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  • Beyond Bagpuss

    A History of Smallfilms Animation Studio

    by Chris Pallant ...
    Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, Pingwings, Pogles Wood, Clangers, and Bagpuss - the iconic animations produced by the Canterbury-based Smallfilms studio between 1958 and 1984 - constitute a significant thread of British cultural history. The lasting appeal of the imagined worlds created by Smallfilms is evident in the highly-successful BBC reboot of Clangers (2015-present), which has introduced a ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Demystifying Disney

    A History of Disney Feature Animation

    by Chris Pallant ...
    Demystifying Disney: A History of Disney Feature Animation provides a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date examination of the Disney studio's evolution through its animated films. In addition to challenging certain misconceptions concerning the studio's development, the study also brings scholarly definition to hitherto neglected aspects of contemporary Disney.Through a combination of economic, ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Storyboarding

    A Critical History

    by Steven Price, Chris Pallant ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting
    This study provides the first book-length critical history of storyboarding, from the birth of cinema to the present day and beyond. It discusses the role of storyboarding in key films including Gone with the Wind , Psycho and The Empire Strikes Back , and is illustrated with a wide range of images. ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Animated Landscapes

    History, Form and Function

    Edited by Chris Pallant ...
    Winner of the 2017 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on the Subject of AnimationStudying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French New Wave without Paris. But the focus on live-action cinema leaves a significant gap in studying animated films. With the almost total pervasiveness of animation today, this collection provides the reader ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

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  • Get Started In Creative Writing: Teach Yourself

    by Stephen May ...
    Get Started in Creative Writing is an indispensible guide to unlocking your creativity, finding your voice and choosing a genre of writing that suits you best, whether fiction or non-fiction, short stories or novels, children's books or travel writing. It features guidelines for do's and don'ts along with suggestions for crafting a distinctive style.With tips from some of the best-known writers of ... Read more

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  • Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction

    by Emma Darwin ...
    Do you have a compelling vision for a story set in the past? Are you inspired by novelists such as Alan Furst and Philippa Gregory? Get Started in Writing Historical Fiction is designed for anyone who wants to write in this exciting and wide-ranging genre of fiction, whatever your favorite style and era.Designed to build your confidence and help fire up creativity, this book is an essential guide ... Read more

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  • Armchair Nation

    An intimate history of Britain in front of the TV

    by Joe Moran ...
    But what does your furniture point at?' asks the character Joey in the sitcom Friends on hearing an acquaintance has no TV. It's a good question: since its beginnings during WW2, television has assumed a central role in our houses and our lives, just as satellite dishes and aerials have become features of urban skylines. Television (or 'the idiot's lantern', depending on your feelings about it) ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

    Edited by David Morley, Philip Neilsen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative ... Read more

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  • How to Write

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    The Guardian's 2008 'How to Write' supplements were a huge success with wordsmiths of all stripes. Covering fiction, poetry, comedy, screenwriting, biography and journalism, they offered invaluable advice and bags of encouragement from a range of leading professionals, including Catherine Tate on writing memorable comedy characters, Robert Harris on penning bestelling fiction and Michael Rosen on ... Read more

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    by Jenn Ashworth, Tom Bromley, Sarah Butler, AJ Dalton, Stella Duffy, Kerry Hudson, Toby Litt, Livi Michael, James Miller, Alison Moore, Mark Morris, Leone Ross, Graeme Shimmin, Nikesh Shukla, Joe Stretch, Alice Thompson, Will Wiles ...
    Series series Salt Guides for Readers and Writers
    How do you write a novel?Practising novelists and teachers of creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to characterisation, surrealism to historical fiction, via perspective, plot twists and avoiding being boring, among many others.This book is forcreative writing studentswriters and readers of novelsteachers of creative ... Read more

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  • Margaret Mahy: A Writer's Life

    by Tessa Duder ...
    A literary portrait of New Zealand's best-loved children's authorMargaret Mahy's death on 23 July 2012 brought forth an unprecedented outpouring of grief and heartfelt tributes from around New Zealand and the world. Her passing at 76 was breaking news in the media, unstoppable through the social networks, noted by political leaders in Parliament and by children in classrooms throughout the country ... Read more

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