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  • Alan Garner and the work of time

    Edited by Robert Edgar, Wayne Johnson, John Marland ...
    Series series Twenty-First Century Perspectives
    Alan Garner has been described by Philip Pullman as ‘the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien’. This book is the first collected edition to critically analyse Garner’s body of work. This comprehensive analysis stretches from Garner’s early work, from the straightforward magical world of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen (1960) to the more challenging ‘adolescent fiction’ of The Owl ... Read more

    $91.49 USD

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  • Horrifying Children

    Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Television

    Edited by Lauren Stephenson, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Horrifying Children examines weird and eerie children's television and literature via critical analysis, memoir and autoethnography.There has been an explosion of interest in the impact of children's television and literature of the late twentieth century. In particular, the 1970s, '80s and '90s are seen as decades that shaped a great deal of the contemporary cultural landscape. Television of this ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition

    by Dr. Alan G. Smith, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of 'Hardyan Folk Horror'. Hardy's novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardy's Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Basics Film-Making 02: Screenwriting

    by Mr James Richards, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Series series Basics Filmmaking
    Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film. The book teaches the key elements of screenwriting through examining areas such as dialogue, sound, setting, shots and structure. It also provides advice to new film-makers on how to market their productions. This ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Language of Film

    by Steven Rawle, Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    An effective filmmaker needs to have a good understanding of how film language works, and more importantly, how to actively influence an audience's thoughts and feelings and guide their gaze around the screen.Packed with examples from classic and contemporary cinema, The Language of Film reveals the essential building blocks of film and explains how the screen communicates meaning to its audience. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Adaptation for Screenwriters

    by Professor or Dr. Robert Edgar, Dr. John Marland ...
    Develop the critical and creative skills to 'translate' a story from page to screen with this step-by-step guide to the process of screen adaptation you'll learn to:- interrogate a novel or short story to release its 'inner film'- convert fictional prose into visual drama- overcome the obstacles presented by different media 'languages'- approach key strategic decisions - both technical and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • The Secret Life of Plays

    by Steve Waters ...
    A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Gothic

    Edited by Catherine Spooner, Emma McEvoy ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    In a wide ranging series of introductory essays written by some of the leading figures in the field, this essential guide explores the world of Gothic in all its myriad forms throughout the mid-eighteenth Century to the internet age.The Routledge Companion to Gothic includes discussion on:the history of Gothicgothic throughout the English-speaking world i.e. London and USA as well as the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley

    Edited by Esther Schor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Known from her day to ours as 'the Author of Frankenstein', Mary Shelley indeed created one of the central myths of modernity. But she went on to survive all manner of upheaval - personal, political, and professional - and to produce an oeuvre of bracing intelligence and wide cultural sweep. The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley helps readers to assess for themselves her remarkable body of work. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Literature of Terror: Volume 2

    The Modern Gothic

    by David Punter ...
    The Literature of Terror: the Modern Gothic is the second volume in David Punter's impressive survey of gothic writing covering over two centuries. This long awaited second edition has been expanded to take into account the latest critical research, and is now published in two volumes. Volume One covers the period from 1765 to the Edwardian age while Volume Two discusses modern gothic, starting ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein

    Edited by Andrew Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Frankenstein consists of sixteen original essays on Mary Shelley's novel by leading scholars, providing an invaluable introduction to Frankenstein and its various critical contexts. Theoretically informed but accessibly written, this volume relates Frankenstein to various social, literary, scientific and historical contexts, and outlines how critical theories such as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley

    by Madeleine Callaghan ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Percy Bysshe Shelley takes stock of current developments in the study of a major Romantic poet and prose-writer, and seeks to advance Shelley studies in new directions. It consists of forty-two chapters written by an international cast of established and emerging scholar-critics. This Handbook is divided into five thematic sections: Biography and Relationships; Prose; Poetry ... Read more

    $35.09 USD