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Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion
Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companionis an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.
Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what...
Ozu International
Essays on the Global Influences of a Japanese Auteur
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
In Japan and much of Europe, Ozu is widely considered to be one of the finest film directors who ever lived. While Ozu has a strong reputation in the West, his films are not as well-known or widely appreciated in the U.S. as they are elsewhere. A notable exception to this trend is film critic Roger...
Politics as Form in Lars von Trier
A Post-Brechtian Reading
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This is the first study that employs a materialist framework to discuss the political implications of form in the films of Lars von Trier. Focusing mainly on early films, Politics as Form in Lars von Trier identifies recurring formal elements in von Trier's oeuvre and discusses the formal complexity...
Darkness in the Bliss-Out
A Reconsideration of the Films of Steven Spielberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
While there has been a significant outpouring of scholarship on Steven Spielberg over the past decade, his films are still frequently discussed as being paternalistic, escapist, and reliant on uncomplicated emotions and complicated special effects. Even those who view his work favorably often see...
Dark Energy
Hitchcock's Absolute Camera and the Physics of Cinematic Spacetime
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Alfred Hitchcock and the cinema grew up together. Born in 1899, four years after the first 'official' film showing in Paris, Hitchcock demonstrated an early fascination with the new art of the cinema. He entered the film industry in 1920, and by 1925, he had directed his first feature-length film,...
Making Short Films, Third Edition
The Complete Guide from Script to Screen
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Making movies is the most exciting way to earn a living and it is not surprising that media and film studies remain the most popular courses at colleges across the western world. A short film provides an opportunity for elliptical, poetic, condensed story telling. Shorts can take risks rarely seen...
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction
The Second Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Survivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in the 1960s to the first cohort of Nazi-era survivors who massed a public campaign focusing on remembrance of Nazi racial crimes. The survivors' decision to engage...
The Forgotten Kindertransportees
The Scottish Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Forgotten Kindertransportees offers a compelling new exploration of the Kindertransport episode in Britain. The Kindertransport brought close to 10,000 unaccompanied children and young people to Britain on a trans-migrant basis between 1938 and 1939, with an estimated 70% of these children being...
by Donald Walter Baronowski
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Polybius and Roman Imperialism explores in depth the complexity of the Greek historian Polybius'
views on the expansion of Roman power. Although he considered imperialism intrinsically noble, and both admired and supported Roman domination, Polybius also evinced detachment from the ruling power. This...
Hirohito's War
The Pacific War, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016
In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving...
Greek to GCSE: Part 2
Revised edition for OCR GCSE Classical Greek (9–1)
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
First written in response to a JACT survey of over 100 schools, and now endorsed by OCR, this textbook has become a standard resource for students in the UK and for readers across the world who are looking for a clear and thorough introduction to the language of the ancient Greeks. Revised throughout...
Selections from Ovid Heroides
An Edition for Intermediate Students
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
This is the first intermediate-student edition of a selection from Ovid's Heroides. Heroides VI, lines 1–100 and 127–64, and Heroides X, lines 1–76 and 119–50 are included as Latin text with an accompanying commentary and vocabulary. Focusing on a deliberately limited number of poems, this...
Excursions with Thoreau
Philosophy, Poetry, Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious.
Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking†? reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer,...
Debating Modern Revolution
The Evolution of Revolutionary Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion...