Dominic Lennard: 4 books

Today’s film scholars draw from a dizzying range of theoretical perspectives—they’re just as likely to cite philosopher Gilles Deleuze as they are to quote classic film theorist André Bazin. To students first encountering them, these theoretical lenses for viewing film can seem exhilarating,...

Insight Text Guides - Life of Pi is designed to help secondary English students understand and analyse the text. This comprehensive guide to the film directed by Ang Lee contains detailed character and scene analysis and explores language, genre, ideas and themes. Essay questions and sample answers help to prepare students for creating written responses to the text.

The Insight Text Guide on Christina Stead's The Man Who Loved Children provides a detailed analysis of the novel as well as explanations of social, cultural and historical contexts, genre, structure, language, characters and themes. It includes an overview of critical responses to the text and develops...

nsight Text Guides are written by practising English teachers, professional writers, reviewers and academics who are experts in their fields. Each guide includes the following: • Character map • Notes on the author’s life and work • Brief synopsis and character summaries • Context and background...