Publisher Description

It's the last day of the school year, so it must be time for Wiglaf and all his friends at Dragon Slayers' Academy to go home and enjoy the lazy hazy days of a medieval summer. Ummm, not quite. Not when Mordred the gold-hungry headmaster realizes there's money to be made running a camp. This double-sized summer super special packs in twice the fun for fans of DSA, and there's a full-color 8-page insert that pulls out and includes a ghost story, jokes, and more. The Horn Book calls DSA "a hilarious and deservedly popular magic-propelled series set in the Middle Ages.

Author Biography

Kate McMullan is the award-winning author of more than seventy-five books for children. She lives in Sag Harbor, New York.

Long Description

The Christian faith has had a powerful impact on every sphere of art in the West. While the Church, particularly in the United States in the 20th Century, cautions against the potential dangers of film as a corrosive influence on society, films emerge which are recognized as masterpieces of Christian art. In this original new book, Peter Fraser analyzes sacramental films, where the narrative has been disrupted and redeemed by a divine presence, in an analogy to Christian liturgical and devotional patterns. This presence transforms the filM&Apos;s narrative into the most recognizable of all Christian narrative patterns: the Passion. Fraser examines the films which best portray Christ's Passion, and he provides a theoretical discussion of this unique and neglected genre of filmmaking. Chapters offer a close reading of important films with spiritual content, including On the Waterfront , Diary of a Country Priest , Hardcore , The Mission , Andrej Rubl^Dev , Black Robe , You Only Live Once , and Rome, Open City . Fraser concludes with a chapter on the development of the Biblical epic.

Description for Library

When the gold-hungry headmaster of Dragon Slayers' Academy realizes that he can make money running a summer camp, Camp Dragononka is born, but there is something not quite right about the activities and the setting.

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