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  • The Best Film You've Never Seenby Robert K. Elder

    Chicago Review Press 2013; US$ 13.99

    Revealing a festival of guilty pleasures, almost-masterpieces, and undeniable classics in need of revival, 35 directors champion their favorite overlooked or critically savaged gems in this guide. The list includes unsung noir films The Chase and Murder by Contract , famous flops Can?t Stop the Music and Joe Versus the Volcano , art films L?ange... more...

  • Monster Culture in the 21st Centuryby Marina Levina; Diem-My T. Bui

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99

    In the past decade, our rapidly changing world faced terrorism, global epidemics, economic and social strife, new communication technologies, immigration, and climate change to name a few. These fears and tensions reflect an evermore-interconnected global environment where increased mobility of people, technologies, and disease have produced great... more...

  • The Driftby John Hodgkins

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 24.95

    The Drift: Affect, Adaptation, and New Perspectives on Fidelity offers a new perspective on the complex interrelations between literature and cinema. It does so by articulating an 'affective turn' for adaptation studies, a field whose traditional focus has been the critical castigation of film adaptations of canonical plays or novels. Drawing... more...

  • Dreams in American Television Narrativesby Cynthia Burkhead

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2013; US$ 23.99

    Dreams in Television Narratives is the first comprehensive analysis of one of American television’s most frequently utilized tropes, the dream. From its beginning, television has been a storytelling medium. Whether delivered to a live audience or played out on a sound stage, narratives and those who write them have always been the crux of the... more...

  • The Soul of Film Theoryby Sarah Cooper

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 80.00

    In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory charts the legacy of this multi-faceted, contested term, from the classical to the contemporary era. more...

  • The Writer on Filmby Judith Buchanan

    Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 85.00

    Examining films about writers and acts of writing, The Writer on Film brilliantly refreshes some of the well-worn 'adaptation' debates by inviting film and literature to engage with each other trenchantly and anew ? through acts of explicit configuration not adaptation. more...

  • Certain Fragmentsby Tim Etchells; Peggy Phelan

    Routledge 1999; US$ 45.95

    An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence. more...

  • The Drama Classroomby Philip Taylor

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 48.95

    How can teachers incorporate drama into the curriculum? What drama activities are especially successful? How do teachers know when students are learning in, through and about drama? Teachers who are new to drama, or those wishing to refresh their knowledge and ideas, should find practical answers and guidance in this text. The book introduces the work... more...

  • Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebookby Richard Drain

    Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 45.95

    Twentieth Century Theatre: A Sourcebook is an inspired handbook of ideas and arguments on theatre. Richard Drain gathers together a uniquely wide-ranging selection of original writings on theatre by its most creative practitioners - directors, playwrights, performers and designers, from Jarry to Grotowski and Craig. These key texts span the twentieth... more...

  • A Sourcebook on African-American Performanceby Annemarie Bean

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 49.95

    A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable... more...