: £102.99This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a... -
Too Much by Robert Hewison
SciFier: £111.37First published in 1986, Too Much records the tumultuous period between 1960 and 1975 when, more than at any other time in history, the arts were a battleground for the conflicting forces of social... -
The Sensible Stage by Bridget Crone (Goldsmiths, University of London)
RRP: £88.95SciFier: £88.12The Sensible Stage is a collection of essays exploring the use of live performance and moving image in contemporary art practice. It engages with a global phenomenon in which elements from theatre... -
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture Alan Bilton 9781349437474
SciFier: £46.99This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags... -
Joanne Woodward by Peter Shelley
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.21In her 60-year career, Joanne Woodward has been a film, television and stage actress, television producer and director, stage director, and film director. She won the Best Actress Academy Award... -
The What the Ladybird Heard Play Julia Donaldson 9781509824779
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10What the Ladybird Heard, bestselling picture book from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, has been adapted by author Julia Donaldson into a fun and accessible play script that children will love... -
The Haunting of Thornham Staithe by James Warden
SciFier: £12.49A series of hauntings in a Norfolk town, apparently unrelated, attract little attention until the first death occurs. Even then, it is difficult to link the death, which has not been witnessed by any... -
Akane-banashi, Vol. 14: Volume 14 Yuki Suenaga 9781974758791
Viz MediaRRP: £8.99SciFier: £6.72Akane takes on the world of rakugo to avenge her father!Shinta Arakawa wants nothing more than to pass his shin'uchi exam-the test that would make him a top-rank headliner and master storyteller in... -
The Circus of the Crescent Moon Jayne Siroshton 9781068454349
SciFier: £16.49The Rookscroft series is illustrated cozy fantasy - whimsical tales of talking animals, unexpected friendships, and the joy of discovery, told with warmth and charm.That winter, a tempest blew in... -
Staging Personhood by Guojun Wang
RRP: £55.00SciFier: £45.38After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China's new rulers tolerated the use of traditional Chinese attire in... -
Magic on the Early English Stage Philip Butterworth (University of Leeds) 9780521153065
RRP: £43.00SciFier: £40.89Magic on the Early English Stage investigates the performance of magical tricks, illusions, effects and their staged appearance in the medieval and early English theatre. Performers who created such... -
The Stanley Holloway Monologues Michael Marshall 9780241103067
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22Here, for the first time, is complete collection of actor and entertainer Stanley Holloway's incomparable comic monologues, which he performed between 1929 and 1941. All the much-loved characters... -
Sit Sit: Phase 2 Set 1 (Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised) Sarah Rice 9780008503284
SciFier: £4.75Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to... -
The Comedy of Dave Chappelle by K.A. Wisniewski
RRP: £14.99SciFier: £13.79Perhaps best known for his highly acclaimed, short-lived Comedy Central program ""Chappelle's Show"", Dave Chappelle is widely regarded as one of today's most culturally significant comedians... -
Making Tutus Amanda Hall 9780719843143
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £15.83Making Tutus is a practical guide to making these traditional costumes for classical ballet dancers. As with the tutu itself, the book approaches the task in three parts - the tutu plate, the bodice... -
Straight Girls and Queer Guys: The Hetero Media Gaze in Film and Television Christopher Pullen 9780748694846
SciFier: £93.01Exploring the archetypal representation of the straight girl with the queer guy in film and television culture from 1948 to the present day, Straight Girls and Queer Guys considers the process of the... -
Who by Marcus Hearn
Titan BooksRRP: £14.99SciFier: £12.99This title contains over 160 iconic, rare, and previously unpublished images of The Who. Tracing their progress from sharp-suited mods to psychedelic stars and pioneers of the rock opera through... -
The Adaptation of History: Essays on Ways of Telling the Past Laurence Raw 9780786472543
SciFier: £30.19This collection of essays asks the question "What is history?" and considers how history is shaped in different socioeconomic contexts. The writers take a transdisciplinary approach, in the belief... -
The Job of the Service Committee: Hard Edition Kiyoshiro Inoue 9781634425827
Denpa BooksSciFier: £42.56Higher education can be difficult with its day to day tests, club activities and constant studying. Given the perpetual barrage of mind strengthening, it is easy to forget that one needs to take care... -
Twin Lotuses Zhang Xiaoyu 9781962413510
RRP: £26.99SciFier: £19.21Love is never lost . . . Fan is a young Chinese engineer who lost his wife in a Japanese bombing raid in 1937. Mingfeng was a popular performer at the local opera, and he is devastated by the loss... -
Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image Douglas Rosenberg (Associate Professor of Art, Associate Professor of Art, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA) 9780199772629
RRP: £43.49SciFier: £33.49The relationship between the practice of dance and the technologies of representation has excited artists since the advent of film. Dancers, choreographers, and directors are increasingly drawn to... -
Dreams and Ideas (Volume 3): The Artistry of Costume Designer Winn Morton Myra Walker 9781574419993
RRP: £45.00SciFier: £29.79Dreams and Ideas celebrates the legacy of American theatrical designer John Winniford "Winn" Morton (1928-2022), a Texan who made his way to New York to begin a stellar career that lasted from when... -
Scene Shift: U.S. Set Designers in Conversation Maureen Weiss 9780367638764
SciFier: £34.03* This book curates new thinking through interviews with designers who are artists, producers, professors, partners, parents, and collaborators. This book is a place to observe how one career can... -
Henry Fonda by Kevin Sweeney
SciFier: £57.99The life and career of Henry Fonda, one of Hollywood's greatest stars, are detailed in this bio-bibliography that places equal emphasis on the actor's professional and private lives.The reference... -
The Hunger: Film Writing 2012-2024 Melissa Anderson 9798986446387
RRP: £23.00SciFier: £18.61The Hunger assembles the best of Melissa Anderson's film writing from, among other outlets, Bookforum, Artforum, the Village Voice, and 4Columns, where she has been the film editor and lead film... -
The Time of Yesterdays Return Steve Nallon 9781910022634
RRP: £8.99SciFier: £8.09Book Three of The Swidgers SeriesDiscover the Thrilling Conclusion of the Swidgers trilogy.Dive into the breathtaking finale of the Swidgers series by Steve Nallon, where William Arthur's journey... -
The Chieftain by John Norman
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £18.49A peasant is sent to the arena, fodder for the carnage-but before the horrified gaze of noble ladies, the warrior named Dog slaughters headsmen, hunters, and beasts to win freedom as a...