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  • The Politics & Poetics of Black Film

    Nothing But a Man

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct ... Read more

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  • Race and the Revolutionary Impulse in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Ivan Dixon's 1973 film, The Spook Who Sat by the Door, captures the intensity of social and political upheaval during a volatile period in American history. Based on Sam Greenlee's novel by the same name, the film is a searing portrayal of an American Black underclass brought to the brink of revolution. This series of critical essays situates the film in its social, political, and cinematic ... Read more

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  • Humans on New Worlds?

    There are other species out there. How are we going to react with these species, if we meet with them at all? Forget Star Wars, Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc. Those are children's show, and we need to begin adult, pragmatic thinking and action today to reach the stars and new worlds tomorrow. ... Read more

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  • From Street to Screen

    Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the ... Read more

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  • Romance Island (Illustrated)

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    Romance Island is about a newspaperman who follows a beautiful woman on a search for her father to a marvelous hidden island, where the denizens travel through the fourth dimension, employ perpetual motion and do many other wonderful things. Two charming love affairs, thrilling perils, pervasive humor, most unusual scenes, a vein of piquant sentiment, a style of grace unmatched, unite to make of ... Read more

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  • Exploring Film through Bad Cinema

    by David C. Wall ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    Exploring Film through Bad Cinema offers an overview of the practice of film analysis through a specific focus on the concept of “bad” cinema within a series of broad cultural and historical contexts.Providing a wide-ranging discussion of film from multiple perspectives, including history, aesthetics, and criticism, this broad theoretical engagement illustrates the ways in which the registers of ... Read more

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  • Leading Special Education

    How to Support, Retain, and Empower Teachers for Success (A leader’s guide to support special education educators)

    Supporting and empowering special education teachers is essential for student success, as author Breauna C. Wall emphasizes with this guide. She advocates for reform in special education programs, including robust systems of support, mentoring, and ongoing professional learning for special education teachers. These efforts promote effective teaching, foster collaboration among general and special ... Read more

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  • Child Life Lesson 101

    A sprinkle of magic, a puff of laughter, and a wiggle of wonder!Discover three delightful tales that turn everyday moments into unforgettable adventures!In The Freckle Gifting Tooth Fairy, find out how fairies leave behind freckles and collect lost teeth with a sprinkle of sparkle.In The Toot!, giggle through the truth that everyone toots-and it's perfectly okay!And in The Snoggles, meet the silly ... Read more

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  • From Street to Screen

    Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Charles Burnett's 1977 film, Killer of Sheep is one of the towering classics of African American cinema. As a deliberate counterpoint to popular blaxploitation films of the period, it combines harsh images of the banality of everyday oppression with scenes of lyrical beauty, and depictions of stark realism with flights of comic fancy. From Street to Screen: Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep is the ... Read more

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  • The Politics and Poetics of Black Film

    Nothing But a Man

    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter turned family man who struggles with the pressures of small-town life and the limitations placed on him and his community in the Deep South, an area long fraught with racism. Though unmistakably about race and civil rights, the film makes no direct ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Work and Identity

    Historical and Cultural Contexts

    by J. Kirk, C. Wall ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work, recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three occupational sectors in particular teachers, bank workers and the railway industry it also presents an argument that is both more general than this and ... Read more

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  • Cracks in My Sidewalk

    by John C. Wall ...
    Read of the heroic exploits of a young man, Robert Mitchel, who at the age of eighteen is required to transition from a young man to an adult in a matter of minutes. The story tells of Bob’s experiences during the invasion of France at Normandy and islands in the Far East and the awards he was presented for bravery. Read about Bob’s brief romantic encounter with an attractive English girl, his ... Read more

    $3.99 USD