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  • Boyz N the Hood

    Shifting Hollywood Terrain, Second Edition

    by Joi Carr ...
    In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young urban black males. Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain is an interdisciplinary examination of this iconic film. Beyond the two historic Academy Award nominations for Best Screenplay and Best ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Boyz N the Hood

    Shifting Hollywood Terrain

    by Joi Carr ...
    In 1991, Boyz N the Hood made history as an important film text and the impetus for a critical national conversation about American urban life in African American communities, especially for young urban black males. Boyz N the Hood: Shifting Hollywood Terrain is an interdisciplinary examination of this iconic film and its impact in cinematic history and American culture. This interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Encountering Texts

    The Multicultural Theatre Project and «Minority» Literature

    by Joi Carr, Priya Parmar, Shirley R. Steinberg ...
    Series Book 4 - Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides
    Encountering Texts represents the theory and praxis uncovered through an ongoing interdisciplinary arts-based critical pedagogy that engages students in critical self-reflection (disciplined, sustained thinking, requiring engagement) on difference. The Multicultural Theatre Project (MTP) is a dialogical encounter with literature through the dramatic arts. This book provides a blueprint for the ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • You Just Don't Understand

    Women and Men in Conversation

    by Deborah Tannen ...
    From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic on interpersonal relations draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words.Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words.Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • You Play the Girl

    On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

    by Carina Chocano ...
    N ational B ook C ritics C ircle A ward Winner . "With dazzling clarity, [Chocano's] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens."— O, The Oprah MagazineAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Now Write!

    Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers

    by Sherry Ellis ...
    Series series Now Write! Series
    A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more.What's the secret behind the successful and prolific careers of critically acclaimed novelists and short story writers Amy Bloom, ... Read more

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  • Hairspray

    by Dana Heller ...
    By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie.Represents the first scholarly work on any of film director John Waters' filmsIncorporates original interview material with the directorReveals meanings embedded in the film's narrative ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Writing Alone and with Others

    by Pat Schneider ...
    For more than a quarter of a century, Pat Schneider has helped writers find and liberate their true voices. She has taught all kinds--the award winning, the struggling, and those who have been silenced by poverty and hardship. Her innovative methods have worked in classrooms from elementary to graduate level, in jail cells and public housing projects, in convents and seminaries, in youth at-risk ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Hip Hop in American Cinema

    by Melvin Donalson ...
    Hip Hop in American Cinema examines the manner in which American feature films have served as the primary medium for mainstreaming hip hop culture into American society. With their glamorizing portrayals of graffiti writing, break dancing, rap music, clothing, and language, Hollywood movies have established hip hop as a desirable youth movement. This book demonstrates how Hollywood studios and ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Talking from 9 to 5

    Women and Men at Work

    by Deborah Tannen ...
    "Required reading…sharp and insightful…lively and straightforward…a novel and sometimes startling analysis of workplace dynamics."—New York Times Book ReviewIn her extraordinary international bestseller, You Just Don't Understand, Deborah Tannen transformed forever the way we look at intimate relationships between women and men. Now she turns her keen ear and observant eye toward the workplace ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Air & Light & Time & Space

    How Successful Academics Write

    by Helen Sword ...
    From the author of Stylish Academic Writing comes an essential new guide for writers aspiring to become more productive and take greater pleasure in their craft. Helen Sword interviewed one hundred academics worldwide about their writing background and practices. Relatively few were trained as writers, she found, and yet all have developed strategies to thrive in their publish-or-perish ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The 1990s Teen Horror Cycle

    Final Girls and a New Hollywood Formula

    by Alexandra West ...
    Many critics and fans refer to the 1990s as the decade that horror forgot, with few notable entries in the genre. Yet horror went mainstream in the '90s by speaking to the anxieties of American youth during one of the country's most prosperous eras.No longer were films made on low budgets and dependent on devotees for success. Horror found its way onto magazine covers, fashion ads and CD ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD