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The downward spiral of a tormented soul. A young man working his way through medical college long ago seems drawn into the darkness against his will... or maybe not? His life becomes one of stealing hope, not giving it. This is a tale of that time and that country, of families that his path crossed, a tale of unrelated lives stitched together only by a dark thread made of his elusive shadow. The Pale Thin Man is a tapestry of light and dark, o...

This is the story of two sisters who are born into a peaceful and beautiful isolated valley. But fate or Providence has a job for each of them far from home.The story tells of how they find a path over the forbidding crags that hem their valley in, although nobody else believed it even existed, and so they make their way at last to the kingdom their ancestors fled from long ago, though as yet they do not know any of their history.The girls gro...

The downward spiral of a tormented soul. A young man working his way through medical college long ago seems drawn into the darkness against his will... or maybe not? His life becomes one of stealing hope, not giving it. This is a tale of that time and that country, of families that his path crossed, a tale of unrelated lives stitched together only by a dark thread made of his elusive shadow.The Pale Thin Man is a tapestry of light and dark, of...

Teacher TV: Seventy Years of Teachers on Television, Second Edition examines some of the most influential teacher characters presented on television from the earliest sitcoms to contemporary dramas and comedies. Both topical and chronological, the book follows a general course across decades and focuses on dominant themes and representations. Although each chapter presents an overview of the all the teachers on television for each decade, the ...

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This updated and expanded anthology offers an engaging overview of one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming: the sitcom. Through an analysis of formulaic conventions, the contributors address critical identities such as race, gender, and sexuality, and overarching structures such as class and family. Organized by decade, chapters explore postwar domestic ideology and working-class masculinity in the 1950s, the comp...

Despite the popularity of the sitcom, one of the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of television programming, The Sitcom Reader is the first book to offer critical essays devoted specifically to the form. The contributors address important topics in relation to sitcoms, such as conventions of the form, the family, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, work and social class, and ideology, and they do so from a variety of perspectives, including...

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