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The Man Time Forgot
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 13.99Friends, collaborators, and childhood rivals, Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce were not yet twenty-five when they started Time , the first newsmagazine, at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. By age thirty, they were both millionaires, having laid the foundation for a media empire. But their partnership was explosive and their competition ferocious,... more...
Carme
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 77.00Since Prosper Mérimée and Georges Bizet (with his librettists Meilhac and Halévy) brought the figure of the Spanish Carmen to prominence in the nineteenth century an astonishing eighty or so film versions of the story have been made. This collection of essays gathers together a unique body of scholarly critique focused on that Carmen... more...
I Am What I Am
Michael O'Mara 2010; US$ 9.99Intimately exploring aspects of John?s current life, this personal memoir is full of exclusive anecdotes from recent and ongoing projects, all told with John?s trademark charm and humor. Full of juicy tidbits from behind the scenes of Doctor Who and Torchwood , this memoir also offers heartwarming family anecdotes and personal revelations, including... more...
Reframing Theology and Film (Cultural Exegesis)
Baker Publishing Group 2007; US$ 28.00Identifies and explicates the areas that are currently being overlooked or undervalued in the current discussions of theology and film. more...
Will Smith: Actor
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00A millionaire before the age of 20, the star of the long-running popular sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and a movie star, Will Smith boasts an impressive résumé?yet his career is far from over. Growing up in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Will Smith started out a rapper, but soon demonstrated considerable talent and charisma as an actor. Since... more...
Philosophers and Thespians
Stanford University Press 2009; US$ 22.95This book investigates the discursive practices of philosophy and theater/performance on the basis of actual encounters between representatives of these two fields. more...
The Poetics of Personification
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 27.00An appraisal of literary personification in the light of developments in poststructuralist thought. more...
Telling Children's Stories
University of Nebraska Press 2011; US$ 35.00The most accessible approach yet to childrens literature and narrative theory, Telling Childrens Stories is a comprehensive collection of never-before-published essays by an international slate of scholars that offers a broad yet in-depth assessment of narrative strategies unique to childrens literature. more...
Ingmar Bergman's Persona
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 28.00The essays collected in this volume use a variety of methodologies to explore Bergman's Persona. more...
The Essay Film
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 20.99Why have certain kinds of documentary and non-narrative films emerged as the most interesting, exciting, and provocative movies made in the last twenty years? Ranging from the films of Ross McElwee (Bright Leaves) and Agnes Varda (The Gleaners and I) to those of Abbas Kiarostami (Close Up) and Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir), such films have intrigued... more...









