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“sue aitken”

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  • Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice

    Edited by Sue Aitken ...
    Using Film to Understand Childhood and Practice is an innovative and lively text which allows complex and challenging issues within childhood studies to be explored using the medium of filmed drama. By utilising popular culture, this book provides accessible narratives to students and lecturers needing to engage with complex theoretical ideas. In exposing theories to tangible situations often from ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

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    Imagination and Childhood

    by Ellen Handler Spitz ...
    In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences.Through delightful anecdotes about real children and their treasures, bedrooms, play spaces, music, scary things, and birthday parties, The Brightening Glance will inspire you to create a life of wonder, inventiveness, ... Read more

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  • Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton (Foreword by Tim Burton)

    by Tim Lammers ...
    Throughout his career, movie journalist Tim Lammers has talked with director Tim Burton and the key players who helped bring the stop-motion films The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, and Frankenweenie to life.Now for the first time, Lammers has assembled the stories from Burton and his band of creatives all in one place. In Direct Conversations: The Animated Films of Tim Burton, you will ... Read more

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  • William Haggar

    Fairground Film Maker

    by Peter Yorke ...
    Biography of William Haggar, a pioneer of the cinema.Written by Haggar's great-grandson, the book draws on oral reminiscences, unpublished family memoirs and contemporary press reports. It tells the rags-to-riches story of a travelling theatrical who became one of Britain's select band of pioneer film-makers. Containing information on Victorian portable theatres, fairground bioscope shows and ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Terrence Malick

    Rehearsing the Unexpected

    by Daniele Villa ...
    Terrence Malick's debut film, Badlands, announced the arrival of a unique talent. In the 40 years since that debut, Malick has only made 5 films, but they are distinctive in their beauty.This book is not meant to be a biography of Terrence Malick. The purpose behind the book is to introduce readers to the extraordinary universe of his film-making and to aid them in understanding his work. And to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Game of Thrones: In Memoriam

    by Running Press ...
    A tribute to some of the most memorable characters that have died during the course of the first four seasons of Game of Thrones.The book includes quotes, brief character profiles, and is fully illustrated with series photography throughout. ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • American Child Bride

    A History of Minors and Marriage in the United States

    by Nicholas L. Syrett ...
    Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in his sweeping and sometimes shocking history of youthful marriage in America. Focusing on young women and girls — the most common underage spouses — Syrett tracks the marital history of American minors from the colonial ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Dreaming of Cinema

    Spectatorship, Surrealism, and the Age of Digital Media

    by Adam Lowenstein ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Video games, YouTube channels, Blu-ray discs, and other forms of "new" media have made theatrical cinema seem "old." A sense of "cinema lost" has accompanied the ascent of digital media, and many worry film's capacity to record the real is fundamentally changing. Yet the Surrealist movement never treated cinema as a realist medium and understood our perceptions of the real itself to be a mirage. ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Children's Literature and New York City

    Edited by Padraic Whyte, Keith O'Sullivan ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    This collection explores the significance of New York City in children’s literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writing for young people from the twentieth century to the present day. Contextualized in light of contemporary critical and cultural theory, the chapters examine the varying ways in which children’s literature has engaged with New York City as a city space ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Feeding the Future

    School Lunch Programs as Global Social Policy

    by Jennifer Geist Rutledge ...
    A century ago, only local charities existed to feed children. Today 368 million children receive school lunches in 151 countries, in programs supported by state and national governments. In Feeding the Future, Jennifer Geist Rutledge investigates how and why states have assumed responsibility for feeding children, chronicling the origins and spread of school lunch programs around the world, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Childhood, Youth and Migration

    Connecting Global and Local Perspectives

    Edited by Christine Hunner-Kreisel, Sabine Bohne ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book shows the different ways in which migration matters in the context of global and local childhood and youth. Furthermore, it highlights that childhood, youth and migration as well as local and global perspectives need to be thought and analyzed together, to address the significant dimensions of social inequality in the context of growing up.Migration as a phenomenon is most often ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Handbook for Monitoring and Evaluation of Child Labour in Agriculture

    by FAOoftheUN ...
    The Handbook offers guidance and tools for assessing the impacts of agricultural and food security programmes and projects on child labour in family-based agriculture. In addition, the Handbook aims to sensitize agricultural programme staff on the importance of incorporating child labour prevention as a crosscutting issue in their planning, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system and of ... Read more

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