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Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy Anne Libera 9780810149366
RRP: £30.00SciFier: £19.99A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable-and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that "either you are funny, or you... -
Charlie Chaplin, Director Donna Kornhaber 9780810129528
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £22.01Charlie Chaplin was one of the cinema's consummate comic performers, yet he has long been criticised as a lacklustre film director. In this groundbreaking work-the first to analyse Chaplin's... -
Double Lives, Second Chances by Annette Insdorf
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.35Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941 - 1996) is widely recognised as one of the greatest filmmakers of the latter half of the twentieth century. Beginning as a documentarian who took on controversial subjects... -
Marayrasu: Stories Amy Therese Olen 9780810149434
SciFier: £19.00The first English-language collection of short stories by award-winning Peruvian author Edgardo Rivera MartInez The stories in Marayrasu stage fantastical, mysterious encounters that belie the... -
Half a Look of Cain by William Goyen
RRP: £21.95SciFier: £14.78Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810150881Author William GoyenFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Northwestern University... -
Hippodrome by Colter
RRP: £19.95SciFier: £14.54Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810150362Author ColterFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Northwestern University PressPublisher... -
An Aesthetics of Injury by Ian Fleishman
SciFier: £37.18An Aesthetics of Injury exposes wounding as a foundational principle of modernism in literature and film. Theorizing the genre of the narrative wound-texts that aim not only to depict but also to... -
Second City Almanac Improvisation by Anne Libera
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £20.16It all began in a converted Chinese laundry on Chicago's north side on a cold December night in 1959. No one could have known that by the next century, The Second City would have established itself... -
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales Marina Balina 9780810120327
RRP: £27.95SciFier: £18.78We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's... -
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and Soviet Fairy Tales Marina Balina 9780810120310
SciFier: £110.92We were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Soviet culture as far more than a category of children's... -
Entranced Earth Volume 45: Art, Extractivism, and the End of Landscape Jens Andermann 9780810145924
RRP: £37.95SciFier: £25.68A sweeping analysis of the lasting effects of neocolonial extractivism in Latin American aesthetic modernity from 1920 to the present Looking to the extractive frontier as a focal point of Latin... -
So What, or How to Make Films with Words Alexander Garcia Duttmann 9780810145351
RRP: £31.95SciFier: £22.56A series of philosophical meditations on the nature of aesthetics across a wide array of filmmaking styles Images, whether filmic or not, cannot be replaced by words. Yet words can make images. This... -
Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things John Bruns 9780810139954
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £24.12Hitchcock's People, Places, and Things argues that Alfred Hitchcock was as much a filmmaker of things and places as he was of people. Drawing on the thought of Bruno Latour, John Bruns traces the... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner 9780810137387
RRP: £99.00SciFier: £65.87Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks Rick Warner 9780810137370
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £24.12Godard and the Essay Film offers a history and analysis of the essay film, one of the most significant forms of intellectual filmmaking since the end of World War II. Warner incisively reconsiders... -
Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage Robert S. Bader 9780810134164
RRP: £49.95SciFier: £35.05Before film made them international comedy legends, the MarxBrothers developed their comic skills on stage for twenty-fiveyears. In Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers onStage, Robert S... -
Four of the Three Musketeers: The Marx Brothers on Stage Robert S. Bader 9780810145757
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £23.86An updated paperback version of the book heralded as "a new benchmark in Marx scholarship" by the Los Angeles Times Before film made them international comedy legends, the Marx Brothers developed... -
The Curators by Maggie Nye
RRP: £23.95SciFier: £15.56Violence haunts 1915 Atlanta and so does the golem a group of girls creates A dark, lyrical blend of historical fiction and magical realism, The Curators examines a critically underexplored event in... -
Precarious Intimacies: The Politics of Touch in Contemporary Western European Cinema Maria Stehle 9780810142114
RRP: £34.95SciFier: £24.12Drawing on and responding to the writings of theorists such as Judith Butler, Sarah Ahmed, Lauren Berlant, and Lisa Lowe, this book proposes the notion of "precarious intimacies" to navigate a... -
The Crime Films of Anthony Mann Max Alvarez 9781617039249
SciFier: £91.49Anthony Mann (1906-1967) is renowned for his outstanding 1950s westerns starring James Stewart (Winchester '73, The Naked Spur, The Man from Laramie). But there is more to Mann's cinematic universe... -
Intensities and Lines of Flight by Antonio Calcagno, King's University College
SciFier: £51.99The writings of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari offer the most enduring and controversial contributions to the theory and practice of art in post-war Continental thought. However, these writings... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119643
SciFier: £23.29The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
The Contemporary Russian Cinema Reader: 2005-2016 Rimgaila Salys 9781618119636
RRP: £91.99SciFier: £78.22The first fifteen years of the twenty-first century have been an exciting transitional period in Russian cinema, as the industry recovered from the crises of the late 1990s and again stepped onto the... -
Souvenirs by Karen An-hwei Lee
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.28A collection of visions shared across cyberspace, Souvenirs, a collaboration between authors Andrew Colarusso and Karen An-hwei Lee, celebrates fragments from the literary afterlife. In Souvenirs, a... -
My Brother the Messiah by Martin Vopenka
RRP: £12.99SciFier: £9.58It's 2103 and Earth is baking. Scientists attempt to cool down the planet. With the coming of rain, a messiah is born.Eli is a technophobe haunted by premonitions of what will come. His strange... -
Future Horizons by Dean Irvine
RRP: £26.50SciFier: £25.39Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by...