Focus Imprint

We are pleased to announce that Hackett Publishing Company is now the publisher and distributor of Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company titles. For more than twenty-five years, Focus Publishing—a small independent press—demonstrated a strong commitment to the arts and humanities, with highly respected lists in classics, modern languages, philosophy, and theater. In order to preserve the independent character of the Focus lists, ‘Focus’ is now an imprint of Hackett Publishing Company. Current Focus titles, forthcoming titles, and new works acquired for its lists will be published by Hackett Publishing under the Focus imprint.
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  1. 1000 Jahre Deutsche Literatur (Second Edition)

    Gudrun Clay

    "1,000 Jahre Deutsche Literatur does a marvelous job of presenting literary texts within their cultural contexts, including an excellent overview of the history of the German Language from Germanic times to the Enlightenment. Professor Clay's writing style is lively and accessible. The accompanying pedagogical exercises reinforce learning of the material, while also affording opportunities for independent thinking and reflection. This newly-revised edition should be a favorite for students and teachers alike."
       –Dennis Mahoney, University of Vermont

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  2. A Hackett Test Prep Manual for Use with AP® Latin

    Ed DeHoratius

    Written by veteran author and Latin teacher Ed DeHoratius, A Hackett Test Prep Manual for Use with AP® Latin addresses the difficulties students face preparing for the AP® Latin exam. Students just beginning to prepare for the exam, already well-prepared students, and AP® Latin teachers alike will benefit from its systematic presentation of the wide variety of material covered by the exam.

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  3. A Handbook of Russian Prepositions

    Frank Miller

    A reference guide in Russian about Russian prepositions with exercises for guided practice.

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  4. A Handbook of Russian Verbs

    Frank Miller

    A reference guide in Russian about Russian verbs with exercises for guided practice.

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  5. A Horace Reader

    Henry V. Bender

    Intended for the Latin student with three years of Latin experience who is preparing for the Advanced Placement examination in Latin literature, this text offers a complete and thorough preparation, including an introduction to Horace's life and work, Latin text of 28 poems with facing notes, glossaries on meter and figures of speech, and a complete vocabulary. Each poem is introduced by a brief summary in English.

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  6. A Midsummer Night's Dream

    William Shakespeare
    Edited by John Ford
    Series Editor James H. Lake

    "This edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream is wonderfully lucid and thoughtful, offering supporting material that will appeal to readers from high school students to scholars. The introduction is especially thoughtful, offering, in addition to expected discussions of love, magic and imagination, an exploration of the theatrical history. The bibliography and filmography are both detailed and helpful, and the questions guide students to consider the play from many viewpoints without ever forcing an interpretation onto them."
         —Annalisa Castaldo, Widener University

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  7. A More Perfect Ten

    Gary Garrison

    A More Perfect Ten is a revision of Gary Garrison's pioneering book on writing and producing the 10-minute play, and it is now the most authoritative book on this emerging play form. The 10-minute play has become a regular feature of theatre companies and festivals from coast to coast, and Garrison has distilled the advice of many of those people who had been instrumental in promoting the ten minute play for the last few years.

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  8. A Younger Ten

    Gary Garrison

    In A Younger Ten: Writing the Ten-Minute Play, Gary Garrison distills the playwriting guidance pioneered in his widely consulted Perfect Ten (2001) and A More Perfect Ten (2008), here recast for the needs of aspiring ten-minute playwrights at the high school level. Not satisfied with merely telling how such a play is crafted, Garrison includes a new all-star lineup of eight complete ten-minute plays by a variety of playwrights, emerging as well as established, that can serve as models for writers just starting out in the genre.

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  9. Acharnians (Second Edition)

    Aristophanes
    Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Jeffrey Henderson

    "Henderson has a real gift for capturing Aristophanes' voice, and does not hesitate to leap totally over the top, just like his author."
          —New England Classical Journal

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  10. Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds

    Aristophanes
    Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Jeffrey Henderson

    This anthology offers English translations of three of Aristophanes' greatest comedies, Acharnians, Clouds, and Lysistrata, by Jeffrey Henderson, one of the most important scholars and translators of Greek comedy. Each comedy is also available in a single-play edition from Hackett Publishing's Focus imprint. Learn More
  11. Acting and Living in Discovery

