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Read My Lips
Weinstein Publishing 2013; US$ 26.00Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Sally Kellerman pulls back the curtain on the legendary Hollywood decades of the 60s and 70s, with no paparazzi, no traffic, and no 24-hour entertainment news. more...
Terror and the Cinematic Sublime
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 40.00This study considers film in the aftermath of September 11. Eleven essayists address Hollywood movies, indie film, and post-cinematic media, including theatrical films by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Darren Aronofsky, and Lars von Trier, and post-cinematic works by Wafaa Bilal, Douglas Gordon, and Peter Tscherkassky, among others. All of these... more...
The Stage Manager's Toolkit
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 24.95As a Stage Manager, you are responsible for organizing rehearsals, running performances, and keeping everyone and everything on track and in sync. To do the job well, you need to be a communication wizard?able to collect a wide range of details and share them as effectively as possible. The Stage Manger?s Toolkit is more than another overview book... more...
Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook
Routledge 2005; US$ 37.95A practical guide to creative writing. Covers life writing, novels, short stories, poetry, screenwriting. Discusses literary theory, example texts, style, sentence structure, punctuation, vocabulary, courses, resources, getting published. more...
A Writer's Coach
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2006; US$ 14.95Mystified over misplaced modifiers? In a trance from intransitive verbs? Paralyzed from using the passive voice? To aid writers, from beginners to professionals, legendary writing coach Jack Hart presents a comprehensive, practical, step-by-step approach to the writing process. He shares his techniques for composing and sustaining powerful writing... more...
Authorship in Context
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 100.00Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture. more...
Thanks, But This Isn't for Us
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 16.95A fun, practical guide that reveals the essentials of good fiction and memoir writing by exposing the most common mistakes literary writers make. All great works of fiction and memoir are unique?but most bad novels, stories, and memoirs have a lot in common. From clunky dialogue to poorly sketchedout characters, sagging pacing to exaggerated prose,... more...
The Psychology of Creative Writing
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 38.00The Psychology of Creative Writing takes a scholarly, psychological look at multiple aspects of creative writing. more...
Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 30.95Crafting Short Screenplays that Connect introduces the essential element of 'human connection' - the ability to 'touch' the reader or observer - to the screenwriting and story creation process for short films. Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches the craft of short screenplay writing by guiding you through carefully focused writing exercises of increasing... more...
Poetry Translating as Expert Action
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00Poetry is a highly valued form of human expression, and poems are challenging texts to translate. For both reasons, people willingly work long and hard to translate them, for little pay but potentially high personal satisfaction. This book shows how experienced poetry translators translate poems and bring them to readers, and how they not only shape... more...









