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20 Master Plots
F+W Media 2011; US$ 16.99Give your story a solid foundation?a plot that engages readers from start to finish! The best stories linger in the hearts and minds of readers for decades. These tales gain their power through plots that connect with the audience on both an emotional and intellectual level. Inside Ronald B. Tobias details these 20 time-tested plots. Each is discussed... more...
The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues
Penguin Group US 1988; US$ 16.00A challenging, wide-ranging collection of monologues from history?s greatest dramatic works From the stately and poetic Greek tragedies to the lively, bawdy Restoration comedies, the classical repertoire is a treasure trove of often-overlooked materials for male and female, young and old. The solo pieces collected here vary widely in mood, style,... more...
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 85.00Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde. more...
Description in Literature and Other Media
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 98.00In contrast to narrative, description is a much less researched phenomenon, and where it so far has found attention at all, scholars have almost always discussed it with fiction in mind. The all but exclusive concentration on literature has hitherto obscured the fact that description transcends literature and indeed the verbal media in general and... more...
Festivalising
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 93.80Throughout the world festivals are growing in numbers, in size, in significance and serve as spaces where aesthetic encounters, religious and political celebrations, economic investments and public entertainment can take place. In this sense, festivals are theatrical events.This volume contains discussions of 14 diverse festival events... more...
The First Five Pages
Touchstone 2010; US$ 14.99IF YOU'RE TIRED OF REJECTION, THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. Whether you are a novice writer or a veteran who has already had your work published, rejection is often a frustrating reality. Literary agents and editors receive and reject hundreds of manuscripts each month. While it's the job of these publishing professionals to be discriminating, it's... more...
From Yesterday to TODAY
Running Press 2011; US$ 30.00?When Dave Garroway welcomed viewers to Today on that day in 1952, he ushered in a new era in broadcasting. . . . It was a place where viewers could turn to each morning to satisfy their appetite for all things news and information. It was a destination for the curious to learn more about what had happened overnight and how the day ahead might shape... more...
Herzschmerz im deutschen Fernsehprogramm: Analyse der Telenovela "Alisa - Folge deinem Herzen" (ZDF)
Diplomica Verlag 2012; US$ 22.03Hauptbeschreibung Seit 2004 haben deutsche Telenovelas ihren Weg ins Fernsehen gefunden - mit Erfolg! Seither breiten sie sich in allen Sendern aus: Bianca, Lisa, Sophie, Julia, Lena, Tessa, Alisa, Hanna und all die anderen jungen Frauen, die die weiblichen Hauptcharaktere darstellen, stehen mit ihrem Leben und ihrer Liebe im Mittelpunkt und ziehen... more...
How Ficta Follow Fiction
Springer 2006; US$ 149.99Presents a theory of fictional entities which is syncretistic insofar as it integrates the work of previous authors. This work puts forward a metaphysical conception of the nature of these entities, according to which a fictional entity is a compound entity built up from both a make-believe theoretical element and a set theoretical element. more...
La Mise en Scene Contemporaine
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 45.95?We have good reason to be wary of mise en scène, but that is all the more reason to question this wariness ... it seems that images from a performance come back to haunt us, as if to prolong and transform our experience as spectators, as if to force us to rethink the event, to return to our pleasure or our terror.? ? Patrice Pavis, from the... more...









