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Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the ...

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FIGURE 8. Garth Jowett, bopping in 1956, soon after Fred Astaire entertained Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon (Vincente Minnelli, 1953). (photograph of Garth Jowett, collection Garth Jowett, reprinted by kind permission Garth Jowett; frame ...
Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund ...

Children and the Movies: Media Influence and the Payne Fund ...

Garth S. Jowett

Media Influence and the Payne Fund Controversy Garth S. Jowett, Ian C. Jarvie, Kathryn H. Fuller ... At the Archives of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Jowett and Jarvie were helped immeasurably by assistant archivist ...
Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays

Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion: New and Classic Essays

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Brainwashing:The Korean POW Controversy and the Origins of a Myth Garth S. Jowett Origins of the Term The concept of “brainwashing” has been a lingering problem in the field of propaganda studies since the 1950s, when it was first ...
Propaganda & Persuasion

Propaganda & Persuasion

Garth S. Jowett

The book includes current research in propaganda and persuasion, discusses the use of propaganda in psychological warfare, and offers students a systematic approach to analyzing the propaganda and persuasion they will encounter in everyday ...
Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, ...

Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, ...

Tino Balio

Time review of THE PUBLIC ENEMY, quoted in Garth Jowett, "Bullets, Beer and the Hays Office: Public Enemy," in John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson, eds., American History, American Film: Interpreting the Hollywood Image (New York: ...
Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays

Sexual Rhetoric in the Works of Joss Whedon: New Essays

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Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott have written a great deal about the influence of genre upon the construction of Buffy and Angel. Jowett writes that, while Buffy utilizes feminized forms, such as soap opera, romance, and melodrama, it partakes ...
The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions ...

The Literary Angel: Essays on Influences and Traditions ...

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Lorna Jowett, “Helping the Hopeless: Angel as Critical Dystopia,” Critical Studies in Television 2 (Spring 2007), 74–89 at 82. Whedon scholar Lorna Jowett convincingly applies Baccolini and Moylan's theories of dystopian protagonists as ...
Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television

Torchwood Declassified: Investigating Mainstream Cult Television

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Lorna Jowett and Stacey Abbott, TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (London, 2013). 7. Lorna Jowett, Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan (Middletown, Connecticut, 2005), p. 157. 8. See my ...
What Belongs to You

What Belongs to You

Garth Greenwell

He reigns at the heart of this book, surrounded by the magic flames of desire' Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story 'There's a particular joy in reading Garth Greenwell, in having that feeling, precious and rare: here is the real thing ...
Garth Brooks: Country Music Superstar

Garth Brooks: Country Music Superstar

Laura Lee Wren

Presents the life and career of singer and songwriter Garth Brooks, discussing how his popularity brought country music to the pop music listening audience.
Americanization of History: Conflation of Time and Culture ...

Americanization of History: Conflation of Time and Culture ...

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As noted by Lorna Jowett (Sex and the Slayer CT: Wesleyen UP, 51) because of restrictions imposed by the network on showing homosexual affection, their early relationship was developed primarily through metaphor and allusion: 51.
TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen

TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen

Lorna Jowett

The historical breadth of the discussion, alongside detailed analysis of an exciting and diverse selection of television series, makes this book a must-have for those studying TV genre, as well as for anyone with a taste for the gruesome ...
Two Songs This Archangel Sings

Two Songs This Archangel Sings

George C. Chesbro

Mongo and his brother Garth are changed forever, as is their view of the world, because they possess a secret that must never be told.
A Gentleman for Dry Creek

A Gentleman for Dry Creek

Janet Tronstad

Garth Elkton had found Sylvia Bannister's car in a ditch and rescued her from the freezing weather.
Oxford's Protestant Spy: The Controversial Career of Charles ...

Oxford's Protestant Spy: The Controversial Career of Charles ...

Andrew Atherstone

John Henry Newman, Samuel Wilberforce, and Benjamin Jowett were among his adversaries. This is the first study of Golightly's controversial career.
The American Success Myth on Film

The American Success Myth on Film

J. Levinson

The Theory of the Leisure Class (London: Oxford University Press, 2008). For a consideration of how Hollywood movies see consumer culture andthe accumulation ofcommodities asthe markers ofsuccess, see DavidDesserand GarthS. Jowett ...
The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers

The Smeatonians: The Society of Civil Engineers

Garth Watson

The lives of the founding members are described as well as the growing status of civil engineering. The book includes original documents and letters.
Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan

Sex and the Slayer: A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan

Lorna Jowett

Warren shows little loyalty to his allies and is early marked as different; he is "evil, " while the other 114 two are just trying to have a (nerdy) good time (Simkin [ 2oo4b: ... and Andrew summons demons, Warren invents gadgets and uses a gun.
How Does Law Matter?

How Does Law Matter?

Bryant G. Garth

The essays in this collection show how law is relevant in both an instrumental and a constitutive sense, as a tool to accomplish particular purposes and as an important force in shaping the everyday worlds in which we live.
The Weathermage

The Weathermage

Linda Smith

Galia Soradotter, a young wizard of the Misty Isles, has a powerful dream telling her that there is something that she must do, while Cat Ashdale wants to find Garth Spellman, and Talisa Thatcher wants to save wrongfully charged Cory Updale ...
Retirement Policy

Retirement Policy

M.M. Rumberg

Somewhere, something always happened and the media hadtobe thereto cover it. Saturday was noexception. Atninea.m., Jeff Garrity, a reporter onTheNew York Times staff,also assigned tothe Washington, DC office, walked in, and saw Garth  ...
Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries, 1710-1820

Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries, 1710-1820

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Wells, Taylor, Jowett, Montgomery (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1 988), 1191. 10 John Freehafer, "John Warburton's lost plays". Studies in Bibliographv 23 (1970): 154-64; 161. 1 1 Robert F. Fleissner raised some of these points in his hitherto ...
The life and a selection from the letters of Henry Venn

The life and a selection from the letters of Henry Venn

Henry Venn

Page Account of Mr. Fletcher 233 To Mr. John Venn. — Congratulations and advice on his going to College 234 To Mr. John Venn. — Further advice on the same subject . 236 To Mr. Henry Jowett. — On the right way of reading the Scriptures ...
Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales

Gothic!: Ten Original Dark Tales

Deborah Noyes

Vampires, ghosts, witches, and haunted houses are featured in this diverse compilation of frightening tales for young readers by various authors, including Joan Aiken, Barry Yourgrau, Neil Gaiman, and Garth Nix.
Access to Justice

Access to Justice

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Nigel J. Balmer Ab Currie Stephen Daniels Jennifer Earl Bryant G. Garth Joanne Martin Masayuki Murayama Kwai Hang Ng Pascoe Pleasence Mary R. Rose Rebecca L. Sandefur Legal Services Research Centre, London, and Faculty of ...
Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and ...

Dealing in Virtue: International Commercial Arbitration and ...

Yves Dezalay

With examples from England, the United States, Sweden, Egypt, Hong Kong, and many other countries, Dezalay and Garth explore how international developments in turn transform domestic methods for handling disputes.
DeathQuest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of ...

DeathQuest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of ...

Robert M. Bohm

New York: Oxford. Stinchcombe, Arthur L., RebeccaAdams, CarolA. Heimer, Kim Lane Scheppele, Tom W. Smith, and D. Garth Taylor (1980) Crime and Punishment—Changing Attitudes in America. San Francisco: Josey–Bass. Streib, Victor L.

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