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  • Official Prisoner Companionby Matthew White; Jaffer Ali

    Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99

    It is called, with deceptive simplicity, The Village. It is the world of tomorrow, or today. A man known only as Number 6 enters its storybook-like confines. He will learn, over and over again, that inside it there is no freedom, and from it there is no escape. He is without defenses, except for one invisible weapon: his uncrushable spirit. more...

  • New Media, Old Newsby Natalie Fenton

    SAGE Publications 2009; US$ 55.00

    A piercing examination of why understanding news journalism matters now more than ever in this age of rapidly changing communication technologies. more...

  • Gods and Monstersby Noah Tsika

    Arsenal Pulp Press 2009; US$ 14.95

    A Queer Film Classic: the 1998 film based on the troubled life of director James Whale. more...

  • Television Styleby Jeremy G. Butler

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 38.95

    Style matters. Television relies on style?setting, lighting, videography, editing, and so on?to set moods, hail viewers, construct meanings, build narratives, sell products, and shape information. Yet, to date, style has been the most understudied aspect of the medium. In this book, Jeremy G. Butler examines the meanings behind television?s stylstic... more...

  • Molly Ivinsby Bill Minutaglio; W. Michael Smith

    PublicAffairs 2009; US$ 15.95

    A revelatory biography of the irreverent political commentator and bestselling author whose public persona masked a complicated and compelling personal history more...

  • Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literatureby Christopher Winks

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00

    This incisive comparative study analyzes Caribbean literary representations of magic and invisible cities in new and exciting ways. In a comprehensive approach, Winks' study ranges from literary portraits of El Dorado, to the remembered holy cities in African-based New World religions, to the secret Havanas of modern Cuban literature. Grounded in... more...

  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theoryby David HERMAN; Manfred JAHN; Marie-Laure RYAN

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 63.95

    The past several decades have seen an explosion of interest in narrative, with this multifaceted object of inquiry becoming a central concern in a wide range of disciplinary fields and research contexts. As accounts of what happened to particular people in particular circumstances and with specific consequences, stories have come to be viewed as a... more...

  • A Practical Guide to Stage Lightingby Steven Louis Shelley

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 51.95

    The new edition of the bestselling favorite that you have been waiting for! This is the same nuts-and-bolds look at the construction and implementation of theatrical lighting design that you need, but with a unique focus on design with a combination of theory and application that can't be found anywhere else. A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting has... more...

  • Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Researchby Shannon Rose Riley; Lynette Hunter

    Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00

    Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field. more...

  • Disputatio 1200?1800by Marion Gindhart; Ursula Kundert

    De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00

    A disputation is an academic debate with fixed rules. Both in oral and written form it was a characteristic feature of university life of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. As genre and interaction model, it had an impact even outside the universities. The articles in this book illuminate different aspects of the disputation in the period between... more...