Examines literary texts from various genres
- prose fiction, plays, film
- in order to explore the way dark & enlightening

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Tahirih is a young, uneducated, but highly curious woman living in late-nineteenth-century Persia where 90 per cent of the population is illiterate. She desperately wants to learn to read but is forbidden by her husband to do so. This novel tells her story
- as a wife, mother, daughter, friend, but most importantly as herself.
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The story of events of a single night in a small European town during the 1920s. Woody Allen plays Kleinman, a fearful little man who is woken up one night to participate in a mob search for a killer. On the edge of the same town the circus has just arrived & the series of incidents that occur affect not only Kleinman but all the townfolk. Allen's film is a homage to 1920's German Expressionism, shot in black & white by Carlo di Palma. ...

It is 1910 & the bloodstained body of an unknown woman is found in the grounds of Sir Henry Chetwynd's Shropshire estate. It is a murder that unveils dark shadows of the past, & has an unexpected impact on the lives of Sir Henry Chetwynd & his family. This is the story of love, war & intrigue. ...

Illuminates the 'reel' revolution that started in 1960 with director John Cassavetes' work. This book pays homage to the artistic, talented makers of magic, who began on the bottom of the dog-pile making biker flicks & nudie cuties & find themselves on top of the Hollywood heap. ...