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7.Castrillo-Echart
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Dadun, University of Navarra Pablo Castrillo Towards a narrative definition of [email protected] PhD Candidate and Lecturer. the American political thriller film University of Navarra. Spain. Pablo Echart Abstract [email protected] Senior Lecturer in The Hollywood political thriller is a film genre of unique Screenwriting. University of relevance in the United States, often acting as a reflection of the Navarra. Spain. fears and anxieties of its historical times. At the same time, however, the definition of its identity and boundaries still leaves Submitted room for further specification, perhaps due to the frequent June 4, 2015 consideration of the political thriller as part of the broader Approved September 30, 2015 categories of either thriller narratives or political films. By revising the available literature and filmography and analyzing the narrative features of the classical political thriller, this © 2015 Communication & Society article proposes a deeper definition of the genre that takes into ISSN 0214-0039 account the nature of the broader ‘thriller’ category of films E ISSN 2386-7876 springing from a specific mode of crime fiction that focuses on a doi: 10.15581/003.28.4. 109-123 www.communication-society.com victim or threatened individual as its protagonist, depicts and conveys intense emotional states, portrays an unbalanced and highly existentialist worldview, and travels into the 2015 – Vol. 28(4), pp. 109-123 extraordinary while at the same time holding on to very concrete expectations of verisimilitude. The political thriller How to cite this article: specifies this broader form of narration and links it to dramatic Castrillo, P. -
Season's Readings: Naughty Or Nice?
R E S O U R C E S • S E R V I C E S • E V E N T S D E C E M B E R 2 0 0 7 Season’s Readings: Naughty or Nice? Looking for a meaningful gift for that someone special in your life? Having a hard time finding the perfect present for the person who has everything? The Library has the solution for you! Books make meaningful gifts that entertain long after the holiday season is over! Members of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library staff have compiled a great list of books, music CDs, and movies to make this holiday season one of the greatest yet. From tales of heart-warming, abiding love, to your favorite holiday recipes, the following selections are sure to please, whether you like them “Naughty or Nice”! Naughty List Nice List • Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris • Good People All: A Celtic Yuletide Tradition – CD by Magical Strings • Holiday Heart – DVD • Christmas in Connecticut – DVD • 12 Yats of Christmas – CD by Benny Grunch & Bunch • The Attic Christmas by B.G. Hennessy • Elf – DVD • A Dozen Silk Diapers by Melissa Kajpust • Hogfather by Terry Pratchett • The Wool Cap – DVD • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – DVD • Christmas Letters by Debbie Macomber • Bad Santa – DVD • The Littlest Angel by Charles Tazewell • Santa Baby – CD by Eartha Kitt • Miracle and Other Christmas Stories by Connie Willis • Love Actually – DVD • A Christmas in Wales • The Stupidest Angel, a by Dylan Thomas Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore • The Homecoming – DVD • How the Grinch Stole Christmas • Betty Crocker Christmas Cookbook by -
PDF of the Princess Bride
THE PRINCESS BRIDE S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure The 'good parts' version abridged by WILLIAM GOLDMAN one two three four five six seven eight map For Hiram Haydn THE PRINCESS BRIDE This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. How is such a thing possible? I'll do my best to explain. As a child, I had simply no interest in books. I hated reading, I was very bad at it, and besides, how could you take the time to read when there were games that shrieked for playing? Basketball, baseball, marbles—I could never get enough. I wasn't even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and I could invent last-second triumphs that would bring tears to your eyes. School was torture. Miss Roginski, who was my teacher for the third through fifth grades, would have meeting after meeting with my mother. "I don't feel Billy is perhaps extending himself quite as much as he might." Or, "When we test him, Billy does really exceptionally well, considering his class standing." Or, most often, "I don't know, Mrs. Goldman; what are we going to do about Billy?" What are we going to do about Billy? That was the phrase that haunted me those first ten years. I pretended not to care, but secretly I was petrified. Everyone and everything was passing me by. I had no real friends, no single person who shared an equal interest in all games. -
Understanding Screenwriting'
