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Helen Wood
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Helen Wood
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A lively, engaging book that takes it’s own line, but it is
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Liz (Hardcover)
Helen Wood
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Liz has a quiet determination to overcome the obstacles that have
beset her with the collapse of her husband's property business when
the economic climate drastically struck. She has many new hurdles
to surmount before she finds happiness, but through it all is still
the lovely warm hearted girl.
T?his is the first book about reality television to make class its
central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed'
behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty,
and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap,
class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic
discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the
editors spell out how reality television - by making visible new
forms of performance labour - invites a serious discussion of
class. Internationally-renowned media scholars and sociologists
explore the ways in which 'ordinary people' enter the television
frame, and how discourses of class are routed through national
concerns and fears. Through an analysis of programmes such as
Celebrity Big Brother, The Hills, MasterChef and Ladette to Lady,
the contributors tackle common assumptions in television analysis
to show how the mere fact of 'being on tv' is not a straightforward
route to recognition, democracy, mobility or value; how new moral
economies are emerging in which judgement and aspiration are
normalised; and that class relationships are key dramatic devices
in the spectacle of television entertainment.
Ti?his is the first book about reality television to make class its
central focus. Despite popular and media debate about the 'classed'
behaviour of reality stars such as Jade Goody and Shilpa Shetty,
and the class confrontations depicted in shows such as Wife Swap,
class politics have been overlooked in much political and academic
discussion of reality television. In their introduction, the
editors spell out how reality television -- by making visible new
forms of performance labour -- invites a serious discussion of
class. Internationally-renowned media scholars and sociologists
explore the ways in which 'ordinary people' enter the television
frame, and how discourses of class are routed through national
concerns and fears. Through an analysis of programmes such as
Celebrity Big Brother, The Hills, MasterChef and Ladette to Lady,
the contributors tackle common assumptions in television analysis
to show how the mere fact of 'being on tv' is not a straightforward
route to recognition, democracy, mobility or value; how new moral
economies are emerging in which judgement and aspiration are
normalised; and that class relationships are key dramatic devices
in the spectacle of television entertainment.
Television for Women brings together emerging and established
scholars to reconsider the question of 'television for women'. In
the context of the 2000s, when the potential meanings of both terms
have expanded and changed so significantly, in what ways might the
concept of programming, addressed explicitly to a group identified
by gender still matter? The essays in this collection take the
existing scholarship in this field in significant new directions.
They expand its reach in terms of territory (looking beyond, for
example, the paradigmatic Anglo-American axis) and also historical
span. Additionally, whilst the influential methodological formation
of production, text and audience is still visible here, the new
research in Television for Women frequently reconfigures that
relationship. The topics included here are far-reaching; from
television as material culture at the British exhibition in the
first half of the twentieth century, women's roles in television
production past and present, to popular 1960s television such as
The Liver Birds and, in the twenty-first century, highly successful
programmes including Orange is the New Black, Call the Midwife, One
Born Every Minute and Wanted Down Under. This book presents
ground-breaking research on historical and contemporary
relationships between women and television around the world and is
an ideal resource for students of television, media and gender
studies.
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the
schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating
considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which
television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is
matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves
up as television participants for others to watch and criticise.
But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up,
tearing apart, dominating, empathising, humiliating, and seemingly
laying bare their raw emotion for our entertainment? Do we feel sad
when others are sad? Or are we relieved by the knowledge that our
circumstances might be better? As reality television extends into
the experiences of the everyday, it makes dramatic and often
shocking the mundane aspects of our intimate relations, inviting us
as viewers into a volatile arena of mediated morality. This book
addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an
entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between
spectator and performer demanding new tools for capturing
television's relationships with audiences. Rather than asking how
the reality television genre is interpreted as 'text' or
representation the authors investigate the politics of viewer
encounters as interventions, evocations, and more generally
mediated social relations. The authors show how different reactions
can involve viewers in tournaments of value, as women viewers
empathise and struggle to validate their own lives. The authors use
these detailed responses to challenge theories of the self,
governmentality and ideology. A must read for both students and
researchers in audience studies, television studies and media and
communication studies.
