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Funny Woman by Barbara W. Grossman
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46Fanny Brice (1891-1951) was a truly popular entertainer, with a career that spanned four decades. She was a hit in almost every branch of American show business-burlesque and vaudeville, drama and... -
Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema C. O'Rawe 9781349479627
SciFier: £46.99Stars and Masculinities in Contemporary Italian Cinema is the first book to explore contemporary male stars and cinematic constructions of masculinity in Italy. Uniting star analysis with a detailed... -
Cinematography in the Weimar Republic: Lola Lola, Dirty Singles, and the Men Who Shot Them Paul Matthew St. Pierre 9781611479447
SciFier: £103.49In film history, director-cinematographer collaborations were on a labor spectrum, with the model of the contracted camera operator in the silent era and that of the cinematographer in the sound era... -
Another One Bites the Dust Jennifer Rardin 9780316020572
OrbitSciFier: £16.79Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316020572Author Jennifer RardinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint OrbitPublisher Little, Brown &... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: £46.99This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television... -
Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency Ashish Rajadhyaksha 9780253220486
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £10.54In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our... -
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Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid: From Bollywood to the Emergency Ashish Rajadhyaksha 9780253220486 [USED COPY]
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £3.29In Indian Cinema in the Time of Celluloid, Ashish Rajadhyaksha argues that any exploration of the social uses to which cinema is put in a place like India can only make sense if it transforms our... -
Performance and Identity in Irish Stand-Up Comedy: The Comic 'i' S. Colleary 9781137343895
SciFier: £46.99One of the cultural phenomena to occur in Ireland in the last two decades has been the highly successful growth of stand-up comedy as a popular entertainment genre. This book examines stand-up comedy... -
Indian Film Stars: New Critical Perspectives Michael Lawrence (University of Sussex, UK) 9781844578542
SciFier: £31.88Indian Film Stars offers original insights and important reappraisals of film stardom in India from the early talkie era of the 1930s to the contemporary period of global blockbusters. The collection... -
Screens and Veils by Florence Martin
RRP: £19.99SciFier: £16.35Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender... -
Performing Moving Images by Senta Siewert
SciFier: £111.37Performing Moving Images: Access, Archive and Affects presents institutions, individuals and networks who have ensured experimental films and Expanded Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s are not consigned... -
Silent Film Performers by Roy Liebman
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £19.91Each entry includes brief biographical and career data for the performer, with birthplace and year of birth and death. An overview of commercially published books and articles about or written by the... -
Performance of a Lifetime by Emma E Murray
SciFier: £4.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988482727Author Emma E MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Archive of the OddPublisher Archive... -
Performance Anomalies by Victor Robert Lee
RRP: £20.50SciFier: £18.73Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938409226Author Victor Robert LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 290Imprint Perimeter SixPublisher Perimeter... -
Medieval Fantasy as Performance by Michael A. Cramer
SciFier: £67.49In this book, Michael Cramer views the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), an organization that studies and recreates the middle ages, as a case study for a growing fascination with medieval... -
Performing Whiteness by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
SciFier: £25.362003 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitlePerforming Whiteness crosses the boundaries of film study to explore images of the white body in relation to recent theoretical perspectives on whiteness... -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781628461824
SciFier: £72.25In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because... -
The American Film Musical by Charles (Rick) F. Altman
RRP: £27.99SciFier: £23.86" . . . a model of genre criticism and probably the best overall analysis of the film musical to date." Journal of Popular Films and Television"The American Film Musical is a truly admirable book... -
The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue Vida T. Johnson 9780253208873
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60"Johnson and Petrie have produced an admirable book. Anyone who wants to make sense of Tarkovsky's films-a very difficult task in any case-must read it." -The Russian Review"This book is a model of... -
Media and Performance in the Musical by Raymond Knapp
RRP: £21.49SciFier: £20.49For the past several years, the American musical has continued to thrive by reflecting and shaping cultural values and social norms, and even commenting on politics, whether directly and on a... -
Outstanding Movie Performances by David Wilson
RRP: £12.71SciFier: £12.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880216208Author David WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher... -
Repeat Performance Rog Phillips 9781023472647
RRP: £10.95SciFier: £10.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781023472647Author Rog PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Anson Street PressPublisher Anson... -
Mastering the Art of Performance by Lars Jensen
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £17.99Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119855827Author Lars JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint IndependentPublisher... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372163
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
Beyond Dolby (Stereo) by Mark Kerins
RRP: £21.99SciFier: £18.60Since digital surround sound technology first appeared in cinemas 20 years ago, it has spread from theaters to homes and from movies to television, music, and video games. Yet even as 5.1 has become... -
The Night of the Hunter by Simon Callow
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £11.71This is an examination of "The Night of the Hunter", Charles Laughton's only outing as a film director. It looks at the symbolism of the piece, at Willa, her throat cut sitting in the Model-T Ford,... -
Beyond the Latin Lover by Jacqueline Reich
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56Marcello Mastroianni is considered by many to be the epitome of the Latin lover, the consummate symbol of Italian masculinity. In Beyond the Latin Lover, Jacqueline Reich unmasks the reality behind... -
Geraldine Chaplin by Steven Rybin
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.09The most distinguished actor among Charlie Chaplin's children, Geraldine Chaplin has created a striking performative presence across international cinema. In shifting cinematic contexts and through... -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781496807946
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because... -
Play, Philosophy and Performance by Malcolm MacLean
SciFier: £41.13Play, Philosophy and Performance is a cutting-edge collection of essays exploring the philosophy of play. It showcases the most innovative, interdisciplinary work in the rapidly developing field of... -
Performing Bodies by Catherine Ramsey-Portolano
SciFier: £86.49Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siecle literature and early cinema... -
Blockbuster Performances by Daniel Smith-Rowsey
RRP: £95.00SciFier: £54.31This book examines performances in the American film industry's highest-earning and most influential films. Countering decades of discourse and the conventional notion that special effects are the... -
Farewell Performance by H R Wakefield
SciFier: £15.49Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781447726098Author H R WakefieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu... -
Performing Piety by Karin van Nieuwkerk
RRP: £25.99SciFier: £21.01In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, "repented" from "sinful" activities, and... -
Emerging Affinities by Mateusz Borowski
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £25.62This volume is a response to the growing need for new methodological approaches to the rapidly changing landscape of new forms of performative practices. The authors address a host of contemporary... -
The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen Brooke M. Haney 9781032531465
SciFier: £33.11The Intimacy Coordinator's Guidebook: Specialties for Stage and Screen explores the role of the intimacy choreographer with an in-depth look at specializations that exist within the profession.With... -
The Dark Side of Stand-Up Comedy Patrice A. Oppliger 9783030372132
RRP: £99.99SciFier: £92.99This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who... -
The Sounds of Early Cinema Richard Abel 9780253214799
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.12The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent,... -
Latin American Documentary Film in the New Millennium Maria Guadalupe Arenillas 9781137495228
SciFier: £112.99Nearly two decades into the new millennium, Latin American documentary film is experiencing renewed vibrancy and visibility on the global stage. While elements of the combative, politicized cinema of... -
Global Nollywood by Matthias Krings
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Global Nollywood considers this first truly African cinema beyond its Nigerian origins. In 15 lively essays, this volume traces the engagement of the Nigerian video film industry with the African...