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Practical Dreamers
Coach House Books 2004; US$ 20.95'The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.' ? Man Ray What if there were movies made the same way as suits, custom fitted, each one tailored for one person? Not broadcast, but narrowcast? Not theatres around the world showing the same globalized pictures, but instead a local circumstance, a movie so particular,... more...
The House of Redgrave
Aurum Press 2011; US$ 16.32From the landmark films of Tony Richardson to the untimely death of Natasha Richardson ? this is the saga of one of the greatest dynasties in British film and theatre. In 1928, at the end of a production of Hamlet at the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier strode to the front of the stage to hush the audience and announced, pointing at his co-star Michael... more...
2012 Guide to Literary Agents
F+W Media 2011; US$ 29.99New and reinvented for 2012! Guide to Literary Agents is a writer?s best resource for finding a literary agent who can represent their work to publishing houses, big and small. The days when a writer could deal directly with a large publisher are over. Literary agents represent writers and shepherd manuscripts to the right editor; and a good representative... more...
Top Secret
DK Publishing 2011; US$ 19.99Check over your shoulder before you peek inside the pages of this book-it shares the secrets of some of the sneakiest spies around. The book covers tools, techniques, gadgets, gizmos, history, and famous agents, alongside types of spying and the roles involved. It explores physical devices used by spies from dead drops (with hidden documents inside)... more...
On Theatre
Hesperus Press 2011; US$ 9.99Dickens? burning passion for theater has often been overlooked by fans of his novels. A keen playwright and actor, he staged performances for which he oversaw every detail, and personally adapted many of his own fictional works. As a consummate self-publicist, he also undertook numerous stage tours and public readings of his own work. For Dickens,... more...
The Films of Alain Robbe-Grillet
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1981; US$ 158.00Feeling Theatre
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Why is it that in going to see plays we are also touched or moved by them, and is there more than metaphor involved in such claims? Considering these and other questions, this book examines a range of contemporary performance works in which performers and their audiences occupy a shared realm of feelings, in which the play is not always the thing. more...
Basic Elements of Narrative
Wiley 2011; US$ 35.95Basic Elements of Narrative outlines a way of thinking about what narrative is and how to identify its basic elements across various media, introducing key concepts developed by previous theorists and contributing original ideas to the growing body of scholarship on stories. Includes an overview of recent developments in narrative scholarship Provides... more...
"Der Letzte der Ungerechten"
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 22.64Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhalt Vorwort 7 Ronny Loewy Die Shoah-Outtakes 11 Benjamin Murmelstein Das Ende von Theresienstadt Stellungnahme eines Beteiligten 15 "Wenn Sie das demokratisch nennen, dann bin ich gerne ein Faschist" Ein Auszug aus dem Interview von Claude Lanzmann mit Benjamin Murmelstein27 Doron Rabinovici Benjamin Murmelstein, "der Letzte... more...
Taking Place
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 83.00Taking Place argues that the relation between geographical location and the moving image is fundamental and that place grounds our experience of film and media. Its original essays analyze film, television, video, and installation art from diverse national and transnational contexts to rethink both the study of moving images and the theorization of... more...