    Carol Rosenfeld

    "Carol Rosenfeld has a singular gift for discerning and nurturing in her students the live connections that release emotionally charged experience into active and meaningful play. Her book is a bottomless resource for the actor who aspires to that seamless merging of self and character that can make the theatre thrilling. It is hard and vulnerable work that she demands, but she is there with you as a guide, saying 'search here, observe there, sense this, question, question, question, and allow'—If you trust her, you will surprise yourself."
         —Edith Meeks, Executive and Artistic Director, HB Studio

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  12. Aeneid (Krisak Edition)

    Virgil
    Translated by Len Krisak
    Introduction and Notes by Christopher M. McDonough

    Rising to the challenge of rendering the poem's Latin hexameters by adopting English iambic ones, Len Krisak's Aeneid doubles down on the English poetic tradition by also featuring rhyme. In Krisak's hands, these devices provide not only a superb kind of music but the snap and power of an epic adventure that glories in what only formal poetry can do. Enhanced by an Introduction and an extensive set of notes by Christopher M. McDonough, this Aeneid works as story, voice, and verse.

    "Virgil’s Aeneid, though central to the Western canon, is also one of the most difficult to tackle for the translator, with its knotty syntax, its famously 'pious' protagonist, and its slippery ambivalence toward questions of truth and power. In this fresh translation, Len Krisak not only boldly meets Virgil line-for-line, but in a hexameter that answers the original meter, all while hewing to straightforward English with a weather eye on the Latin. The six-beat line has a reputation in English for dragging, but Krisak's hexameters drive along briskly. His choice to rhyme throughout, sometimes chiming ingeniously and sometimes with subtler off-rhyme effects, brings home that we are reading not only an epic narrative, but a verse performance. This work, concerned with human displacement in the aftermath of a prolonged war, with its themes of personal responsibility, duty, and leadership, and imbued with anxiety about the direction of a nation, could not be more topical." —A. E. Stallings

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  13. Aeneid, A Prose Translation

    Vergil
    Edited and Translated by Richard Caldwell

    An exciting prose translation of the epic poem, beautifully illustrated by Merle Mianelli Poulton, with all the right pedagogical apparatus to make reading this important work a joy for any modern college or high school student. The text is complete with notes, introductory essay, glossary, and an appendix detailing the tabulation of the gods.

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  14. Aeneid: Book 1

    Vergil
    Edited by Randall T. Ganiban

    "The new Vergil commentaries from Focus are an exciting resource for almost anyone reading the Aeneid in Latin. . . . The editors recognize that developing core reading skills and involving students in the interpretive questions raised by the poem are not separate objectives. This recognition has resulted in commentaries that enticingly present basic information in a wider setting of observation and enquiry. . . . All in all, the Focus series balances simplicity and subtlety, reminding students at all levels that increasing technical precision and stretching one's interpretive curiosity are—fundamentally—one endeavor."
         —Antonia Syson, Purdue University, in Teaching Classical Languages (CAMWS)

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  15. NEW
    Aeneid: Book 10

    Vergil
    Edited by Andreola Rossi

    Vergil: Aeneid 10 is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume adapts, with extensive revisions and additions, the commentaries of T. E. Page (1884, 1900) and is edited by a scholar of Roman epic. The present volume offers the Latin text of Book 10 along with extensive notes and commentary designed to meet the needs of intermediate students of Latin.

    “The new Vergil commentaries from Focus are an exciting resource for almost anyone reading the Aeneid in Latin. The editors recognize that developing core reading skills and involving students in the interpretive questions raised by the poem are not separate objectives. This recognition has resulted in commentaries that enticingly present basic information in a wider setting of observation and enquiry. All in all, the Focus series balances simplicity and subtlety, reminding students at all levels that increasing technical precision and stretching one’s interpretive curiosity are—fundamentally—one endeavor.”
    —Antonia Syson, late of Purdue University, in Teaching Classical Languages (CAMWS)

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  16. Aeneid: Book 2

    Vergil
    Edited by Randall T. Ganiban

    "His introductory commentary on book II of the Aeneid, designed for students starting from an intermediate knowledge of Latin, offers the essential tools for a full understanding, correct translation, and appropriate interpretation of Vergil’s text."
         —Beatrice Larosa, Università della Calabria, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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  17. Aeneid: Book 4

