Product Description: This collection of essays addresses the question of lucidity as a thematic in literature and film but also as a quality of both expression and insight in literary criticism and critical thought more generally. The essays offer treatments of lucidity in itself and in relation to its opposites, forms of obscurity and darkness...read more

Product Description: At the outset of 2012 – the United Nations’ International Year of Sustainable Energy for All – access to modern energy services remains low or non-existent for approximately 2.8 billion of the world’s population. Energy practitioners worldwide are facing the challenge of delivering access to modern energy services where poverty and lack of infrastructure makes it most difficult...read more

Product Description: Alain Resnais, director of 'Hiroshima mon amour' (1959) and 'L'Annee derniere a Marienbad' (1961), has transformed the representation of memory, fantasy and desire in modern cinema. This illuminating introduction to his work, extending from his earliest documentaries to the musical films of the last decade, traces the evolving patterns of his filmmaking, its changing reflections on mortality, guilt, chance and human doubt...read more

Product Description: The films of Canadian-Armenian director Atom Egoyan immerse the viewer in a world of lush sensuality, melancholia, and brooding obsession. From his earliest films Next of Kin and Family Viewing, to his coruscating Exotica and recent projects such as Where the Truth Lies, Egoyan has paid infinite attention to narrative intricacy and psychological complexity...read more

Product Description: Photographs of missing children are some of the most haunting images of contemporary Western society. The specter of the child at risk from abduction, abuse, or illness, conjures questions about traumatic loss, protection and the family, nostalgia and childhood innocence...read more

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Product Description: French Cinema Since 1950 brings together modern scholarship of the most widely viewed and studied works of the period including classic films such as Truffaut's "The 400 Blows", Resnais' "Hiroshima Mon Amour", and works by Godard as well as critical previews of some of the most recent French films up to 1998...read more