A study of Georges Melies, who directed, edited, produced, designed and starred in over 500 films between 1896 and 1912. Elizabeth Ezra explodes several myths about Melies's role in film history and locates the roots of modern narrative cinema in Melies's work. schovat popis
France between the two World Wars was pervaded by representations of its own colonial power, expressed forcefully in the human displays at the expositions coloniales, films starring Josephine Baker, and the short stories of Paul Morand, and... schovat popis
BLURB STILL TO BE CHECKED Ruby McCracken's life is OVER. Her parents have lost their jobs, they've forced her to move to the Ordinary World and worst of all, she's lost her magic. A witch without magic? That's LITERALLY tragic. She won't be able to chat to her friends about the Hex Factor any more. And she's absolutely STARVING because her snack spell won't work. Also how can she get revenge on the mean girls at her boring new school without a good curse? Ruby is desperate to get her magic back and find a way home. Then one day she receives a mysterious hext that seems to offer an answer, but can she solve the riddle? More importantly, who would be sending a magical hext in this dreary ordinary world? This is a bright and lively magical debut which won the Kelpies Prize for new Scottish writing for children in 2016.