    Vergil
    Edited by James J. O'Hara

    "The commentary itself is a gem, and students and teachers of Aeneid 4 alike will be very grateful to James O’Hara for the excellent job he has done to balance comments that help with translation and comprehension alongside those that allow students to engage with current scholarly debates about the interpretation of the Aeneid, as well as with Virgil's literary, philosophical and cultural contexts. . . . In conclusion, this is an engaging, learned and extremely useful commentary. It is well-directed to its intended audience of intermediate students but is also a useful resource for more advanced readers, particularly those wanting insight into the current state of scholarship on the Aeneid and significant recent debates about Book 4. It is lucid and well edited, and I highly recommend it."
         —Anne Rogerson, University of Sydney, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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  18. Aeneid: Book 5

    Vergil
    Edited by Joseph Farrell

    Aeneid: Book 5, part of the the Focus Vergil Aeneid commentaries series, includes an introduction, Latin-language text, commentary, and other student materials. It is designed for the intermediate Latin-language student in upper division courses teaching the Aeneid in departments of Classics or Latin Language.

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  19. Aeneid: Book 6

    Vergil
    Edited by Patricia Johnston

    "This is an admirable commentary, with Latin text, vocabulary, and appendix on Vergil’s meter, offering students of Vergil at the intermediate level or higher succinct grammatical, stylistic, and contextual help towards a rich understanding of the poet’s profound portrayal of Aeneas’ descent into the lower world. It is prefaced by an enticing introduction to the role played by this book in the narrative of the epic as a whole, and sections of the commentary have bibliographical references for further reading."
         —Raymond J. Clark, University of Ottawa, Canada

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  20. Aeneid: Book 7

    Vergil
    Edited by Randall T. Ganiban

    Vergil: Aeneid 7 is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume adapts, with extensive revisions and additions, the commentaries of T. E. Page (1884, 1900) and is edited by a scholar of Roman epic. The present volume offers the Latin text of Book 7 along with maps, extensive notes, and commentary designed to meet the needs of intermediate students of Latin. A two-volume edition of the entire Aeneid designed to meet the needs of advanced students will be derived from the series. 

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  21. Aeneid: Book 8

    Vergil
    Edited by James J. O'Hara

    Series: The Focus Vergil Aeneid Commentaries

    Vergil: Aeneid 8 is part of a new series of commentaries on the Aeneid. Each volume adapts with extensive revisions and additions the commentaries of T. E. Page (1884, 1900), and is edited by a scholar of Roman epic. The present volume offers the Latin text of Book 8 along with maps, extensive notes, and commentary designed to meet the needs of intermediate students of Latin.

    "[F]or accessibility, affordability, and portability, O’Hara's commentary is hard to beat. I fully intend to use it when I next teach Aeneid 8 in my advanced Latin class, and I can heartily recommend that others do too."  —Brian P. Loar, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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  22. Aeneid: Books 1–6

    Vergil
    General Editor: Randall Ganiban; Contributing Editors: Christine Perkell, James J. O'Hara, Joseph Farrell, and Patricia A. Johnston

    Vergil, Aeneid Books 1–6 is the first of a two-volume commentary on Vergil's epic designed specifically for today’s Latin students. These editions navigate the complexities of Vergil’s text and elucidate the stylistic and interpretive issues that enhance and sustain appreciation of the Aeneid. Editions of individual books of the Aeneid with expanded comments and vocabulary are also available from Hackett.

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  23. All's Well That Ends Well

    William Shakespeare
    Edited by Kathleen Kalpin Smith
    Series Editor James H. Lake

    "Adding entirely new annotations to the text, providing a lucid overview of the play's production history, concluding with an instructive essay on a theatrical understanding of reading plays, and illustrated with suggestive film stills throughout, Kathleen Kalpin Smith's All's Well that Ends Well is a welcome edition to the New Kittredge Shakespeare series, richly setting the play in the context of stage and screen performance."
         —W. B. Worthen, Barnard College, Columbia University

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  24. Allen & Greenough's New Latin Grammar

    Anne Mahoney

    Based on the 1903 edition, this attractive, newly typeset reprint of the classic work in Latin Grammar has some updating of the material on meter. The key system widely used to reference grammar in numerous Latin texts has been retained. Available in hardcover or paperback.

