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This book offers a unique contrast in media approach to film and fiction. It seeks to sharpen an understanding of how stories and films work and it encourages a reader-viewer to probe more confidently into the strategies of cinematic and literary storytelling modes. Each of the first ten story/film combinations closes with exercises and writing suggestions designed to enhance critical awareness and faster creative writing. Five contrasts in media...

A collection of essays by twenty short-story writers and critics, ranging from Poe to Gordimer, offers theoretical analyses of and approaches to the short story, considered as a distinct and significant genre.

The Bestselling Collection of Our Time, Edited by Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine - A superlative collection of 36 unforgettable stories by Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, W. Somerset Maugham, J.D. Salinger, Mary McCarthy, James Thurber, and many others.

"For over a hundred years stories about photographs and photography have reflected the profound uncertainties and inconclusive endings of the modern world. For many writers, photography, supposedly the most realistic of the arts, turns out to be the most ambiguous. As Jane Rabb observes in her introduction, a number of the stories in this collection involve mysteries, perhaps because photography has a capacity for both documentary reality and moral...

After years of critical neglect the short story is at last coming into its own as an important and distinctive literary form. In this stimulating introduction, Valerie Shaw asserts the claims of the short story as an art form in its own right. She addresses herself throughout to two key question: "What are the special satisfactions afforded by reading short stories?" and "How are these satisfactions derived from each story's literary techniques and...