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  • Comics and Intermediality

    Edited by Nancy Pedri ...
    Contributions by Karine Abadie, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jan Baetens, Paul Fisher Davies, Brian Fies, Meags Fitzgerald, Frederik Byrn Køhlert, Mélanie Leclerc, Nancy Pedri, Giada Peterle, Barbara Postema, Véronique Sina, Sarah Thorne, and Paul TuckerComics and Intermediality offers a fresh look at comics through the lens of intermediality, exploring how comics intersect with, draw from, and expand ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A Concise Dictionary of Comics

    by Nancy Pedri ...
    Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship.A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Experiencing Visual Storyworlds

    Focalization in Comics

    Edited by Silke Horstkotte, Nancy Pedri ...
    Series series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
    Experiencing Visual Storyworlds illuminates how comics express what characters and narrators see, think, and feel. Drawing on the narratological concept of focalization, which describes the filtering of a story through the minds of characters and narrators, Silke Horstkotte and Nancy Pedri analyze comics from a range of genres, including graphic memoir, graphic historiography, silent comics, and ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Enlightening Encounters

    Photography in Italian Literature

    Edited by Nancy Pedri, Giorgia Alu ...
    Enlightening Encounters traces the impact of photography on Italian literature from the medium’s invention in 1839 to the present day. Investigating the ways in which Italian literature has responded to photographic practice and aesthetics, the contributors use a wide range of theoretical perspectives to examine a variety of canonical and non-canonical authors and a broad selection of literary ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

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    Life Writing in Pictures

    by Elisabeth El Refaie ...
    A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth.In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

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    Life Writing in Pictures

    by Elisabeth El Refaie ...
    A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth.In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns ... Read more

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  • A Theory of Adaptation

    by Linda Hutcheon ...
    A Theory of Adaptation explores the continuous development of creative adaptation, and argues that the practice of adapting is central to the story-telling imagination. Linda Hutcheon develops a theory of adaptation through a range of media, from film and opera, to video games, pop music and theme parks, analysing the breadth, scope and creative possibilities within each.This new edition is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • On Writing Fiction: Rethinking conventional wisdom about the craft

    by David Jauss ...
    Possibilities and Paradoxes in the Craft of Fiction The pieces of a satisfying novel or story seem to fit together so effortlessly, so seamlessly, that it's easy to find yourself wondering, "how on earth did the author do this?" The answer is simple: He sat alone at his desk, considered an array of options, and made smart, careful choices. In On Writing Fiction, award-winning author and respected ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Introduction to Film Studies

    Edited by Jill Nelmes ...
    I**ntroduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema.This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, traces the historical development of film and introduces some of the worlds key national cinemas. A range of theories and theorists are presented from Formalism to Feminism, from Eisenstein to ... Read more

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  • Poetics of Cinema

    by David Bordwell ...
    Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to achieve certain effects? For Bordwell, films are made things, existing within historical contexts, and aim to create determinate effects. Beginning ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Literature into Film

    Theory and Practical Approaches

    by Linda Costanzo Cahir ...
    For most people, film adaptation of literature can be summed up in one sentence: "The movie wasn't as good as the book." This volume undertakes to show the reader that not only is this evaluation not always true but sometimes it is intrinsically unfair. Movies based on literary works, while often billed as adaptations, are more correctly termed translations. A director and his actors translate the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Narrative

    Edited by David Herman ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to ... Read more

    $46.79 USD