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  25. Almanya - Willkommen in Deutschland (Welcome to Germany) DVD or Blu-Ray

    Directed by Yasemin Şamdereli

    The story of three generations of a Turkish immigrant family. Location in Cineplex: Chapter 6. 101 minutes. Region 2 DVD: Japan, Europe, South Africa, and the Middle East, including Egypt. You may need special equipment to play this DVD. Please visit about.com for more details. Region B Blu-Ray: Africa, Australia, Europe (including overseas territories of Britain, France, and the Netherlands, excluding Russia), Iceland, Greenland, New Zealand, Oceania, Southwest Asia. You may need special equipment to play this DVD. Please visit about.com for more details.

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  26. Amphitryo

    Plautus
    Text and Commentary by Anne Mahoney

    A thorough and modern commentary on Plautus' classic comedy Amphitryo, including the 15th-century supplement for the lost scenes. With vocabulary and brief notes on meter.

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  27. An Actor's Task

    Baron Kelly

    An Actor's Task provides a framework for studying the dual arts of acting: inhabiting a character both physically and psychologically. Actors at all levels can use this book to explore, develop, and review the sensory tools and training that enable them to be the best versions of themselves and, ultimately, to bring that understanding of "self" to their art. 

    "Through a series of engaging exercises, this book filters out the complexities of various acting techniques and offers up an appealing hands-on approach."
         —Tonya Pinkins, Tony Award–winning actress

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  28. An Ovid Reader

    Edited by Ed DeHoratius

    Geared toward the advanced high school or intermediate college Latin student, An Ovid Reader covers a selection of works by the great Roman poet Ovid. Passages from Amores and Metamorphoses are arranged in ways that connect for the reader, and innovative discussion questions prompt thoughtful insights into the tales.

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  29. Animation for Russian Conversation

    Jason Merrill, Julia Mikhailova, and Maria Alley

    Animation for Russian Conversation draws on the best known Russian works of animation—Cheburashka, Karlson the Hedgehog, and Vinni Pukh. Intended for Russian students of the Novice High to Intermediate Mid levels according to ACTFL guidelines, this book offers high interest to anyone learning Russian through authentic, but accessible Russian materials. Exercises cover vocabulary and grammar, with advanced exercises to challenge students further.

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  30. Antony and Cleopatra

    William Shakespeare
    Edited by Sarah Hatchuel
    Series Editor James H. Lake

    "The New Kittredge Series is both a delight and a steal. Kittredge's textual authority, updated by eminent scholars sensitive to classroom needs and alert to staging choices, is once again available in these slim, elegant, inexpensive, user-friendly volumes. With lucid notes and incisive introductions geared especially to popular film versions, the series also offers an overview of both stage and film performances of each play. A must for any Shakespeare class."
         —Laury Magnus

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  31. Apologies

    Plato & Xenophon
    Translated, with Introduction and Glossary, by Mark Kremer

    "Kremer's is an attractive text because of its combination of simplicity and strong delivery, and this is true regarding his translation and his interpretive essay alike. He has striven for a scrupulous accuracy in his translation, and he has achieved this without sacrificing readability or neglecting the distinctive tone of Plato and Xenophon."
         —Norma Thompson, Yale University

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  32. Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film

    Robert C. Reimer and Reinhard Zachau

    The second book in a two book series on German film study, Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Film covers 14 of the 31 films covered in the first book in the series in German with an emphasis on German language skills. The first book in the series, German Culture Through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema, covers 31 German films in English. 

    For additional film resources visit Reinhard Zachau's German film website.

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  33. Archaic Latin Verse

    Mario Erasmo

    Archaic Latin Verse offers text and commentary of the earliest surviving Latin work including selections from oral verse, Livius, Naevius, Ennius, and others (Caecilius, Accius, Pacuvius, and Lucilius). For 3rd or 4th year college Latin literature survey courses that incorporate source material in Latin.

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  34. Art of Active Dramaturgy

    Lenora Inez Brown

    "This is the first real text, the first real primer for how to be a dramaturg in a variety of settings—from production to new plays. It takes a student from a close reading (really directing that reading) to formulating questions, to meeting with directors, playwrights, designers, to formulating acting packets and finally to opening night. I don't think any other book on the market does such a complete job with such research and in such a great format."
          —Mark Charney, Clemson University

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  35. Artist's Guide to the Law

    Richard Amada

    "Author Rich Amada has done a remarkable job in de-mystifying the legal system and basic law for creative types. Amada has written this work in a very clear and even humorous manner, making it a surprisingly easy, quick read. Anyone can readily understand the basics to how to protect one’s work and potentially maximize profits from creative labor after reading Amada’s book."
         —Andy Rodriguez, New Phoenix Filmworks

