Wordtamer

Author : Judy Waite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781315527956

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Wordtamer by Judy Waite Pdf

Imagine a funfair in the classroom... invite dragons to school...let pupils travel through time! Written by award-winning children’s author Judy Waite, Wordtamer offers over fifty ideas for exciting, innovative writing activities and creative workshops. The book explores how authors actually work and what they achieve through their methods. It considers how teachers and children can incorporate these techniques into their own work, and so improve creative writing. Wordtamer provides easy-to-follow instructions to: set up and run inspiring writing lessons and workshops cover basic elements such as character and setting identify craft skills that link writing with the school curriculum develop ideas into contemporary, science fiction, fantasy or time-travel scenarios using tried-and-tested templates that expand on core concepts engage reluctant writers by using visual and kinaesthetic approaches develop independent and group-work practice enrich creative practice and awareness explore different writing styles improve teaching styles and children’s writing through a range of innovative and interactive activities appreciate why, as well as how, these techniques are so effective. Underpinned by theory and Judy’s own experience of working as an author in schools and running writing workshops for all ages, Wordtamer offers step-by-step, inspiring plans for creative writing lessons that will make a buzz in the classroom. Pupils won’t just create characters...they will become them.

Author : Eugene P. Walz
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9042012099

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Canada's Best Features by Eugene P. Walz Pdf

Long recognized for outstanding National Film Board documentaries and innovative animated movies, Canada has recently emerged from the considerable shadow of the Hollywood elephant with a series of feature films that have captured the attention of audiences around the world. This is the first anthology to focus on Canada's feature films - those acknowledged as its very best. With essays by senior academics and leading scholars from across the country as well as some fresh new voices, Canada's Best Features offers penetrating analyses of fifteen award-winning films. Internationally acclaimed directors David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, and Claude Jutra are represented here. Noteworthy films include Mon oncle Antoine, often cited as Canada's number one film of all time, such Cannes Festival favourites as Le déclin de l'empire américain and Exotica, and cult films Careful by Guy Maddin and Masala by Srinivas Krishna. The essays offer the latest word on these films and filmmakers, done from a variety of perspectives. Some of the films have never been examined in-depth before. Complete filmographies and bibliographies accompany each essay. A contextualizing introduction by Professor Gene Walz provides the necessary overview. An annotated bibliography of books on the Canadian film industry completes this impressive package.

Author : Richard Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567686893

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T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film by Richard Walsh Pdf

The T&T Clark Handbook of Jesus and Film introduces postgraduate readers to the critical field of Jesus and/on film. The bulk of biblical films feature Jesus, as protagonist, in cameo, or as a looming background presence or pattern. The handbook assesses the field in light of the work of important biblical film critics including chapters from the leading voices in the field and showcasing the diversity of work done by scholars in the field. Movies discussed include The Passion of the Christ, The King of Kings, Jesus of Nazareth, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Son of Man, and Mary Magdalene. The chapters range across two broad areas: 1) Jesus films, understood broadly as filmed passion plays, other relocations of Jesus, historical Jesus treatments, and Jesus adjacent cinema (privileging invented characters or “minor” gospel characters); and 2) other cinematic Jesuses, including followers who imitate Jesus devotionally or aesthetically, (Christian) Christ figures, antichrists, yet other messiahs, and competing Jesuses in a pluralist world. As one leaves the confines of Christian theology, the question of what a film or interpreter is doing with Jesus or Christ becomes something to be determined, not necessarily something traditional.

Author : Malek Khouri,Darrell Varga
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802093882

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Working on Screen by Malek Khouri,Darrell Varga Pdf

Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy.

Author : George E. Toles
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0814329462

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A House Made of Light by George E. Toles Pdf

When the lights go down and the film starts to roll, we give ourselves over to the magic of movies. But as George Toles observes, what we experience in this house of light may strike closer to home than we imagine. In eleven essays, Toles combines aesthetic inquiry with a psychology of spectatorship to illuminate the dialogue between sentiment and irony that unfolds in every good movie. Reflecting a literary critic's and professional screenwriter's ongoing love affair with cinema, each essay plunges the reader into the experience of one or more films, inviting us to ponder the nature and implications of that experience. Toles considers a wide variety of film experience, from Frank Capra to the Coen brothers to Alfred Hitchcock. However escapist a trip to the movies might be, says Toles, there is no escaping some version of "home" in every film experience. Toles examines important homes-from the cottage in Random Harvest to the foreboding Bates house in Psycho-to suggest that the house of film is a frame we long to enter in the spirit of homecoming but one that we cannot possess any more securely than the lost home of our beginnings. As film study marks a return to art-centered criticism, A House Made of Light breaks new ground in its assessment of the creation-and enjoyment-of movies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : French-Canadian literature
ISBN : IND:30000025460894

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Québec Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781927356593

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Film and the City by George Melnyk Pdf

