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Contemporary focus, right up to date with material from 1980s and 90s. Wide-ranging analyses of major directors, themes, genres and issues, including historical film, genre cinema, women in film and autonomies.

Roy and Bark were walking home, when Principal Meansly blames them for trashing his yard. Join them as they solve this trash can mystery.

How did the Franco dictatorship and subsequent transition to democracy impact upon Spanish film-making? What is meant by nuevo cine espanol or espanolada? How do you say "close-up" or "tracking shot" in Spanish? What sort of critical methods and tools can we apply to study Spanish cinema and what resources are available to us? This book answers these and many more questions, providing crucial information and examples of analysis normally found in separate volumes. This book will be an indispensable resource for students and teachers of Spanish cinema. Topics include: -A history of Spanish cinema from 1896 to 2003 -An overview of Film Studies Basics applied to Spanish films. -A review of key critical concepts such as auteurism, genre and stars. -A critical review of Spanish film theory. -Case studies on issues of national identity and gender in Spanish cinema. -A glossary of technical terms in English and Spanish, as well as bibliographies of both English and Spanish works.

David Beckham, Tiger Woods, Anna Kournikova - over recent years sports stars, on both sides of the Atlantic, have not just crossed over into the mainstream celebrity scene, but increasingly dominate it. This volume offers an analysis of the development of modern sport in the UK and the USA.

These five articles, collected from journals not widely known in the Hispanic field, deal with issues of literary and cultural theory in relation to British Hispanism.

Barry Jordan examines the emergence of the novela social, Spain's post-war realist novel, and the political conditions that lead to its development.

Grandma! Can I Get a Dog? is about the relationship between a grandmother and her grandson. It starts out with Grandma and her grandson Boy going to the store. There, Boy asks Grandma to buy him a dog, but Grandma is not happy with this idea at all. Will Boy ever get a dog of his own?

Money and death can do strange things to families. In this ground-breaking book, explerienced Wills and Estates lawyers, Barry Fish, Jordan M. Atin, and Les Kotzer, provide insight and strategies to help you in your inheritance dispute.