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  36. As You Like It

    William Shakespeare
    Edited by Patricia Lennox
    Series Editor James H. Lake

    "Now, in the twenty-first century, Patricia Lennox broadens that understanding in her excellent edition of As You Like It where she draws on her knowledge of international film and television. She offers new meaning for modern readers who, while they savor Shakespeare’s language also understand visual signals from contemporary media."
         —Irene G. Dash, Hunter College, CUNY, retired

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  37. Athenian Funeral Orations

    Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Judson Herrman

    This volume collects all of the surviving state funeral orations from Athens, including Thucydides, Gorgias, Lysias, Plato Menexenus, Demosthenes, and Hyperides. To stimulate student discussion and comparison, Lincoln's address at Gettysburg is included in an appendix. Translations are in English, including introduction and notes, as well as literary and historical commentary.

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  38. Auricula Meretricula

    Ruby Blondell and Ann Cumming

    This play is a unique text for students in their first semester of Latin. Each scene uses new forms and vocabulary, thus reinforcing the students' grasp of grammar by placing it in a living context. At the same time it provides an enticing introduction to Roman comedy and elegy. First published in 1981, Auricula was greeted with enthusiasm by students and teachers, and is currently used in many classics departments in the US and elsewhere. This substantially revised edition includes new scenes and characters while reducing the overall quantity of unfamiliar vocabulary.

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  39. Bacchae (Esposito Edition)

    Euripides
    Translated, with Introduction and Notes, by Stephen Esposito

    English translation, with introductory material, notes, glossary and essay by Stephen Esposito, of Euripides' tragedy based on the mythological story of King Pentheus of Thebes.

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  40. Breathe and Speak

    Marc Clopton

    This book is a collection of fifty-five "open scenes" for actors in nine categories such as male/male scenes, three person scenes, and non-gender specific monologues. The scenes contain little to no stage directions or indications regarding specific emotions. The actor learns to say, "I don't know" to many details of the scene, and in doing so, must trust both the text and him or herself, his or her partner, and the moment.

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  41. By Roman Hands (Second Edition)

    Matthew Hartnett

    By Roman Hands, Second Edition takes Latin out of the textbook and allows students to see and translate Latin as it actually appeared on Roman monuments, walls, and tombs. The first collection of entirely authentic and un-adapted inscriptions and graffiti accessible to beginning and intermediate students of Latin, By Roman Hands unites the study of language and culture in a novel and compelling way and at a level that the Latin can be grasped and discussed by early Latin learners. Ranging from a love letter hastily scratched on a Pompeian wall to the proclamation of an emperor's achievements formally inscribed on a monumental arch, these carefully selected texts afford fascinating glimpses into the lives and minds of the Romans, even as they illustrate and reinforce the basic elements of the Latin language.

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  42. Caderno de Produção, Corrected Edition

    Patricia Isabel Sobral and Clémence Jouët-Pastré

    Caderno de Produção is an integral and interactive companion to Mapeando a Língua Portuguesa através das Artes, providing additional innovative exercises for each chapter of the textbook. Throughout each unit, all of which are in Portuguese, students will build their speaking, writing, and comprehension skills with exercises in vocabulary, grammar explanations and structures, additional readings, and videos featuring interviews and images from well-known artists of the Portuguese-speaking world, (the videos are available here at no charge). Course instructors: Request the Caderno de Produção workbook answer key here.

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  43. Candide ou l'Optimisme

    Voltaire
    Edited by Myrna Rochester and Eileen Angelini

    This Focus student edition of Candide has been designed to help students approach the original French text through an introductory essay, vocabulary and cultural notes, activities and study questions. All material is in French, and complete in one volume.

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  44. Ciak . . . si parla italiano: Cinema for Italian Conversation

    Piero Garofalo and Daniela Selisca

    Ciak si parla italiano is a new text designed specifically for courses in Italian conversation that focus on cinema as the context for discussion. This text covers sixteen films ranging from Pietro Germi's Divorzio all'italiana to Pupi Avati's Il cuore altrove. They cover a broad range of genres: comedy, drama, science fiction, historical, political, social. They are films that students and instructors find interesting and engaging. The readings which accompany each film vary, and augment the film screenings and class discussions. There are five types of readings: background information on the director and film, cultural explications, scene transcriptions, directors comments, and poetry. While the first two serve to orient and contextualize the films for the students, the transcriptions allows for a more detailed linguistic analysis of a particular scene. The directors comments provide an insightful interpretation to stimulate discussion. The poetry readings were inspired by filmic references and inspire students to expand their insights beyond the specific film.