Course Materials for 'Understanding Screenwriting' FA/FILM 4501 12.0 Fall and Winter Terms 2002-2003 Evan Wm. Cameron Professor Emeritus Senior Scholar in Screenwriting Graduate Programmes, Film & Video and Philosophy York University [Overview, Outline, Readings and Guidelines (for students) with the Schedule of Lectures and Screenings (for private use of EWC) for an extraordinary double-weighted full- year course for advanced students of screenwriting, meeting for six hours weekly with each term of work constituting a full six-credit course, that the author was permitted to teach with the Graduate Programme of the Department of Film and Video, York University during the academic years 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 – the most enlightening experience with respect to designing movies that he was ever permitted to share with students.] Overview for Graduate Students [Preliminary Announcement of Course] Understanding Screenwriting FA/FILM 4501 12.0 Fall and Winter Terms 2002-2003 FA/FILM 4501 A 6.0 & FA/FILM 4501 B 6.0 Understanding Screenwriting: the Studio and Post-Studio Eras Fall/Winter, 2002-2003 Tuesdays & Thursdays, Room 108 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Evan William Cameron We shall retrace within these courses the historical 'devolution' of screenwriting, as Robert Towne described it, providing advanced students of writing with the uncommon opportunity to deepen their understanding of the prior achievement of other writers, and to ponder without illusion the nature of the extraordinary task that lies before them should they decide to devote a part of their life to pursuing it. During the fall term we shall examine how a dozen or so writers wrote within the studio system before it collapsed in the late 1950s, including a sustained look at the work of Preston Sturges. -
Stories in Support of Education
en doors Open books - Op 20-26 April 2009 Nelson Mandela F Queen Rania Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie F Paulo Coelho Ishmael Beah F Devli Kumari Dakota Blue Richards F Michael Morpurgo Rowan Williams F Beverley Naidoo Desmond Tutu F Alice Walker Natalie Portman F Angélique Kidjo Mary Robinson Stories in support of education This storybook was created by the Global Campaign for Education. A compilation of short stories from influential figures around the world, The Big Read tells remarkable tales of education and the struggles of those who are denied the chance to learn. By reading this book and then writing your name at the end, you can help everyone have the chance of an education. www.campaignforeducation.org/bigread How you can be part of the Big Read: 1. Read or listen to a story from this book 2. Write your name on the last page 3. Send the message on the last page to your government 4. Let us know you have taken part (either online or using the back of this book) You are taking part in the Big Read with people from all over the world. This book is being distributed in more than 100 countries. This same book can be read online or downloaded from our website. Sign up here to receive updates on the Big Read around the world: www.campaignforeducation.org/bigread The Big Read events are happening throughout the Global Campaign for Education’s Action Week, 20th - 26th April 2009. All your names will be added to this book and delivered to world leaders and the United Nations. -
Cheltlf12 Brochure
SponSorS & SupporterS Title sponsor In association with Broadcast Partner Principal supporters Global Banking Partner Major supporters Radio Partner Festival Partners Official Wine Working in partnership Official Cider 2 The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival dIREctor Festival Assistant Jane Furze Hannah Evans Artistic dIREctor Festival INTERNS Sarah Smyth Lizzie Atkinson, Jen Liggins BOOK IT! dIREctor development dIREctor Jane Churchill Suzy Hillier Festival Managers development OFFIcER Charles Haynes, Nicola Tuxworth Claire Coleman Festival Co-ORdinator development OFFIcER Rose Stuart Alison West Welcome what words will you use to describe your festival experience? Whether it’s Jazz, Science, Music or Literature, a Cheltenham Festival experience can be intellectually challenging, educational, fun, surprising, frustrating, shocking, transformational, inspiring, comical, beautiful, odd, even life-changing. And this year’s The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival is no different. As you will see when you browse this brochure, the Festival promises Contents 10 days of discussion, debate and interview, plus lots of new ways to experience and engage with words and ideas. It’s a true celebration of 2012 NEWS 3 - 9 the power of the word - with old friends, new writers, commentators, What’s happening at this year’s Festival celebrities, sports people and scientists, and from children’s authors, illustrators, comedians and politicians to leading opinion-formers. FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 10 - 89 Your day by day guide to events I can’t praise the team enough for their exceptional dedication and flair in BOOK IT! 91 - 101 curating this year’s inspiring programme. However, there would be no Festival Our Festival for families and without the wonderful enthusiasm of our partners and loyal audiences and we young readers are extremely grateful for all the support we receive. -
The Big Read 2020 Guided by Whs 8 Conditions of Student Success