Most Canadians are city dwellers, a fact often unacknowledged by twentieth-century Canadian films, with their preference for themes of wilderness survival or rural life. Modernist Canadian films tend to support what film scholar Jim Leach calls “the nationalist-realist project,” a documentary style that emphasizes the exoticism and mythos of the land. Over the past several decades, however, the hegemony of Anglo-centrism has been challenged by francophone and First Nations perspectives and the character of cities altered by a continued influx of immigrants and the development of cities as economic and technological centers. No longer primarily defined through the lens of rural nostalgia, Canadian urban identity is instead polyphonic, diverse, constructed through multiple discourses and mediums, an exchange rather than a strict orientation. Taking on the urban as setting and subject, filmmakers are ideally poised to create and reflect multiple versions of a single city. Examining fourteen Canadian films produced from 1989 to 2007, including Denys Arcand’s Jésus de Montréal (1989), Jean-Claude Lauzon’s Léolo (1992), Mina Shum’s Double Happiness (1994), Clément Virgo’s Rude (1995), and Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg (2007), Film and the City is the first comprehensive study of Canadian film and “urbanity”—the totality of urban culture and life. Drawing on film and urban studies and building upon issues of identity formation in Canadian studies, Melnyk considers how filmmakers, films, and urban audiences experience, represent, and interpret urban spatiality, visuality, and orality. In this way, Film and the City argues that Canadian narrative film of the postmodern period has aided in articulating a new national identity.

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : Banff, Alta. : Banff Centre Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114511053

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My Mother is an Alien by George Melnyk Pdf

How do we connect to film on a personal level? Written by critically acclaimed Alberta author George Melnyk, My Mother is an Alien brings autobiographical responses to film, daringly exposing the author's personal insights, beliefs and sensitivities. Ten essays explore Canadian and international film. Essays delve into such films as Leolo, Last Night, Clearcut and, as the title implies, Alien.

Author : Bill Marshall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773521032

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Quebec National Cinema by Bill Marshall Pdf

Instead, he shows that while the allegory of nation marks Quebec film production, it also leads to a tension between textual and contextual forces, between homogeneity and heterogeneity, and between major and minor modes of being and identity.".

Author : Peter Billingham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781443869232

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Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems by Peter Billingham Pdf

This volume represents the first ever collection of essays on Leonard Cohen to be published in the UK and one of the very first to be produced internationally. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s award-winning, authorised biographer Sylvie Simmons through to discussions of major themes in Cohen’s output, such as spirituality and desire, and include creative reflections from a filmmaker and poets upon their own creative response to his practice. Emerging from a one day symposium organised by Professor Peter Billingham at the University of Winchester, UK, to celebrate Cohen’s 80th birthday, this Festschrift collection represents a uniquely stimulating, insightful and provocative discussion of the songs and poems of Leonard Cohen, combining academic rigour with serious engagement with this remarkable poet and singer-songwriter. In the wake of the tragic news of Cohen’s passing in late 2016, with a legacy of iconic favourites such as “Suzanne” and “Bird on the Wire” through to more recent worldwide successes such as “Hallelujah” and “Anthem”, this book is a must-read for cultural studies scholars and Cohen aficionados alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : UOM:39015023713798

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The New York Times Film Reviews by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Film adaptations
ISBN : UOM:39015051785478

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Post Script by Anonim Pdf

Essays in film and the humanities.

Author : Bert Cardullo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Film criticism
ISBN : IND:30000067928022

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Practical Film Criticism by Bert Cardullo Pdf

The two volumes of "Practical Film Criticism" are an attempt to grapple with the nature of film art through the evaluation of vital and representative instances of that art, created throughout the world, from 1993 to 1998. The essays contained herein are acts of analysis and interpretation, they are neither windy theoretical musings nor impenetrable scholarly tracts. In addition, there are two translations of visionary articles by prominent international directors; an extended interview with an esteemed American movie critic, a speculative piece on the relationships among theatre, fiction and film; an overview of the careers of the Vittorio De Sica and Woody Allen; and a long, polemical introduction.

Author : David L. Pike
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442698321

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Canadian Cinema Since the 1980s by David L. Pike Pdf

Award-winning author David L. Pike offers a unique focus on the crucial quarter-century in Canadian filmmaking when the industry became a viable force on the international stage. Pike provides a lively, personal, and accessible history of the most influential filmmakers and movements of both Anglo-Canadian and Quebecois cinema, from popular movies to art film and everything in between. Along with in-depth studies of key directors, including David Cronenberg, Patricia Rozema and Denys Arcand, Jean-Claude Lauzon, Robert Lepage, Léa Pool, Atom Egoyan, and Guy Maddin, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s reflects on major themes and genres and explores the regional and cultural diversity of the period. Pike positions Canadian filmmaking at the frontlines of a profound cinematic transformation in the age of global media and presents fresh perspectives on both its local and international contexts. Making a significant advance in the study of the film industry of the period, Canadian Cinema since the 1980s is also an ideal text for students, researchers, and Canadian film enthusiasts.

Author : STEFAN DES LAURIERS
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781387906246

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SYMPHONY IN A FLAT TIRE: THE SLIGHTLY EMBELLISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY by STEFAN DES LAURIERS Pdf

I recall seeing a snake that had been run over by a car in front of my grandmother's house. The tires had sliced the snake in half, so that a toad that had just been swallowed could hop out. ""Escaping the belly of a beast sure makes an old toad laugh."".