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Publisher :Penguin UK Release Date :2001-06-28 ISBN :0141956127 Pages :192 pages Rating :4.1/5 (419 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud:
Download or read book Hideous Kinky written by Esther Freud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and stable amidst the shifting desert sands. ‘Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating story’ Spectator.
Publisher :Justin, Charles & Co. Release Date :2005 ISBN :1932112405 Pages :627 pages Rating :4.9/5 (321 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Reel Views 2 by James Berardinelli:
Download or read book Reel Views 2 written by James Berardinelli and published by Justin, Charles & Co.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Presents a collection of film reviews and criticism by James Berardinelli. Offers access to current reviews and an archive of past reviews. Includes reviews of selected films on video. Contains commentaries and opinions, as well as a FAQ section and a site search engine. Lists the films of the current year that have been reviewed, arranged by rating. Notes the star rating, the date of the review, and the release status for each film. Also notes the cast, the running length, and the letter rating of each movie.
Publisher :Taylor & Francis Release Date :2001-12 ISBN :9780415936965 Pages :724 pages Rating :4.9/5 (369 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The New York Times Film Reviews 1999-2000 by New York Times Theater Reviews:
Download or read book The New York Times Film Reviews 1999-2000 written by New York Times Theater Reviews and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: From the Oscar-winning blockbustersAmerican BeautyandShakespeare in Loveto Sundance oddities likeAmerican MovieandThe Tao of Steve, to foreign films such asAll About My Mother, the latest volume in this popular series features a chronological collection of facsimiles of every film review and awards article published inThe New York Timesbetween January 1999 and December 2000. Includes a full index of personal names, titles, and corporate names. This collection is an invaluable resource for all libraries.
Publisher :John Wiley & Sons Release Date :2009-11-02 ISBN :1405163291 Pages :257 pages Rating :4.4/5 (51 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The 1960s by Brian Ward:
Download or read book The 1960s written by Brian Ward and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Drawn from a wide range of perspectives and showcasing a variety of primary source materials, Brian Ward’s The 1960s: A Documentary Reader highlights the most important themes of the era. Supplies students with over 50 primary documents on the turbulent period of the 1960s in the United States Includes speeches, court decisions, acts of Congress, secret memos, song lyrics, cartoons, photographs, news reports, advertisements, and first-hand testimony A comprehensive introduction, document headnotes, and questions at the end of each chapter are designed to encourage students to engage with the material critically
Publisher :Oxford University Press Release Date :2016-09-05 ISBN :0190610018 Pages :592 pages Rating :4.1/5 (96 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 by Simon Gikandi:
Download or read book The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 written by Simon Gikandi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Why did the novel take such a long time to emerge in the colonial world? And, what cultural work did it come to perform in societies where subjects were not free and modes of social organization diverged from the European cultural centers where the novel gained its form and audience? Answering these questions and more, Volume 11, The Novel in Africa and the Caribbean since 1950 explores the institutions of cultural production that exerted influence in late colonialism, from missionary schools and metropolitan publishers to universities and small presses. How these structures provoke and respond to the literary trends and social peculiarities of Africa and the Caribbean impacts not only the writing and reading of novels in those regions, but also has a transformative effect on the novel as a global phenomenon. Together, the volume's 32 contributing experts tell a story about the close relationship between the novel and the project of decolonization, and explore the multiple ways in which novels enable readers to imagine communities beyond their own and thus made this form of literature a compelling catalyst for cultural transformation. The authors show that, even as the novel grows in Africa and the Caribbean as a mark of the elites' mastery of European form, it becomes the essential instrument for critiquing colonialism and for articulating the new horizons of cultural nationalism. Within this historical context, the volume examines works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Nadine Gordimer, George Lamming, Jamaica Kincaid, V.S. Naipaul, Zoe Wicomb, J. M. Coetzee, and many others.
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :2019-07-25 ISBN :1838714774 Pages :208 pages Rating :4.8/5 (387 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review British Cinema of the 90s by Robert Murphy:
Download or read book British Cinema of the 90s written by Robert Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This work examines major box office hits like 'The Full Monty' as well as critically acclaimed films like 'Under the Skin'. It explores the role of distribution and exhibition, the Americanisation of British film culture, Hollywood and Europe, changing representations of sexuality and ethnicity.
