Creative Scrapbook Piecing with Marina du Plessis is a collection of scrapbook layouts created with little other than paper. Each of the 60 full-colour layouts includes templates of the frames, letters, titles, tags, envelopes, etc., as well as the templates and easy-to-understand instructions for constructing the three-dimensional figurines featured on the layout. The elements provided may also be used separately to create your own layouts. If you prefer a simpler style, some of the elements may be replaced with additional photographs or journaling. Either way, you will find ideas and inspiration, whether you are a novice scrapper or a well-seasoned scrapping addict.

Creative Scrapbook Piecing 2 with Marina du Plessis follows on the success of her first book on the subject – Creative Scrapbook Piecing with Marina du Plessis – and the clamour for more from scrappers around the country. In this collection of layouts, Marina presents themes encompassing nostalgia, special memories, outright fun and an array of special occasions including a birthday, a Matric dance, a wedding, a christening and an unusual family gathering. The choice is yours; you can faithfully replicate the layouts in this book or you can select specific elements to create your own individual layouts – the choice is yours. Whatever your treasured moments are, capture them forever in this exciting craft. The main ingredients and tools for scrapbook piecing are simple: photographs, paper, ink and a pair of scissors! Each layout includes templates of the frames, letters, titles, tags, journaling and envelopes, as well as the templates for constructing the three-dimensional figurines. Instructions are simple to follow and are accompanied by full-colour photographs. No matter if you have been scrapping for years or you're a beginner, the projects will provide you with plenty of ideas and inspiration.

Scrapbooking afficionados keep coming back for more from Marina du Plessis! And it’s little wonder, because she knows exactly what scrapbookers want. In this, her third collection, she offers more cost effective projects that revolve around her versatile and internationally unique three-dimensional figurines created mostly with paper and imagination. So even if you have less disposable income to devote to your favourite craft than before, Marina’s templates for the figurines and lettering and other elements will see you happily scrapping in an affordable manner. Best of all, you can replicate the projects as is, or you can mix and match, vary and choose to create your own personalised layouts. Included in the templates are figurines, frames, letters, titles, tags, envelopes and other decorative elements. The 40+ themes ensure that there is something suitable for girls and boys (of all ages!), and cover birthdays, festivals and special events, weddings, memories, pets and simply good times. Accompanied by full-colour photographs, instructions are clear and easy to understand, for both advanced and beginner scrappers.

There is no end to scrapbooking as a craft, or to the popularity of Marina du Plessis’s scrapbook piecing. Back with a fourth collection of scrapbook layouts in Creative Scrapbook Piecing 4 with Marina du Plessis, the author provides designs for a host of special occasions and reasons to preserve memories of family and friends. Using mostly paper, each of the 42 full-colour layouts includes easy-to-understand instructions and templates for making the frames, letters, titles, tags, envelopes and the three-dimensional figurines. Elements may be mixed and matched, or adapted, to personalise your own layouts. There are themes to suit boys and girls (from babies to adults) and these include birthdays, weddings, special festivals and events, weddings, memories, pets and good times. Projects are suitable for advanced and beginner scrappers.

Scrapbooking doesn't have to be expensive--these lovely and creative sample layouts just require paper and scissors . . . and your own special touch!

Issues for Nov. 1957- include section: Accessions. Aanwinste, Sept. 1957-

Covering a wide range of historical, theoretical, critical and cultural contexts, this collection studies key issues in contemporary Woolf studies.

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.