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  • Toward a General Theory of Actingby John Lutterbie

    Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00

    Using the cognitive sciences, Lutterbie employs dynamic systems theory as a foundation and integrates recent discoveries in neuroscience and cognitive psychology in his examination of acting theory. more...

  • Ethics and Politics of Translatingby Henri Meschonnic; Pier-Pascale Boulanger

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 135.00

    What if meaning were the last thing that mattered in language? In this essay, Henri Meschonnic explains what it means to translate the sense of language and how to do it. In a radical stand against a hermeneutical approach based on the dualistic view of the linguistic sign and against its separation into a meaningful signified and a meaningless signifier,... more...

  • The Stingby Matthew Specktor; Sean Howe

    Soft Skull Press 2011; US$ 12.95

    From Melville to Madoff, the Confidence Man is an essential American archetype. George Roy Hill?s 1973 film The Sting treats this theme with a characteristic dexterity. The movie was warmly received in its time, winning seven Academy Awards, but there were some who thought the movie was nothing more than a slight throwback. Pauline Kael, among... more...

  • The Rough Guide to Filmby Jessica Winter; Lloyd Hughes

    Rough Guides 2007; US$ 27.99

    The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director?s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting... more...

  • Elizabeth I in Film and Televisionby Bethany Latham

    McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00

    This analysis of how filmmakers have portrayed England's Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603), and the audience's perception of Elizabeth based upon these portrayals, examines key representations of the Tudor monarch in various motion pictures from the Silent era on and in television miniseries. Actresses who have portrayed Elizabeth include Bette... more...

  • Reading Visual Poetryby Willard Bohn

    Fairleigh Dickinson 2010; US$ 59.99

    Reading Visual Poetry examines works created in Spain, Latin America, France, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. Besides explicating individual works, it investigates the dynamics involved in reading (and viewing) visual poetry. more...

  • Theme Issueby Dr David Raitt

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005; US$ 199.00

    The articles in this e-book are each testament to the many important uses to which electronic books are now being put. For example, they are being used for the support of teaching and learning, for the dissemination of technical information and for knowledge sharing in the leisure and health industries. more...

  • Textual Practiceby Lindsay Deputy Editor: Smith; Alan Sinfield; Jean US Associate Editor: Howard

    Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 33.95

    Since its launch in 1987 TP has been Britain's principal international journal of radical literary studies, continually pressing theory into new engagments. more...

  • Textual Practiceby Terence Hawkes

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 33.95

    This book should be of interest to students and teachers of literature and literary theory. more...

  • Tending the Heart of Virtueby Vigen Guroian

    Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 22.99

    Examining a wide range of children's stories, the author argues that they capture the meaning of morality through vivid depictions of the struggle between good and evil, in which characters must make choices between right and wrong, or heroes and villains contest the fate of imaginary worlds. more...