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Hound of the Baskervilles Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2001; US$ 24.95Each 48-page Study Guide includes 35 reproducible exercises, teaching suggestions, background notes, chapter summaries, and answer keys. more...
Last of the Mohicans Study Guide
Saddleback Publishing 2001; US$ 24.95Each 48-page Study Guide includes 35 reproducible exercises, teaching suggestions, background notes, chapter summaries, and answer keys. more...
The Man Who Heard Voices
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 15.00Now in paperback, a behind-the-scenes look at the groundbreaking filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan In his relatively young career, M. Night Shyamalan has achieved phenomenal commercial and critical success. His films The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs , and The Village have grossed over $1.5 billion and reinvented the thriller genre. Because Shyamalan... more...
Spartacus
Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2007; US$ 38.95This is the first book systematically to analyze Kirk Douglas’ and Stanley Kubrick’s depiction of the slave revolt led by Spartacus from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of ancient sources, the ancient historical contexts, the political significance of the film, the history of its... more...
What Have They Built You to Do?
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 60.00In What Have They Built You to Do??a key line of dialogue from the original film?Matthew Frye Jacobson and Gaspar González undertake an ambitious reexamination of The Manchurian Candidate. Through their multifaceted analysis of the film in all its incarnations, Jacobson and González raise provocative questions about power and anxiety in American politics... more...
On Film
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 32.95In this significantly expanded new edition of his acclaimed exploration of the four Alien movies, Stephen Mulhall adds several new chapters on Steven Spielberg?s Mission: Impossible trilogy and Minority Report . The first part of the book discusses the four Alien movies. Mulhall argues that the sexual significance of the aliens themselves,... more...
Ideas for the Animated Short with DVD
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 29.95Build your skills in the development of story ideas that will command an audience for your 2-5 minute animated short. Packed with illustrated examples of idea generation, character and story development, acting, dialogue and storyboarding practice this is your conceptual toolkit proven to meet the challenges of this unique art form. The companion... more...
Spartacus
Wiley 2008; US$ 115.95This is the first book systematically to analyze Kirk Douglas’ and Stanley Kubrick’s depiction of the slave revolt led by Spartacus from different historical, political, and cinematic perspectives. Examines the film’s use of ancient sources, the ancient historical contexts, the political significance of the film, the history of its... more...
The Thin Red Line
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 29.95The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during World War Two. It is a powerful, enigmatic and complex film that raises important philosophical questions, ranging from the existential and phenomenological... more...
Lust, Caution
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 9.00Now a major motion picture from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee ( Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Brokeback Mountain ): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II. In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance,... more...