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  45. Cinema for French Conversation (Fourth Edition)

    Anne-Christine Rice

    A new 5th edition of Cinema for French Conversation is now available (released in September 2022) (read more about the new edition here).

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  46. Cinema for German Conversation

    Jeanne Schueller

    Cinema for German Conversation covers twelve German language films that are used as the basis for discussion and language acquisition, teaching vocabulary, strengthening oral and written skills, and as well as an introduction to modern German culture. The films are selected to provide interesting viewing, key cultural information, and accessible language levels. Each chapter of the book is devoted to a single movie and includes aids for students watching the film, discussing and writing about the film, and understanding the film in a broader cultural context. An electronic (PDF only) instructor's manual for Cinema for German Conversation is available to qualified course instructors who have adopted the text for their course. To request a copy, click here.

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  47. Cinema for Portuguese Conversation

    Bonnie S. Wasserman

    Cinema for Portuguese Conversation uses Brazilian, Portuguese, and Lusophone African cinema to enhance the study of Portuguese language and culture, including the sertão, urban violence, political transitions, women, and the mythological legend of Orpheus. Fourteen feature films are covered, drawn largely from modern Brazilian film. Examples from Cape Verde and Portugal are also included. An electronic (PDF only) instructor's manual for Cinema for Portuguese Conversation is available to qualified course instructors who have adopted the text for their course. To request a copy, click here.

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  48. Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume 1

    Olga Kagan, Mara Kashper, and Yuliya Morozova

    This is the first in a two-volume series of books designed to facilitate discussion in Russian of Russian language films. Each chapter concentrates on one film and includes assignments for students training from Intermediate to Advanced Plus proficiency according to the ACTFL guidelines. The book has a modular structure that allows instructors to select the films according to the students' interests and goals of the class. The book can be used on its own as a textbook or as a supplemental material for classes at various levels. While the book's main purpose is the development of students' conversation skills, each chapter includes texts for reading comprehension and exercises that focus on the acquisition of written skills and grammatical accuracy.

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  49. Cinema for Russian Conversation, Volume 2

    Olga Kagan, Mara Kashper, and Yuliya Morozova

    This is the second in a two-volume series of books designed to facilitate discussion in Russian of Russian language films. Each chapter concentrates on one film and includes assignments for students training from Intermediate to Advanced Plus proficiency according to the ACTFL guidelines. The book has a modular structure that allows instructors to select the films according to the students' interests and goals of the class. The book can be used on its own as a textbook or as a supplemental material for classes at various levels. While the book's main purpose is the development of students' conversation skills, each chapter includes texts for reading comprehension and exercises that focus on the acquisition of written skills and grammatical accuracy. 

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  50. Cinema for Spanish Conversation (Fifth Edition)

    Mary McVey Gill, Deana Smalley, and María-Paz Haro

    Cinema for Spanish Conversation, Fifth Edition, draws on sixteen high-interest films (and related readings) to introduce students to the authentic language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Each chapter offers a wide variety of activities designed to improve students’ conversational skills as well as opportunities for reading and writing practice. New to the fifth edition are three new critically acclaimed films, including Yuli (set in Cuba), El último verano de la Boyita (Argentina), and Oscar-award-winning film Roma (Mexico), along with readings and activities related to each. Also new is a section, added to each chapter, offering new and expanded activities related to the films, updated information on each film, and its actors and directors, and a revised and updated appendix, organized by chapter, offering a list of recent films that can be compared or contrasted to the films in the book. Available for sale only in the US, Canada, and UK.

    "Cinema for Spanish Conversation is already a classic pedagogical text, geared for those students seeking to improve their verbal fluency in the Spanish language while exploring complex issues relating to contemporary Spanish-speaking societies and their diaspora through the lenses of the film industry."
    —Asela R. Laguna, Rutgers University, Newark

    Instructor's Manual (PDF): A PDF-only instructor's manual is available. Please use this form to request the instructor's manual.

    Films page: Links to purchase/rent/stream the films are available on the Cinema for Spanish Conversation films page.

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