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The Art of Theatrical Design
Taylor and Francis 2014; US$ 63.95The Art of Theatrical Design: Elements of Visual Composition, Methods, and Practice addresses the core principles that develop the student designer into a true artist, providing a foundation that ensures success with each production design. This text concentrates on the skills necessary to create effective, evocative, and engaging theatrical designs... more...
New Directions in German Cinema
I.B.Tauris 2011; US$ 14.95Germany’s national film industry has been undergoing a remarkable resurgence since the beginning of the new millennium. German language films have been receiving Oscar nominations, the likes of 'Downfall' and 'The Lives of Others' have been winning Oscars, and all the main international festivals, from Berlin to Cannes, have been showcasing these... more...
Rat Pack Confidential
Crown/Archetype 1999; US$ 15.95For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas January 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme park, and the greatest singer in the history of American popular music summons a group of friends there to make a movie. One is an insouciant... more...
Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 46.00Movie audiences seem drawn, almost compelled, toward tales of the horrific and the repulsive. Partly because horror continues to evolve radically—every time the genre is deemed dead, it seems to come up with another twist—it has been one of the most often-dissected genres. Here, author Kendall Phillips selects ten of the most popular and influential... more...
The Dramatic Imagination
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 36.95The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design. Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students. The volume includes "A New Kind of Drama," "To... more...
Routledge Creative Writing Coursebook
Routledge 2005; US$ 37.95A practical guide to creative writing. Covers life writing, novels, short stories, poetry, screenwriting. Discusses literary theory, example texts, style, sentence structure, punctuation, vocabulary, courses, resources, getting published. more...
Tours et détours
Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa 2012; Not AvailableCette étude examine l’inscription du mythe de Babel dans des romans contemporains de langue française. more...
Writing Alone and with Others
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 13.99In Writing Alone and with Others , Schneider's acclaimed methods are available in a single, well-organized, and highly readable volume. The first part of the book guides the reader through the perils of the solitary writing life: fear, writer's block, and the bad habits of the internal critic. In the second section, Schneider describes the Amherst... more...
A Companion to Narrative Theory
Wiley 2008; US$ 234.00 US$ 210.60The 35 original essays in A Companion to Narrative Theory constitute the best available introduction to this vital and contested field of humanistic enquiry. Comprises 35 original essays written by leading figures in the field Includes contributions from pioneers in the field such as Wayne C. Booth, Seymour Chatman, J. Hillis Miller and Gerald... more...
Noise From The Writing Center
Utah State University Press 2003; US$ 16.95 US$ 14.41In Noise from the Writing Center, Boquet develops a theory of "noise" and excess as an important element of difference between the pedagogy of writing centers and the academy in general. Addressing administrative issues, Boquet strains against the bean-counting anxiety that seems to drive so much of writing center administration. Pedagogically, she... more...