Publisher :New World Library Release Date :2011-02-09 ISBN :1577319974 Pages :256 pages Rating :4.5/5 (773 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Movie Lovers' Club by Cathleen Rountree:
Download or read book The Movie Lovers' Club written by Cathleen Rountree and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Large screen TVs and full-line DVD services have liberated movie lovers from fear of parking and stale popcorn. Across the country, movie lovers are staying in and creating their own version of book clubs — but without the homework. The Movie Lovers’ Club — the only guide for movie nights with friends — motivates readers to form their own Lovers’ Club clubs to explore the more than 100 excellent film suggestions, summaries, critical reviews, and insider anecdotes. Author Cathleen Rountree offers a year’s worth of must-see classic, contemporary, independent, and foreign films and provocative discussion questions to keep the cinematic conversation lively. With everything readers need to know to start a Movie Lovers’ Club, the book’s selections run the gamut and include powerful films such as To Kill a Mockingbird, Henry and June, and Real Women Have Curves. Whether you need advice for a political group, a girls’ night out party, or a band of indie film devotees, movie watching reaches new depths with ideas on where, when, and how to launch a film group.
Publisher :Intellect Books Release Date :2016-05-01 ISBN :1783203331 Pages :431 pages Rating :4.7/5 (832 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Cartomancy and Tarot in Film by Emily E. Auger:
Download or read book Cartomancy and Tarot in Film written by Emily E. Auger and published by Intellect Books. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In the first book-length study of Tarot cards on the silver screen, Emily E. Auger contextualizes cartomancy – the practice of fortune telling via playing cards – and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film. After providing an introduction to divination and cartomancy, Auger offers detailed descriptions and analyses of the roles that cartomancy and Tarot cards play in films. The book features an abbreviated filmography – including nearly 200 films – detailing their relationships to cartomancy. As Tarot communities continue to grow worldwide, Cartomancy and Tarot in Film will be of interest to scholars of esoteric studies, film, folklore, playing cards, popular culture and religion, as well as diviners the world over.
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing USA Release Date :2015-01-27 ISBN :1620408848 Pages :304 pages Rating :4.6/5 (24 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Mr. Mac and Me by Esther Freud:
Download or read book Mr. Mac and Me written by Esther Freud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: 1914. Thomas Maggs is thirteen and lives with his parents and sister at the Blue Anchor pub, in the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast. Born in winter while the sea stormed, Thomas is the youngest child, and the only son surviving. In Dunwich, life is quiet and shaped by the seasons: fishing and farming, the summer visitors, and the girls who come down from the Highlands to gut and pack the herring. Thomas visits his brothers' grave in the churchyard, sketches the boats from the harbor, and longs for adventure -- a chance to go to sea. Then one day a mysterious Scotsman and his red-haired wife arrive in the village. The man's name is Charles Rennie Mackintosh, but the locals are soon calling him Mac. Mac and his wife are both artists, regarded as eccentrics in town, but a source of wonder and fascination for Thomas. Yet just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared. The summer guests flee, replaced by regiments of soldiers on their way to Belgium. And as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior. Mr. Mac and Me is the story of an unlikely friendship, and a vivid portrait of one of the most brilliant and misunderstood artists of his generation.
Publisher :A&C Black Release Date :2014-06-19 ISBN :1441150226 Pages :224 pages Rating :4.4/5 (411 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Women's Fiction by Deborah Philips:
Download or read book Women's Fiction written by Deborah Philips and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Now in its second edition and with new chapters covering such texts as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love and 'yummy mummy' novels such as Allison Pearson's I Don't Know How She Does It, this is a wide-ranging survey of popular women's fiction from 1945 to the present. Examining key trends in popular writing for women in each decade, Women's Fiction offers case study readings of major British and American writers. Through these readings, the book explores how popular texts often neglected by feminist literary criticism have charted the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of women in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Publisher :Psychology Press Release Date :2003 ISBN :9780415262699 Pages :532 pages Rating :4.2/5 (626 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review An Introduction to Film Studies by Jill Nelmes:
Download or read book An Introduction to Film Studies written by Jill Nelmes and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: An Introduction to Film Studies has established itself as the leading textbook for students of cinema. This revised and updated third edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, and introduces some of the world's key national cinemas including British, Indian, Soviet and French. Written by experienced teachers in the field and lavishly illustrated with over 122 film stills and production shots, it will be essential reading for any student of film.Features of the third edition include:*full coverage of all the key topics at undergraduate level*comprehensive and up-to-date information and new case studies on recent films such as Gladiator , Spiderman , The Blair Witch Project, Fight Club , Shrek and The Matrix*annotated key readings, further viewing, website resources, study questions, a comprehensive bibliography and indexes, and a glossary of key terms will help lecturers prepare tutorials and encourage students to undertake independent study.Individual chapters include:*Film form and narrative*Spectator, audience and response*Critical approaches to Hollywood cinema: authorship, genre and stars*Animation: forms and meaning*Gender and film*Lesbian and gay cinema*British cinema*Soviet montage Cinema*French New Wave*Indian Cinema