Television for Women brings together emerging and established
scholars to reconsider the question of 'television for women'. In
the context of the 2000s, when the potential meanings of both terms
have expanded and changed so significantly, in what ways might the
concept of programming, addressed explicitly to a group identified
by gender still matter? The essays in this collection take the
existing scholarship in this field in significant new directions.
They expand its reach in terms of territory (looking beyond, for
example, the paradigmatic Anglo-American axis) and also historical
span. Additionally, whilst the influential methodological formation
of production, text and audience is still visible here, the new
research in Television for Women frequently reconfigures that
relationship. The topics included here are far-reaching; from
television as material culture at the British exhibition in the
first half of the twentieth century, women's roles in television
production past and present, to popular 1960s television such as
The Liver Birds and, in the twenty-first century, highly successful
programmes including Orange is the New Black, Call the Midwife, One
Born Every Minute and Wanted Down Under. This book presents
ground-breaking research on historical and contemporary
relationships between women and television around the world and is
an ideal resource for students of television, media and gender
studies.
This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical
frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies
and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting
academic research and examples of the 'grounded studies' carried
out under the auspices of the Centre.
This volume is split into four thematic sections that are
introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural
studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall.
The thematic sections are:
- CCCS Founding Moments
- Theoretical Engagements
- Theorising Experience, Exploring Methods
- Grounded Studies.
This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical
frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies
and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting
academic research and examples of the studies carried out under the
auspices of the Centre.
This volume is split into seven thematic sections that are
introduced by key academics working in the field of cultural
studies, and includes a preface by eminent scholar, Stuart Hall.
The thematic sections are:
- Literature and Society
- Popular Culture and Youth Subculture
- Media
- Women's Studies and Feminism
- Race
- History
- Education and Work.
Handwriting Today is a comprehensive cursive handwriting programme.
It removes the need for teaching a pre cursive letter formation, as
it introduces individual letters at Book A level, that have the
identical shape and form of those used at later stages when joining
letters and creating words. It starts with a cursive font and
builds to joins and words quickly. It uses a flowing cursive font
that combines the best of traditional and contemporary fonts to
create an easy to write and easy on the eye writing style. Pupils
find this an easy beginning. It focuses on the flow of letters and
text, and avoids a start-stop writing style, which in turn leads to
illegible writing in later years a smooth flowing style is the
result of using Handwriting Today. It makes it easy for young
children to build their skills, as in the early stages all lower
case letters share the same starting point. Handwriting Today is
available from Book A to Book D: Book A: letters are introduced in
Book A, where young writers practice word shapes and formations
before moving to joins in the following year; Book B: looks at
creating joins and practicing various letter combinations leading
to the writing of words; Book C: builds on joins, combining
multiple joins into words, groups of words and sentences; and, Book
D: provides opportunities for children to practice their writing in
the context of every day usage and cross-curricular themes,
providing for letter and join revision as appropriate. What will
the teacher get with Handwriting Today? It contains over 72
activity pages in each level. It provides regular revision and
consolidation. It offers teacher assessment framework. It features
programme that provide a developmental approach to handwriting. It
includes diversity of resources that allow for individual attention
to pupil progress and a comprehensive approach to differentiation
of the class handwriting programme. It is a comprehensive,
photocopiable teacher's guide. It also offers a demonstration that
can be download. It also provides handwriting software resource for
teachers.
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the
schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating
considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which
television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is
matched equally by the eagerness of audiences to offer themselves
up as television participants for others to watch and criticise.
