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Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect

Deborah Jermyn

Jermyn places the series in the context of earlier TV crime series, particularly those such as Juliet Bravo, The Gentle Touch and Cagney& Lacey that featured female detectives, and traces its influence on those such as Silent Witness and ...
Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media

Women’s Magazines in Print and New Media

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®Introduction, ̄. in Understanding 'Reality' Television, eds. Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn (London: Routledge, 2004), 22. 13. Goody, Jade Fighting to the End, 100. 14. Ibid., 2. 15.
Sex and the City

Sex and the City

Deborah Jermyn

Examines the full run of Sex and the City and its production background, place in television history, innovations to the genre, and reception.
Nancy Meyers

Nancy Meyers

Deborah Jermyn

This book proposes that Meyers' box-office success, the consistency of style and theme across her films, and the breadth of her body of work as a writer/producer/director across more than three decades at the forefront of Hollywood, (thus ...
The Television Genre Book

The Television Genre Book

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Holmes, Su (2004), '“All You've Got to Worry About is the Task, Having a Cup of Tea, and Doing a Bit of Sunbathing”: Approaching Celebrity in Big Brother', in Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn (eds), Understanding Reality Television, London ...
Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope

Reading CSI: Crime TV Under the Microscope

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BODY MATTERS Realism, Spectacle and the Corpse In CSI Deborah Jermyn Writing about Lynda La Plante's crime drama series Prime Suspect a decade after it was first broadcast in the UK, I argued in an article published in 2003 that the ...
Entertaining television: The BBC and popular television ...

Entertaining television: The BBC and popular television ...

Su Holmes

Holmes, Su (2004a) “'All you've got to worry about is the task, having a cup of tea, and what you're going to eat for dinner': Approaching Celebrity in Big Brother”, in Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn (eds.), Understanding Reality Television ...
Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema

Falling in Love Again: Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema

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Romantic Comedy in Contemporary Cinema Stacey Abbott, Deborah Jermyn. Published in 2009 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America ...
Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV

Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV

Deborah Jermyn

Trachtenburg, Alan (1980) Classic Essays on Photography, New Haven, CT: Leete's Island Books. Tulloch, John (2000) '"Landscapes of Fear": Public Places, Fear of Crime and the Media', in Stuart Allan, Gill Branston and Cynthia Carter ( eds) ...
The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor

The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor

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CONTENTS Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Hollywood Transgressor: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow Deborah Jermyn & Sean Redmond BIGELOWS MOVING CANVAS 'Momentum and Design': Interview with Kathryn Bigelow ...
Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring ...

Margaret Wheatley

i, Aeron Miller xii, Meg Wheatley xviii, DanielSeguin.ca 3, Deborah Frieze 6, Paul Winder 9, Deborah Frieze 1617, Illustration by Todd Stewart 18, Deborah Frieze 21, Deborah Frieze 23, Alex Lewin 23, Deborah Frieze 26, Aerin Dunford 26, ...
When I Met the Wolf Girls

When I Met the Wolf Girls

Deborah Noyes

Deborah Noyes. Text copyright © 2007 by Deborah Noyes Illustrations copyright © 2007 by August Hall All rights reserved. ... Book design by Carol Goldenberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Noyes, Deborah. When I met  ...
Deborah

Deborah

Carol Fitzpatrick

God has called Deborah to lead the people of Israel out of captivity. But how can just one woman do this? Find out how God worked through Deborah to save His people. Illustrated.
Swallowing Geography

Swallowing Geography

Deborah Levy

Swallowing Geography is a stunning early novel by the Man Booker-shortlisted Deborah Levy. Embedded in this beautifully written novel is Deborah Levy's gift for blending fairytale with biting satire.
First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New ...

First We Take Manhattan: Four American Women and the New ...

Diana Theodores

'3 Deborah Jowitt, Dance Beat, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., 1977, “Preface”, p. v. '3 Deborah Jowitt, The Dance in Mind, Boston: David Godine, 1985, “Preface ”, p. x. '3 Nancy Goldner, The Stravinsky Festival of the New York. The Deborah ...
The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

The Handbook of Discourse Analysis

Deborah Tannen

In Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen, and Heidi Hamilton, eds., The Handbook of Discourse Analysis. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 1–11. Intertextuality in Discourse 57 performance: dialogic observations. Journal of Linguistic JWST555 -01 ...
Waiting for Deborah

Waiting for Deborah

Betty Neels

When she is rescued by consultant Sir James Marlow, who seems to have taken an interest in her, Deborah, sorely lacking in self-confidence, vows to discover his true motives. Reissue.
Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese ...

Voices from the Whirlwind: An Oral History of the Chinese ...

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38 Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco A TOUGH GUY 55 Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco A SENIOR RED GUARD'S APOLOGIA 6} Translated by Deborah Cao and Lawrence Tedesco THE 3,650 DAYS ...
Swimming Home

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy

Both profound and thrilling, Deborah Levy explores what it means to be alive and how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves.
Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials

Machine Embroidery on Difficult Materials

Deborah Jones

Deborah Jones has embroidered it all, from slippery synthetic sheers to the thickest velvet.
One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond ...

One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond ...

Deborah Noyes

Our Lives with Animals : the Human-animal Bond in Myth, History, Science, and Story Deborah Noyes. Copyright text and photographs © 2006 by Deborah Noyes Nineteenth'century line art by Georges Cuvier Excerpt from "The Long ...
Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

Vegetarian Suppers from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

Deborah Madison

These are recipes to savor throughout the week—quick weekday meals as well as more leisurely weekend or company fare—and throughout the year.
You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of ...

You're the Only One I Can Tell: Inside the Language of ...

Deborah Tannen

Deborah Tannen's bestselling You Just Don't Understand: Conversations Between Women and Men made us aware of the deep and subtle meanings behind the words we say.
Deborah Kerr: A Biography

Deborah Kerr: A Biography

Michelangelo Capua

"Scotland-born actress Deborah Kerr (1921-2007) provided the cinema with memorable studies of English gentility.
Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal

Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal

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Guy Redden One of the concerns of recent studies of popular television has been to try to develop understandings of cultural democratization (Holmes and Jermyn 2004, 9). Much contemporary lifestyle programming revolves around the ...
The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

The Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

Matthew Beedham

Deborah Guth: Distortions Reflected Clear In one of the most helpful discussions of the novel, Deborah Guth argues that Stevens does eventually see what he has lost. She begins, however, with an analysis of what the novel says without ...
The Ghosts of Kerfol

The Ghosts of Kerfol

Deborah Noyes

In this remarkable collection of intertwining short stories, Deborah Noyes takes us back to the haunted manor and tells us Anne de Barrigan's story through the sympathetic eyes of her servant girl.
Amor y Tacos: Modern Mexican Tacos, Margaritas, and Antojitos

Amor y Tacos: Modern Mexican Tacos, Margaritas, and Antojitos

Deborah Schneider

Libraryof Congress CataloginginPublication Data: Schneider, Deborah M. Amory tacos: modern Mexican tacos, margaritas, and antojitos / by Deborah Schneider. p. cm. ISBN 9781584798248 1. Tacos.2. Appetizers. 3. Cocktails. 4. Cookery ...
On Language and Sexual Politics

On Language and Sexual Politics

Deborah Cameron

This collection of articles presents a selection of Deborah Cameron’s work on language, gender and sex in one single volume.
Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the ...

Braceros: Migrant Citizens and Transnational Subjects in the ...

Deborah Cohen

In Braceros, Deborah Cohen asks why these migrants provoked so much concern and anxiety in the United States and what the Mexican government expected to gain in participating in the program.

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