Language Arts category: 28677 books
Canadian Television
Text and Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical analysis of the wider cultural,...
Don't You Know Who I Am?
Insider Diaries of Fame, Power and Naked Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying. Let me add another to the list: the moment I sang a duet to the the "Macarena" with Timmy Mallett, live to millions of people...'
Sacked from his high-profile...
Midpoint Magic
How to Swing Your Screenplay or Novel in a New Direction and Say Good-Bye to Sagging Story Middles That Put Audiences to Sleep
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Stop Sagging Middles from Derailing Your Story (& Your Writing Career)
The middle of your story.
Nightmare.
And no wonder.
The middle (or Act Two) is just so dang long.
There’s another reason why plotting a novel or screenplay is hard: plot is based on...
by Jule Selbo
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Film Genre for the Screenwriter is a practical study of how classic film genre components can be used in the construction of a screenplay. Based on Jule Selbo’s popular course, this accessible guide includes an examination of the historical origins of specific film genres, how and why these genres...
You've Got a Book in You
A Stress-Free Guide to Writing the Book of Your Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Writing a book is fun and easy--yes, FUN AND EASY--but it may not always feel that way. How do you find the time to write? How do you keep momentum? How do you deal with the horror of showing anyone a single sentence of your work-in-progress? The answers remain fun and easy, and author Elizabeth Sims...
The Magic of Memoir
Inspiration for the Writing Journey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
• Myers and Warner have secured Elizabeth Gilbert, Mary Karr, Dani Shapiro, and Sue William Silverman, and will include interviews from at least ten best-selling memoirists. • Myers is the founder and president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, an internationally renowned association...
by Leila Guerriero
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Obsession and mastery in their purest states: the story of one dancer’s attempt to win the biggest contest of his life.
Every year, at the height of summer, the remote Argentine village of Laborde holds the national malambo contest. Centuries-old, this shatteringly demanding traditional gaucho...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics provides a comprehensive overview of this important and dynamic area of study and research. Language is indispensable to initiating, justifying, legitimatising and coordinating action as well as negotiating conflict and, as such, is intrinsically linked...
by Yi Du
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
This book investigates first language (L1) and second language (L2) use in Chinese university classrooms, focusing on the experiences of four Chinese EFL teachers who were teaching non-English major students at four different proficiency levels. It examines these four teachers' actual use of L1 and...
Sundays at Eight
25 Years of Stories from C-SPAN'S Q&A and Booknotes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
For the last 25 years, Sunday nights at 8pm on C-SPAN has been appointment television for many Americans. During that time, host Brian Lamb has invited people to his Capitol Hill studio for hour-long conversations about contemporary society and history. In today's soundbite culture that hour remains...
Imagining Jewish Art
Encounters with the Masters in Chagall, Guston, and Kitaj
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Short-listed for the Art and Christian Enquiry/Mercers' International Book Award 2009: 'a book which makes an outstanding contribution to the dialogue between religious faith and the visual arts'. What does modern Jewish art look like? Where many scholars, critics, and curators have gone searching...
by Leo Tolstoy
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Leo Tolstoy's fascinating classic treatise on art is as relevant today as it was over one hundred years ago. Highly-readable, often witty, anyone with an interest in the nature of art and its connection to what it is to be human will find this book a treat.
For the first time, this long out-of-print...
Breaking Bad
Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Breaking Bad*: Critical Essays on the Contexts, Politics, Style, and Reception of the Television Series*, edited by David P. Pierson, explores the contexts, politics, and style of AMC's original series Breaking Bad. The book's first section locates and addresses the series from several contemporary...
by Tim Fountain
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
How to write a play and get it produced - a manual for playwrights.
Playwright and former literary manager Tim Fountain guides the budding playwright over the many hurdles involved in getting a play on - from finding a story that only you know, through the detailed construction of the play,...