THE BIG READ 2020 GUIDED BY WHS 8 CONDITIONS OF STUDENT SUCCESS Wildcats, Get Ready for The WHS Big Read! Coming to Tutorial on August 24, 2020 All WHS students are expected to read at least one 150+-page book of their choice over the summer. As we are in an eventful election year, students may want to select a book related to current politics or government, but all genres and topics are welcome. We recommend parents assist students in making a suitable selection. More suggestions and assistance can be found: From the librarians at our WHS library or at your local public library From #Wildcats Reads! Recommendations from friends & classmates @wildcatspirit And for social/government/politics titles, in this WHS Politics & Government Top Picks list Have a suggestion to recommend? Nominate your favorite read @WildcatSpirit #WHS Reads For free access to electronic books, visit www.plsinfo.org. Download the “Libby” app. WHY THE BIG READ? Goals & Rationale: • To advance literacy & academic performance and prevent “summer slide” • To foster a love of reading through self-selection of books of interest • To build community through reflection and discussion of ourselves, the WHS conditions, and the world Enrolled in an AS or AP English Class? You may use one of the required summer reading books or any book of your choice for The WHS Big Read. AS English I: • Born A Crime by Trevor Noah or It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime – Stories from South Africa (2013 Young Adult version) • Short Story Packet (print from WHS website; limited copies in WHS guidance -
3. Groundhog Day (1993) 4. Airplane! (1980) 5. Tootsie
1. ANNIE HALL (1977) 11. THIS IS SPINAL Tap (1984) Written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman Written by Christopher Guest & Michael McKean & Rob Reiner & Harry Shearer 2. SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959) Screenplay by Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond, Based on the 12. THE PRODUCERS (1967) German film Fanfare of Love by Robert Thoeren and M. Logan Written by Mel Brooks 3. GROUNDHOG DaY (1993) 13. THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998) Screenplay by Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, Written by Ethan Coen & Joel Coen Story by Danny Rubin 14. GHOSTBUSTERS (1984) 4. AIRplaNE! (1980) Written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis Written by James Abrahams & David Zucker & Jerry Zucker 15. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY... (1989) 5. TOOTSIE (1982) Written by Nora Ephron Screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal, Story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart 16. BRIDESMAIDS (2011) Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig 6. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) Screenplay by Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, Screen Story by 17. DUCK SOUP (1933) Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks, Based on Characters in the Novel Story by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, Additional Dialogue by Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin 7. DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP 18. There’s SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (1998) WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) Screenplay by John J. Strauss & Ed Decter and Peter Farrelly & Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Peter George and Bobby Farrelly, Story by Ed Decter & John J. Strauss Terry Southern 19. THE JERK (1979) 8. BlaZING SADDLES (1974) Screenplay by Steve Martin, Carl Gottlieb, Michael Elias, Screenplay by Mel Brooks, Norman Steinberg Story by Steve Martin & Carl Gottlieb Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Alan Uger, Story by Andrew Bergman 20. -
ACF Regionals 2020 Packet O by the Editors Edited by Jinah Kim, Jordan
ACF Regionals 2020 Packet O by the Editors Edited by JinAh Kim, Jordan Brownstein, Geoffrey Chen, Taylor Harvey, Wonyoung Jang, Nick Jensen, Dennis Loo, Nitin Rao, and Neil Vinjamuri, with contributions from Billy Busse, Ophir Lifshitz, Tejas Raje, and Ryan Rosenberg Tossups 1. Voters in this state wrote “No Dams” on their ballot paper as part of a campaign to block the construction of the Franklin Dam. The flooding of this state’s Lake Pedder led to the formation of a “United Group” named for this state that became the world’s first green party. George Augustus Robinson arrived in this colony to “conciliate” a conflict between colonists and an indigenous group whose last surviving member was Truganini. This colony’s governor George Arthur ordered the formation of a human cordon to round up its indigenous inhabitants. John Howard instituted a mandatory buyback policy on long guns after 35 people died in this state’s Port Arthur Massacre. For 10 points, the Black War exterminated the aboriginal inhabitants of what Australian island? ANSWER: Tasmania <European History> 2. Schlenk and Brauns name a group of these molecules that exist as biradicals and are paramagnetic with a triplet ground state. The F number is correlated to the log of the retention factor in chromatography of these molecules. Clar’s rule is used to determine the most stable forms of these molecules. A process in which these molecules are broken down uses a system consisting of an alumina matrix, a silica binder, a kaolin filler, and a zeolite catalyst; that process is fluid catalytic cracking. -
