Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: Filming Russian Classics—Challenges and Opportunities -- 1 Across the Russian Border -- 2 Dostoevskii’s “White Nights”: The Dreamer Goes Abroad -- 3 On Not Showing Dostoevskii’s Work: Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket -- 4 Stealing the Scene: Crime as Confession in Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket -- 5 The Eye-deology of Trauma: Killing Anna Karenina Softly -- 6 “A Vicious Circle”: Karen Shakhnazarov’s Ward no. 6 -- 7 A Slap in the Face of American Taste: Transporting He Who Gets Slapped to American Audiences -- 8 Against Adaptation? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The right stuff -- The new American dream -- How we decide -- Your unique life values profile -- Moving to secure money management -- A word about fear -- Who's in charge of your financial well-being? …”

“…Honorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reading Our Contemporary Petrosphere -- 1 Petrofiction, Revisited -- 2 Energy and Autonomy: Worker Struggles and the Evolution of Energy Systems -- 3 Gendering Petrofi ction: Energy, Imperialism, and Social Reproduction -- 4 Petrofeminism: Love in the Age of Oil -- 5 "We Are Pipeline People": Nnedi Okorafor's Ecocritical Speculations -- 6 Petro-drama in the Niger Delta: Ben Binebai's My Life in the Burning Creeks and Oil's "Refuse of History" -- 7 Documenting "Cheap Nature" in Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace: A Petro-aesthetic Critique -- 8 Aestheticizing Absurd Extraction: Petro-capitalism in Deepak Unnikrishnan's "In Mussafah Grew People" -- 9 Petro-cosmopolitics: Oil and the Indian Ocean in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason -- 10 Xerodrome Lube: Cyclonic Geopoetics and Petropolytical War Machines -- 11 Oil Gets Everywhere: Critical Representations of the Petroleum Industry in Spanish American Literature -- 12 Conjectures on World Energy Literature -- 13 Petrofiction as Stasis in Abdelrahman Munif's Cities of Salt and Joseph O'Neill's Netherland -- 14 Assessing the Veracity of the Gulf Dreams: An Interview with Author Benyamin -- 15 Testimonies from the Permian Basin -- Afterword -- Contributors -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Thompson -- Agrarianism as philosophy / Paul B. Thompson -- American agrariansim : the living tradition / James A. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 13 "Bringing the Wisdom of Wall Street to Limbe": Precarity and (American) Dream Narratives in Imbolo Mbue's Behold the Dreamers -- 1 American Dream Discourse and Precarity in the Novel -- 2 Re-living the Dream: Behold the Dreamer's Use of Dream Tropes -- 3 Translocating the American Dream -- Works Cited -- Chapter 14 The Scenario of (Im-)Migrants as Scroungers and/or Parasites in British Media Discourses -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Methodology -- 3 Immigrants as 'Parasites' -- 3.1 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Have Your Say Discussion Forum -- 3.2 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Press -- 3.3 Immigrants as 'Parasites' in the Blogosphere -- 4 Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Chapter 15 Narrating Precarious Lives: Refugee Tales, African Titanics, and The Year of the Runaways -- 1 Refugees and Narrative Representation -- 2 Refugee Writing, Precarity and Ethical Engagement -- 3 Mediated, Collective Story-Telling in Refugee Tales -- 4 The Poetics of Risk: African Titanics -- 5 Migration and Precarity in The Year of the Runaways -- 6 Conclusion: Precarious Lives and Frameworks of Perception -- Works Cited -- Index…”

“…Jones became an innovative force in modern set design for the American theatre and is credited with bringing “The New Stagecraft” to the American drama. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Between Storytelling and Surveillance: The Precarious Public of American Muslim Youth -- 5. DREAMing Citizenship: Undocumented Youth, Coming Out, and Pathways to Participation -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Teacups and flying saucers -- Section A: Communist infiltration and indoctrination -- Soviet brainwashing, British defectors and the corruptive elsewhere -- "He can be a communist here if he wants to" : living with the monster -- Section B: Nuclear technology -- The beast in the atom : Britain's nuclear nightmares -- Atomic albion : Britain's nuclear dreams -- Section C: Race and immigration -- It came from the colonies! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword by Michael Useem Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Adversity Chapter 1: Finding True North Chapter 2: The Dot Com Crisis Part II: Opportunities Chapter 3: Chasing the American Dream Chapter 4: Serendipity Part III: Off the Beaten Path Chapter 5: A Shining Path Chapter 6: Brewing in the Brousse Part IV: Breaking Free, Coming Home Chapter 7: Breaking Free Chapter 8: Coming Home Part V: Role Models Chapter 9: Father's Footsteps Chapter 10: Practical Advice Conclusions About the Author Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Intersection of Class and Race; 7. Chasing the American Dream: Social Class and Career Counseling; 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The ethical performances of candidates in American presidential campaign dramas / Bruce E. Gronbeck -- Images, issues, and political structure : a framework for judging the ethics of campaign discourse / Ronald Lee -- Electronic democracy, virtual politics, and local communities / Steven R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ease on down the Road -- 13. The Bridge: A Drama -- 14. Good Americans -- 15. The Difference Within -- 16. …”

“…Golden Country, Jennifer Gilmore's masterful and irreverent reinvention of the Jewish American novel, captures the exuberance of the American dream while exposing its underbelly -- disillusionment, greed, and the disaffection bred by success. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Eight stories, eight successes -- Audrey Maxwell: how a good employee can become a great partner, build a dream house and become a millionaire in seven years -- Alan Silver: converting selling skills into millions of dollars worth of equity in five years -- Bruce Buffer: giving up a six-figure income to generate a seven-figure net worth -- Justin Ford: achieving a radical financial transformation: how to go from bankruptcy to millionaire in six years -- Ken Morris: coming to America and cashing in on the American dream: from $10,000 to $10,000,000 in six years -- Monica Day: getting started: how to boost your income from $26,000 to $134,000 in three years -- David Keller: you don't need a medical degree to make a million dollars -- Brad Solomon: even accountants can get rich: how to achieve a $4 million in six years -- The baby boomer challenge: why 50- and 60-year-olds need to follow the seven years to seven figures plan -- Lessons about the Internet from a compulsive money maker…”