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Featuring the input of highly experienced instructors, this exciting textbook explroes key concepts and develops students analytical, research, and production skills. A section outlining approaches to production work considers the creation of texts in different media forms, and practical advice aides in developing research skills.

A new revised second edition of this introductory textbook, the recommended text for the WJEC A Level Media Studies course. It has been entirely rewritten and greatly expanded, with 3 new sections on the music industry, newspapers and radio.

This guide scores well on all points -- well-prepared and helpful." In the Picture A British cinema classic reinterpreted for twenty-first century students of Film and Media Studies. On its release in 1949, The Third Man received near-universal acclaim, and its reputation is, if anything, even higher today -- it was voted the Best British Film by a British Film Institute poll of critics and film-makers in 1999. Studying The Third Man applies t...

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Studying American Beauty is a comprehensive guide to the stylish and spectacularly successful film debut of director Sam Mendes and Six Feet Under creator Alan Ball. Jeremy Points considers eve-rything students and teachers of Film and Media Studies are likely to be interested in: cinematography, narrative, genre, representation, realism, ideology, institutions and audiences. But not only is this the definitive study guide to American Beauty, ...

Auteur's Alternatives to Hollywood: A Teacher's Guide is aimed explicitly at those requiring a short, sharp exposure to the cinemas of France, India and East Asia. The aim is both to expand the understanding of the cinemas -- with particular reference to the term 'New Wave' -- while also discovering new films to widen Film Studies teaching in general. Each of the three chapters includes a historical overview of the national/regional cinema und...

These Classroom Resources contains numerous suggestions for student exploration of children's comics. They are designed to open up the topic by asking students about their own comic/magazine reading through which they can explore such topics as representation and censorship. The tasks have been designed for differentiation of ability. The Resources also contains a week-by-week suggested lesson plan.

Distinct from 'magazines', children's comics are a discreet and fascinating medium, superficially familiar to us all, yet rarely the subject of study in Media Studies. But comics have been with us in their current form for over a hundred years and they remain hugely popular with their audience and very lucrative for their owners. Beginning with A Short History of Comics, the Teacher's Guide explores every area of the subject likely to be of re...

Comedy Films: Classroom Resources offers a range of classroom friendly pupil resource sheets containing exercises, essay questions and tasks that offer a framework of study for teachers of Film and Media Studies. Starting by asking 'Can comedy be called a genre?', Brian Dunbar then goes on to address the key concepts of Media Studies offering practical teaching solutions to looking at comedy films from such historical periods and movements as:...

Gladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fascinating example of how an old genre can be resuscitated for a new generation. The film's story is not complex yet the ways in which it is told says much about mainstream narrative techniques. And beneath its action-packed scenes and richly detailed sets, Gladiator carries specific values and messages which deserve close scrutiny. In Studying Gladiator,...

The story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of 'rags to riches' back story that makes not only the film itself, but the tale of its creation a tale worth telling. Inspired by a magazine headline, it was a poster before it was a screenplay, yet it stands in opposition to the High Concept Hollywood movie. Studying The Usual Suspects is an analysis of a film that is both a ripping yarn and an exercise in virtuoso technique. Author Judith Gunn of...

The Inquisitor's Handbook, a translation of a 1537 compilation of rules for inquisitorial personnel, introduces today's reader to the Spanish Inquisition in the same way a sixteenth-century inquisitor would have been introduced to his duties.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) was one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century and has recently undergone a major critical reappraisal. In this new study, Simon Avery examines a range of her poems, both well known and less familiar, drawn from across her career, in order to explore the concern with the search for a meaningful home which underpins much of her writing. In a series of interrelated chapters on Barrett Browning'...

Intervenes in debates about eighteenth-century writing, Romanticism, and literary history. By arguing that 'preromanticism' exists to patrol the limits of 'romantic' writing, this book questions approaches to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing, and to period-based study more generally.

Vampires have never been so popular, but some films stand out from the crowd. The Swedish film "Let The Right One In" is one of those films, combining the supernatural with social realism, set in a 1980s suburb.

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Facilitating the study of contemporary cinema, it offers a practical solution for teachers and students of film studies, media studies, and related disciplines.

Facilitating the study of contemporary cinema, it offers a practical solution for teachers and students of film studies, media studies, and related disciplines.

Looks at the art of cookery in Britain during and immediately after the Second World War. Includes recipes which have been adapted for the modern kitchen, information on food, cooking equipment, kitchen designs and the serving of meals.

One of Lorca's best known plays tells the story of a young peasant wife in rural Spain whose sole conscious desire is to embody what she regards as the natural, moral and social laws governing her life as a woman in motherhood.