Publisher :e-artnow sro Release Date : ISBN : Pages :1220 pages Rating :4./5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses by Wikipedia contributors:
Download or read book Focus On: 100 Most Popular 21St-century English Actresses written by Wikipedia contributors and published by e-artnow sro. This book was released on with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis:
Publisher :Cambridge Scholars Publishing Release Date :2010-02-19 ISBN :1443820458 Pages :285 pages Rating :4.4/5 (438 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Metamorphoses of Travel Writing by Grzegorz Moroz:
Download or read book Metamorphoses of Travel Writing written by Grzegorz Moroz and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-19 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This book reflects, comments on and adds to a fast growing field of travel writing studies. The twenty-five papers in this volume rely on a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and explore a diverse body of travel writing texts created over the last three hundred years in English, Polish, Hungarian and French. The book is divided into three parts. The first one includes papers which apply the findings of post-structuralism, generic and cultural criticism as well as narratology to explore theories, canons and genres in travel writing drawing material not only from non-fictional and fictional prose narratives but also from poetry and tragedy. The second and third parts contain papers on a wide selection of travel writing texts, both fictional and non-fictional, written in Anglophone, as well as other literary traditions. They are arranged chronologically: the second part is devoted to texts written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, while the third part focuses on those written in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :2007-11-01 ISBN :1441149511 Pages :170 pages Rating :4.4/5 (411 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Women's Fiction 1945-2005 by Deborah Philips:
Download or read book Women's Fiction 1945-2005 written by Deborah Philips and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for women from 1945 to the present. Each chapter identifies a specific genre in popular fiction for women which marked that period and provides case studies focusing on writers and texts which enjoyed a wide readership. Despite their popularity, these novels remain largely outside the 'canon' of women's writing, and are often unacknowledged by feminist literary criticism. However, these texts clearly touched a nerve with a largely female readership, and so offer a means of charting the changes in ideals of femininity, and in the tensions and contradictions in gender identities in the post-war period. Their analysis offers new insights into the shifting demands, aspirations and expectations of what a woman could and should be over the last half century. Through her analysis of women's writing and reading, Philips sets out to challenge the distinction between 'popular' and 'literary' fiction, arguing that neat categories such as 'popular', 'middle brow' and 'serious fiction' need more careful definition.
Publisher :Manchester University Press Release Date :2017-11-10 ISBN :1526114631 Pages :256 pages Rating :4.5/5 (261 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The hippie trail by Sharif Gemie:
Download or read book The hippie trail written by Sharif Gemie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This is the first history of the Hippie Trail. It records the joys and pains of budget travel to Kathmandu, India, Afghanistan and other ‘points east’ in the 1960s and 1970s. Written in a clear, simple style, it provides detailed analysis of the motivations and the experiences of hundreds of thousands of hippies who travelled eastwards. The book is structured around four key debates: were the travellers simply motivated by a search for drugs? Did they encounter love or sexual freedom on the road? Were they basically just tourists? Did they resemble pilgrims? It also considers how the travellers have been represented in films, novels and autobiographical accounts, and will appeal to those interested in the Trail or the 1960s counterculture, as well as students taking courses relating to the 1960s.
Publisher :Bloomsbury Publishing Release Date :2019-07-25 ISBN :1838715339 Pages :672 pages Rating :4.8/5 (387 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Directors in British and Irish Cinema by Robert Murphy:
Download or read book Directors in British and Irish Cinema written by Robert Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A guide to directors who have worked in the British and Irish film industries between 1895 and 2005. Each of its 980 entries on individuals directors gives a resume of the director's career, evaluates their achievements and provides a complete filmography. It is useful for those interested in film-making in Britain and Ireland.
Publisher :Hachette UK Release Date :2012-01-10 ISBN :1844037193 Pages :960 pages Rating :4.8/5 (44 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Peter Boxall:
Download or read book 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die written by Peter Boxall and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Completely revised and updated to include the most up-to-date selections, this is a bold and bright reference book to the novels and the writers that have excited the world's imagination. This authoritative selection of novels, reviewed by an international team of writers, critics, academics, and journalists, provides a new take on world classics and a reliable guide to what's hot in contemporary fiction. Featuring more than 700 illustrations and photographs, presenting quotes from individual novels and authors, and completely revised for 2012, this is the ideal book for everybody who loves reading.
