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Ditch Life
Two ditch dwelling degenerates and a dog are the protagonists of this dark comedy from acclaimed filmmaker and animator Amy Lockhart. Body horror, celebrity obsession, and wealth disparity collide in this satirical romp about an aspiring plastic surgeon to the stars who is forced to live in a shapeshifting, maggot-infested pizza box.
Dirty Dishes
Feminist art from the trailer park. Dirty Dishes is a first-class ticket into the creepy, cute, and totally absurd world of StrawBaby and the mind of its creator, Amy Lockhart. It chronicles the various facets of her process/thinking, from her paintings and drawings to cardboard sculptures of objects from her everyday life. Also included are stills from her animations and photographs of costumes used in her videos. Lockhart works in a variety of mediums, including animation, film and video, acrylic painting, drawing, costumes, comics, and small-press books, and she combines the various mediums as much as possible and lets them feed into and out of one another.
Grey
From Judy MacDonald comes a startling collection of short stories. Grey is a baby. Grey is a bad date. Grey battles a tornado, flies past giant monkeys and pauses to watch an old woman with her lists. These stories toy fact and fiction, autobiography and invention, memory and make believe. Grey proves that a misunderstood colour can be far from dull. Read about a girl falling in love with a giraffe. Learn about one boy's breastfeeding scenarios. Observe several kinds of relationship and join the author for an afterlife visit with Stanley Kubrick...
The Traitor
It is 1943. British SOE agent Captain John Lockhart is in Crete, fighting with the Resistance. Captured by the Germans, Lockhart faces a stark choice, between death and betrayal of his country. Concealing his true motives, Lockhart makes a bargain: in return for the life of his imprisoned wife, he will work with the Germans. When his mission is revealed, Lockhart is stunned. He is to lead a unit of the Waffen SS made up of British fascists and renegades culled from POW camps: the British Free Corps, Lockhart takes command, but he has an audacious plan to free his wife and other innocent victims of the war - whatever the personal cost.
The Crafty Animator
This collection is a study of the value of craft as it can be understood within the study and practice of animation. The book reconsiders the position of craft, which is often understood as inferior to ‘art’, with a particular focus on questions of labour in animation production and gendered practices. The notion of craft has been widely investigated in a number of areas including art, design and textiles, but despite the fact that a wide range of animators use craft-based techniques, the value of craft has not been interrogated in this context until now. Seeking to address such a gap in the literature, this collection considers the concept of craft through a range of varying case studies. Chapters include studies on experimental animation, computer animation, trauma and memory, children’s animation and silhouette animation among others. The Crafty Animator also goes some way to exploring the relationship craft has with the digital in the context of animation production. Through these varied discussions, this book problematizes simplistic notions about the value of certain methods and techniques, working to create a dialogue between craft and animation.
The Art of Discussion-Based Teaching
Opening Up the Conversation leads practicing and preservice K-12 teachers through the process of creating more open, student-centered discourse in their classrooms. Readers are first introduced to types of teacher questions, student responses, and teacher follow-up moves that are associated with both open and closed discourse. Author John Henning then helps readers identify the most likely places for open and closed classroom discourse by examining an entire unit of instruction and by looking closely at three distinct types of discussions—framing, conceptual, and application. Readers are introduced to specific discourse moves, the patterns of discussion, the amount of preparation, and the types of accountability strategies needed to construct each of these discussions. The final chapter of the book shows readers how to videotape and analyze their classroom interactions in a teacher study group.
Give and Take:
Give and Take: Motherhood and Creative Practice explores the diverse ways contemporary artists navigate the unique tensions of motherhood in all its varied stages. Becoming a mother is a life-changing event that can give mothers greater perspective, drive, and inspiration for making art. But motherhood also takes time and energy from pursuing creative work. This fundamental challenge, this give and take, is explored through this book as it forefronts the art and lives of dancers, playwrights, musicians, visual artists, and creative writers. The book contains thirty-three first person narratives from practicing artists along with written analyses that place these artists' essays within the broader context of arts writing and scholarship about motherhood. The concluding section of the book includes overarching thoughts about how artist mothers can move forward despite structural inequality and cultural bias and includes a resource guide for practical support.
Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood
Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood explores the use of arts in relation to infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and new parenthood. It is the first book to bring all these subjects together into one accessible volume with an international perspective. The book looks at the role of the arts in health with respect to the pregnancy journey, from conception to new parenthood. It introduces readers to the ways in which art is being used with women who are experiencing different stages of childbearing – who may be unable to conceive and are struggling with infertility treatment, or who experience miscarriage and loss, a traumatic birth, or grief over the loss of a baby. It also elucidates how art-making offers a means for women to express and understand their changed sense of self-identity and sexuality as a result of pregnancy and motherhood. The book has an international compass and is essential reading for arts therapy trainees and arts in health courses and will also be of interest to other health professionals and artists.
Dreamlands
A fascinating survey of pioneering work in experimental cinema and art from 1905 to the present day, revealing the high stakes and transformative potential of these forms This generously illustrated publication surveys the work of filmmakers and artists who have pushed the material and conceptual boundaries of cinema. Over the past century, the material, optical, abstract, spatial, and tactile properties of film have been tested at a level of experimentation and utopian ambition that is generally unrecognized. Whether creating synesthetic or 3-D environments, projective or non-projective installations, generations of leading-edge artists have explored how technology transforms experience. Th...
Discombobulated
Redemption Christina had been spoiled her entire life without any consequence for her actions-until now! As she struggles to free herself from the ropes that bound her arms and legs, they cut into her flesh! Triple Double Cross The road to town is red clay, appearing scorched by the blistering sun. The air is hot and stale, smelling of rotten fish. What was supposed to have been an opportunity of a lifetime had now turned into an uncertain fate! Majestic Beauty Kevin is a fourteen-year-old boy sitting motionless, peering through the scope of a Mark V rifle. This decision will change his life forever! Believe Katie sat on the kitchen floor with her arms wrapped around Maggie. The tears had already started rolling down her face, for she knew too well what was next! Gizmo Jackie was a precocious child with intelligence far beyond her years. She had been keeping a secret that has now become a matter of life and death! The Secrets of Sweetwater Bay The secrets had been hidden for decades. They were what nightmares were made of! Now the horrific events were about to happen again! Rosa tried to warn the townspeople, but now it might be to late!