Honour List 2018 © International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), 2018
HONOUR LIST 2018 © International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), 2018 IBBY Secretariat Nonnenweg 12, Postfach CH-4009 Basel, Switzerland Tel. [int. +4161] 272 29 17 Fax [int. +4161] 272 27 57 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ibby.org Book selection and documentation: IBBY National Sections Editors: Susan Dewhirst, Liz Page and Luzmaria Stauffenegger Design and Cover: Vischer Vettiger Hartmann, Basel Lithography: VVH, Basel Printing: China Children’s Press and Publication Group (CCPPG) Cover illustration: Motifs from nominated books (Nos. 16, 36, 54, 57, 73, 77, 81, 86, 102, www.ijb.de 104, 108, 109, 125 ) We wish to kindly thank the International Youth Library, Munich for their help with the Bibliographic data and subject headings, and the China Children’s Press and Publication Group for their generous sponsoring of the printing of this catalogue. IBBY Honour List 2018 IBBY Honour List 2018 The IBBY Honour List is a biennial selection of This activity is one of the most effective ways of We use standard British English for the spelling outstanding, recently published children’s books, furthering IBBY’s objective of encouraging inter- foreign names of people and places. Furthermore, honouring writers, illustrators and translators national understanding and cooperation through we have respected the way in which the nomi- from IBBY member countries. children’s literature. nees themselves spell their names in Latin letters. As a general rule, we have written published The 2018 Honour List comprises 191 nomina- An IBBY Honour List has been published every book titles in italics and, whenever possible, tions in 50 different languages from 61 countries. -
Catalogo E-Book
GIALLO-THRILLER - AA. VV., I detective dell’impossibile - Isabel Allende, Il gioco di Ripper - David Baldacci, Sotto tiro - Andrea Camilleri , Il corso delle cose - Andrea Camilleri , La forma dell’acqua - Lee Child, Niente da perdere - Agatha Christie , CATALOGO Sento i pollici che prudono E-BOOK - Benedetta Cibrario , Sotto cieli noncuranti DISPONIBILI - Patricia Cornwell, Polvere PER IL PRESTITO - Arthur Conan Doyle , Il ritorno di Sherlock Holmes - Alessia Gazzola , L’allieva - Anne Holt, La vendetta - Arnaldur Indridason , SI RINGRAZIA Un caso archiviato IL CENTRO SERVIZI AUSER - Camilla Lackberg , La sirena DI CAMPAGNOLA EMILIA - Jo Nesbø, Polizia PER IL CONTRIBUTO OFFERTO - Anne Perry , In un vicolo cieco PER L’ACQUISTO DEGLI E-BOOK - Ellery Queen , Un paio di scarpe PRESENTI IN QUESTO CATALOGO Pagina 2 - James Rollins , L’occhio dell’inferno - Vanessa Diffenbaugh, - Giorgio Scerbanenco, Il linguaggio segreto dei fiori I milanesi ammazzano al sabato Fannie Flagg, - Georges Simenon , Miss Alabama e la casa dei sogni Maigret e i testimoni recalcitranti - Jamie Ford, Come un fiore ribelle - Georges Simenon , - Jamie Ford, Il gusto proibito dello zenzero Maigret perde le staffe - Jessica Jiji , I diamanti sono i migliori amici - Marco Vichi , La forza del destino delle donne - Dorn Wulf, La psichiatra - Liala , Una notte a Castelguelfo DAL LIBRO AL FILM - Debbie Macomber, Primavera a Rose Harbor - Alexander McCall Smith , Amori in viaggio - Jonathan Foer , - Jamie McGuire , Uno splendido disastro Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino -
Coming to Terms with the Past and Searching for an Identity: the Treatment of the Occupied Netherlands 179 Brother Alqng with Qther Hqstages
178 JOHN MICHIELSEN, BROCK UNIVERSITY i • I ; Coming to Terms With the Past and Searching for an Identity: II The Treatment of The Occupied Netherlands in the Fi<;tion of Hermans, Mulisch and Vestdijk / The popularity of Harry Mulisch's De had been somewhere else at a certain time aanslag, which was published in September things would have worked out differently. 1982, shows the constant interest that the This is especially the case in De aanslag and Dutch have had in literature dealing with the De donkere kamer. Pastorale 1943 concerns occupation of the Netherlands during World itself less with this question, perhaps because War Two. Simon Vestdijk's Pastorale 1943, it was written during and immediately after published in 1946, and Willem Frederik the occupation and its author's stay in prison. Hermans' De donkere kamer van Damokles of Vestdijk wished to render a vivid and realistic 1958 also deal with the same period. The three description of the lives of those who novels are interesting as a picture of the time; collaborated with the Germans, those who they concern themselves in part with the role worked for the underground, and those who of the resistance during the occupation and were hiding from the Germans. Even here, also the relationship between the occupied however, chance plays a role in what happens Dutch and the enemy. Naturally, the question to the characters. of guilt, both of the Germans and their collaborators the Dutch Nazis, arises in this As far as the structure of the novels is context. The three novels also present the concerned, De aanslag and De donkere kamer thesis that groups working against the enemy are the more complex novels of the three and were composed of bungling dilettantes, they are also the richest in symbols.