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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... -
Mockumentary Comedy: Performing Authenticity Richard Wallace 9783030085544
SciFier: £48.15This 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... -
Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place Julia Hallam 9780253011053
RRP: £24.99SciFier: £20.23Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial... -
Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen Robert A. Rushing 9780253022509
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £17.90Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and... -
African American Actresses by Charlene B. Regester
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.16Nine actresses, from Madame Sul-Te-Wan in Birth of a Nation (1915) to Ethel Waters in Member of the Wedding (1952), are profiled in African American Actresses. Charlene Regester poses questions about... -
Locating the Moving Image: New Approaches to Film and Place Julia Hallam 9780253010971
RRP: £70.00SciFier: £55.88Leading scholars in the interdisciplinary field of geo-spatial visual studies examine the social experience of cinema and the different ways in which film production developed as a commercial... -
Descended from Hercules: Biopolitics and the Muscled Male Body on Screen Robert A. Rushing 9780253022462
RRP: £62.00SciFier: £49.55Muscles, six-pack abs, skin, and sweat fill the screen in the tawdry and tantalizing peplum films associated with epic Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. Using techniques like slow motion and... -
Re-viewing Fascism by Jacqueline Reich
RRP: £18.99SciFier: £15.56When Benito Mussolini proclaimed that "Cinema is the strongest weapon," he was telling only half the story. In reality, very few feature films during the Fascist period can be labeled as propaganda... -
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... -
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... -
Empire of Ecstasy by Karl Toepfer
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £55.19"Empire of Ecstasy" offers a novel interpretation of the explosion of German body culture between the two wars - nudism and nude dancing, gymnastics and dance training, dance photography and... -
Emerging Affinities by Mateusz Borowski
RRP: £38.99SciFier: £28.99This 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: £35.06The 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... -
Can You Become a Pop Star? by Allison Lassieur
RRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.64Do you dream of belting out a chart-topping single on stage in front of thousands of people? Even with talent and determination, it's a long, winding journey to the top. Chart your path to stardom,... -
The Remembered Film by Victor Burgin
SciFier: £23.71Most books about cinema, whether popular or academic, concentrate on what we might call the inside' of the film: from star performances to narrative structures. The relatively few books about the... -
Geraldine Chaplin by Steven Rybin
RRP: £20.99SciFier: £19.99The 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... -
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... -
Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre by Ian Farnell
RRP: £90.00SciFier: £87.99Analysing an expanding body of theatre and performance works, Science Fiction and Contemporary British Theatre examines how the themes and images of science fiction are enabling practitioners to... -
Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World Beth A. Haller (Towson University, Maryland, USA) 9781032112589
RRP: £47.99SciFier: £43.73This book tells the stories of disabled people who have been influential in creating modern mass media. Through the voices of key disabled media makers and collaborators, the author highlights the... -
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 -
Play, Philosophy and Performance by Malcolm MacLean
SciFier: £42.86Play, 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: £53.70This 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 -
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... -
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 -
Media and Performance in the Musical by Raymond Knapp
SciFier: £28.99For 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...