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Encourages academic success by guiding students through the steps of an academic presentation

Provides diverse global perspectives from seasoned scholars and teachers on systematically evaluating quality writing

Gathers pivotal and more mundane moments, dispersed across a predominantly Western history of moving images, in which animals materialize in movies and TV shows, from iconic scenes of cattle slaughter in early Soviet montage to quandaries over hunting trophies in recent home-renovation reality TV series, to animals in Black horror films.

In the 1960s, Suzuki Seijun met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s.

Challenging the widely accepted idea that Broadway was the white-hot creative engine of US theatre during the early 20th century, Katie Johnson reveals a far more complex system of exchanges between the Broadway establishment and a vibrant Black theatre scene in New York and beyond to chart a new history of American and transnational theatre.

The idea of teaching writing through genres - rather than through prescriptive forms, templates, and rhetorical modes - is intuitively appealing. Yet many teachers have questions. This book tackles some of the most common questions that teachers, teacher educators, and administrators may have when moving toward a genre-based teaching approach.