Re-takes : Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages
John Mowitt
Book Description A sustained theoretical reevaluation of "film languages," both visual and verbal....
The Night I Was Chased by a Vampire and Other Stories
Kaye Umansky
Book DescriptionA boy takes refuge in a sinister, crumbling castle and gets the shock of a lifetime. An empty suit of armour goes out for a nice walk and gives people a nasty turn. Spooks from the ghost train have a wonderful ride on the dodgem cars whenthe fairground's closed. A respectable bogey family are upset when an uncouth troll family move in next door. These four hilarious stories are written in jaunty, catchy verse that's just right for beginning readers to tackle on their own. They have already proved their popularity with children who love the scary plots and the comic characters, and are now brought together in one book with delicious new drawings....
Horrible Harry and the Locked Closet
Suzy Kline
Book DescriptionHorrible Harry has discovered the biggest mystery ever in Room 3B! There's a locked closet in the classroom that's been sealed off for years, and he wants to find out what's inside. Harry can't solve this mystery alone, so Miss Mackle,Song Lee, and the rest of the class join in the detective work. Along the way they encounter some surprises--from old school rumors to a hidden trap door to . . . eyeballs! What secret treasures does the closet hold? Is it something more horrible thaneven Harry can imagine?...
Conjunctions #44: An Anatomy Of Roads: The Quest Issue (Conjunctions)
Book DescriptionLeaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it's to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue , explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex process of defamiliarization as the ultimate path to knowing oneself. John Barth contributes an astonishing, hilarious novella entitled, "I've Been Told: A Story's Story," which may be the ultimate quest narrative in that the story of a quester is narrated by the quest itself. Young Bristish author and Booker Award finalist for his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things , Jon McGregor offers a story of a distraught man who travels to an unnamed island in search of his lost father. David Schuman's story "Miss" is an eerie modern desert journey in which a man and his daughter, who is convinced that she is a cat, encounters the mother who abandoned him working in a Twilight Zone-like diner in the middle......
Moo Cow Kaboom!
Book DescriptionOne night, while the pigs and chickens are sound asleep -- KABOOM! -- Farmer George's Moo Cow disappears! A low-down Space Cowboy has whisked her off to a galaxy far, far away. What's this sweet cow to do now, forced to become the Wild Beast Earthling Moo Cow at the Inter-Galactic Rodeo? Saddle up and get ready to ride Thacher Hurd's zany trip to Planet 246 and back!...
Book Description A sustained theoretical reevaluation of "film languages," both visual and verbal....
Book DescriptionA boy takes refuge in a sinister, crumbling castle and gets the shock of a lifetime. An empty suit of armour goes out for a nice walk and gives people a nasty turn. Spooks from the ghost train have a wonderful ride on the dodgem cars whenthe fairground's closed. A respectable bogey family are upset when an uncouth troll family move in next door. These four hilarious stories are written in jaunty, catchy verse that's just right for beginning readers to tackle on their own. They have already proved their popularity with children who love the scary plots and the comic characters, and are now brought together in one book with delicious new drawings....
Book DescriptionHorrible Harry has discovered the biggest mystery ever in Room 3B! There's a locked closet in the classroom that's been sealed off for years, and he wants to find out what's inside. Harry can't solve this mystery alone, so Miss Mackle,Song Lee, and the rest of the class join in the detective work. Along the way they encounter some surprises--from old school rumors to a hidden trap door to . . . eyeballs! What secret treasures does the closet hold? Is it something more horrible thaneven Harry can imagine?...
Book DescriptionLeaving home is a dangerous business. Whether it's to walk across the street or travel to another continent, one never returns the same. Conjunctions: 44, An Anatomy of Roads: The Quest Issue , explores in fiction and poetry the fascinating, complex process of defamiliarization as the ultimate path to knowing oneself. John Barth contributes an astonishing, hilarious novella entitled, "I've Been Told: A Story's Story," which may be the ultimate quest narrative in that the story of a quester is narrated by the quest itself. Young Bristish author and Booker Award finalist for his first novel, If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things , Jon McGregor offers a story of a distraught man who travels to an unnamed island in search of his lost father. David Schuman's story "Miss" is an eerie modern desert journey in which a man and his daughter, who is convinced that she is a cat, encounters the mother who abandoned him working in a Twilight Zone-like diner in the middle......
Book DescriptionOne night, while the pigs and chickens are sound asleep -- KABOOM! -- Farmer George's Moo Cow disappears! A low-down Space Cowboy has whisked her off to a galaxy far, far away. What's this sweet cow to do now, forced to become the Wild Beast Earthling Moo Cow at the Inter-Galactic Rodeo? Saddle up and get ready to ride Thacher Hurd's zany trip to Planet 246 and back!...