This concise, no-nonsense guidebook de-mystifies first-class degrees in the arts, humanities and social sciences by explaining how to develop excellent reading, thinking and writing skills.

magine you are a mathematics teacher who gave up English and Drama when you were eighteen years old. Faced with writing a mini-production, which must be suitable for both a group of teenagers who want to look cool in front of their peers and teachers who expect a decent plot and a positive outcome, would fill you with dread, panic and stress. Kidwell not only offers practical advise on how to approach assemblies but also a selection of five minute assemblies as examples.

Dr Dominic Hughes and Benedict Phillips, one of the Oxford Union's most successful debating pairsm give tips and advice for whatever type of speech you have been called upon to give - from the wedding address to the boardroom presentation. The Oxford Union Guide to Speaking in Public is your definitive and indispensable guide.

Global Auteurs employs auteur theory to examine the work of three contemporary and innovative directors: Pedro Almodóvar, Lars von Trier, and Michael Winterbottom. With extensive background information on the global film industry, and on auteur theory and its implications for ideological critique, this book's insightful case studies examine both ideologies the filmmakers re-circulate and ideologies that they confront in textual form. The discussion of Pedro Almodóvar devotes particular attention to mass mediation, the family, and gender in the corpus of his films, while Lars von Trier's corpus is interpreted as driven by a motif that characterizes all of his films: the «failed idealist». Michael Winterbottom's body of work presents a genre-diverse, post-MTV style concerned with «outsiders» and taboo, representation and truth, and human rights. Global Auteurs' sophisticated approach to decoding film is suitable for graduate and undergraduate courses on film, global mass media, and contemporary Europe.

An author subject index to selected general interest periodicals of reference value in libraries.