As her grandmother’s health declines, a young girl begins to lovingly take the lead in their cozy shared autumn traditions.

American Lola Laforet was swept away in a whirlwind wedding and found herself the chef/owner of the Hotel Riviera.

Throughout, this book continually reminds readers that both mainstream and independent films communicate, reinforce, and perpetuate culturally pervasive notions of "normalcy," "deviance," and "social otherness," in ways that frequently have ...

The essays collected in The Philosophy of Neo-Noir explore the philosophical implications of neo-noir touchstones such as Blade Runner, Chinatown, Reservoir Dogs, Memento, and the films of the Coen brothers.

Placing this body of work within relevant contexts ranging from gender and sexuality to censorship, modernism, art cinema, and the Southern Renaissance, Hollywood's Tennessee draws on rarely examined archival research to recast Williams's ...

. Sweeping from the turn of the century through the 1960’s, from the Orient to San Francisco and New York, Elizabeth Adler has written a magnificent novel of new wealth and old privilege, family passions and secret shame, of women ...

The core of this book however concerns the complex representationof masculinity in the noir tough' thriller, and where and how gender interlocks with questions of genre.

At the center of Wasted Morning is Vica Delca, a simple, poor woman in her seventies who has endured the endless series of trials and tribulations that was Romanian history from WWI to the end of the twentieth century.

If you're looking for a novel to take you away from it all...this is the one for you!" - Bookreporter.com on Hotel Riviera "Like Tuscany's beauty, this book is heaped with delicious words and literary creativity ...thoroughly engrossing.