Opening Night


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"A first collection of theatre plays by Richard Mousseau. Plays are suitable for amateur and professional theatre groups. Sparse, or elaborate sets will enhance the plays. Some plays are adaptable to a radio play format. Range of acceptance is general public. All plays are generated from the aspect of the common person, and all audiences will be amused by the drama and comedy."--




Uncanny Histories in Film and Media


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Introduction: Uncanny histories / Patrice Petro -- Pt. 1. The disciplinary uncanny -- Film and media in the double take of history / Priya Jaikumar -- Haunted by the body: cleanliness in colonial Manila's film culture / Jasmine Trice -- Reimagining the history of media studies through games, play and the uncanny valley / Alenda Chang -- Pt. 2. Uncanny films -- Flickering lights and mischievous stars: the uncanny feminism of my twentieth century / Hanna Goodwin -- The sublime body under the sign of developmentalism: the Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Malaysian politics and global markets / Peter J. Bloom -- Uncanny histories of transnational cinematic receptions: Eisenstein in Cuba / Masha Salazkina -- Pt. 3. Uncanny figures -- Julia García Espinosa and the fight for a critical culture in Cuba / Cristina Venegas -- The case for (re)collecting Lotte Eisner's work / Naomi DeCelles -- A widow's work: archives and the construction of Russian film history / Maria N. Corrigan -- Fiendish devices: the uncanny history of Almena Davis / Ellen C. Scott.




Three Bedtime Stories


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Show Me Your Smile!


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Dora visits the dentist for a checkup. During her visit she explores the dentist's office, gets her teeth flossed and cleaned, and even has a cavity filled. Includes four Spanish words. Full color.




The Muckle Man


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THE STORY: Off the icy shores of Newfoundland, on a remote island, the Clarke family threatens to break apart. The father, Addison, a marine biologist, desperately pursues the ocean's most elusive creature--Architeuthis, the giant squid--while his es




The Life & Times of Timothy Penn


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MISSION AND JOURNEY Imagine if your feet could fit someone else shoes. Would you take a chance at putting them on? Would you tie the shoestrings or tuck them into your shoe? Would you wear socks or walk barefoot in those shoes? Now, would you walk around in circles, walk backwards, or walk forward? Would you be consistent or always random? If life were a journey, would you take it one step at a time, or one day at a time? Consider your footprint. Where would it lead to? What would happen if someone held your hand along the way? Would you continue holding onto theirs or simply let go?...




The End, And Then?


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[440 pp / 6"x9"]Song in the Top 40, dating a supermodel, Brian Bryant, high school biology teacher, was at the top of his game ... and then the End of the World arrives.Through a bureaucratic error he is assigned as a part time gardener for the next thousand years. With a massive invasion fleet hovering inorbit, and a madman on the Moon about to destroy all life on Earth, Brian finds that in order to save humanity he needs to enlist the aid of a pair of bumbling alien scouts ... who happen to resemble mice.The second major fictional work by author Douglas Alan, "The End, And Then?" is packed with delightful surprises, hilarious non-stop action, and will leave you wondering just what in heck is going to happen next.




An Octoroon


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Judge Peyton is dead and his plantation Terrebonne is in financial ruins. Peyton’s handsome nephew George arrives as heir apparent and quickly falls in love with Zoe, a beautiful octoroon. But the evil overseer M’Closky has other plans—for both Terrebonne and Zoe. In 1859, a famous Irishman wrote this play about slavery in America. Now an American tries to write his own.




The 'Evil Child' in Literature, Film and Popular Culture


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The 'evil child' has infiltrated the cultural imagination, taking on prominent roles in popular films, television shows and literature. This collection of essays from a global range of scholars examines a fascinating array of evil children and the cultural work that they perform, drawing upon sociohistorical, cinematic, and psychological approaches. The chapters explore a wide range of characters including Tom Riddle in the Harry Potter series, the possessed Regan in William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, the monstrous Ben in Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child, the hostile fetuses of Rosemary’s Baby and Alien, and even the tiny terrors featured in the reality television series Supernanny. Contributors also analyse various themes and issues within film, literature and popular culture including ethics, representations of evil and critiques of society. This book was originally published as two special issues of Literature Interpretation Theory.




Moving Pictures


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