Product Description: Designed to complement the original "Casebook" series, each "New Casebook" consists of a sequence of carefully chosen essays and extracts dealing with the central critical issues raised by the texts being studied, and which illustrate some of the more striking features of new critical thinking...read more

Product Description: Robert Altman is the most quintessentially American of contemporary directors. His films cut across virtually all genres--from Western (McCabe and Mrs. Miller) and science fiction (Quintet) to detective story (The Long Goodbye) and musical (Popeye)--offering us what Vincent Canby once called a "Gallery of American Portraits...read more

Product Description: In this concise and comprehensive study of feminist theatre in and the U.S., the author discusses the work of writers such as Pam Gems, Michelene Wandor, Caryl Churchill, Megan Terry and Ntozake Shange. She illustrates the connection between woman's theatre and social change in the 1960s and shows how women dramatists have been committed to collective, experimental and political theatre, at the same time as they have found commerical success...read more

Ordinary and famous American and Soviet citizens offer their memories of wartime, revealing simultaneous respect and distrust

Provides an intimate portrait of the twentieth-century American 'Reds' journalist, who became involved in the Chinese and Russian Revolutions and with such key personages as Trotsky and Mao

Product Description: Book by Keyssar, Helene