"The Art of the Ridiculous Sublime" is first of all the detailed reading of David Lynch's "Lost Highway", based on …
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, …
This book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative "laboratory," a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical …
This book not only discloses and examines different functions and concepts of authorship in fiction and theory from the 1950s …
After the End of Art presents Danto's first full-scale reformulation of his original insight, showing how, with the eclipse of …
'I am aware that, once my pen intervenes, I can make whatever I like out of what I was.' Paul …
A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader …
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Bringing together the human story of care with its representation in film, fiction and memoir, this book combines an analysis …
To create a great video game, you must start with a solid game design: A well-designed game is easier to …
In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. …
How should we understand the fear and fascination elicited by the accounts of communicable disease outbreaks that proliferated, following the …
Thomas Moore surveys all the major, and often confusing, backgrounds in Gravity's Rainbow to help Pynchon's reader understand the weird, …
The Maximalist Novel sets out to define a new genre of contemporary fiction that developed in the United States from …
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Examines the major theories and debates surrounding the production and reception of television over the years. This title considers the …
Hermione Lee is one of the leading literary biographers in the English-speaking world, the author of widely acclaimed lives of …
A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach …
Storytelling is an art, as well as a skill. It allows the listener to take an idea and shape it …
Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information …
Mark as Story: An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel, originally published in 1982 and extensively revised in 1999, …
[Sternberg] has written a very important book, both for his comprehensiveness and for the clearly-avowed faith stance from which he …