But how do we react to so many people breaking down, fronting up,
tearing apart, dominating, empathising, humiliating, and seemingly
laying bare their raw emotion for our entertainment? Do we feel sad
when others are sad? Or are we relieved by the knowledge that our
circumstances might be better? As reality television extends into
the experiences of the everyday, it makes dramatic and often
shocking the mundane aspects of our intimate relations, inviting us
as viewers into a volatile arena of mediated morality. This book
addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an
entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between
spectator and performer demanding new tools for capturing
television's relationships with audiences. Rather than asking how
the reality television genre is interpreted as 'text' or
representation the authors investigate the politics of viewer
encounters as interventions, evocations, and more generally
mediated social relations. The authors show how different reactions
can involve viewers in tournaments of value, as women viewers
empathise and struggle to validate their own lives. The authors use
these detailed responses to challenge theories of the self,
governmentality and ideology. A must read for both students and
researchers in audience studies, television studies and media and
communication studies.
The numbers of unmarried cohabiting couples continue to increase,
with the result that the law and practice relating to this area
continues to grow insignificance for family and private client
lawyers. This new edition of Cohabitation: Law Practice and
Precedents has been extensively revised to take account of all
procedural developments, as well as analysis of significant
case-law. Whether preparing a cohabitation contract or pre-nuptial
agreement, drafting wills for cohabiting couples, advising on
rights on the breakdown of a relationship or the death of a
partner, or applying for a personal protection order or a parental
responsibility agreement, practitioners will find authoritative
analysis of the applicable law and expert guidance on procedural
issues. Cohabitation: Law, Practice and Precedents is the only work
on the subject to provide commentary, checklists, procedural guides
and precedents in a single volume making it an invaluable aid to
all practitioners advising unmarried couples.
Handwriting Today is a comprehensive cursive handwriting programme.
It removes the need for teaching a pre cursive letter formation, as
it introduces individual letters at Book A level, that have the
identical shape and form of those used at later stages when joining
letters and creating words. It starts with a cursive font and
builds to joins and words quickly. It uses a flowing cursive font
that combines the best of traditional and contemporary fonts to
create an easy to write and easy on the eye writing style. Pupils
find this an easy beginning. It focuses on the flow of letters and
text, and avoids a start-stop writing style, which in turn leads to
illegible writing in later years a smooth flowing style is the
result of using Handwriting Today. It makes it easy for young
children to build their skills, as in the early stages all lower
case letters share the same starting point. Handwriting Today is
available from Book A to Book D: Book A: letters are introduced in
Book A, where young writers practice word shapes and formations
before moving to joins in the following year; Book B: looks at
creating joins and practicing various letter combinations leading
to the writing of words; Book C: builds on joins, combining
multiple joins into words, groups of words and sentences; and, Book
D: provides opportunities for children to practice their writing in
the context of every day usage and cross-curricular themes,
providing for letter and join revision as appropriate. What will
the teacher get with Handwriting Today? It contains over 72
activity pages in each level. It provides regular revision and
consolidation. It offers teacher assessment framework. It features
programme that provide a developmental approach to handwriting. It
includes diversity of resources that allow for individual attention
to pupil progress and a comprehensive approach to differentiation
of the class handwriting programme. It is a comprehensive,
photocopiable teacher's guide. It also offers a demonstration that
can be download. It also provides handwriting software resource for
teachers.
Title: The Beautiful World and other poems, by Helen J. Wood, Helen
M. Waithman, and Ethel Dawson. Illustrated.Publisher: British
Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the
national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's
largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all
known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound
recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its
collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial
additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating
back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY & DRAMA collection includes
books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The books
reflect the complex and changing role of literature in society,
ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian verse. Containing many
classic works from important dramatists and poets, this collection
has something for every lover of the stage and verse. ++++The below
data was compiled from various identification fields in the
bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an
additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++
British Library Wood, Helen; Dawson, Ethel; 1890]. obl.; 4 .
11650.g.25.
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Liz (Paperback)
Helen Wood
bundle available
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R361
R303
Discovery Miles 3 030
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Liz has a quiet determination to overcome the obstacles that have
beset her with the collapse of her husband's property business when
the economic climate drastically struck. She has many new hurdles
to surmount before she finds happiness, but through it all is still
the lovely warm hearted girl.
This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance
of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current
climate. The wide-ranging chapters consider why the symbolic power
of weddings is intensifying at a time when marriage as an
institution appears to be in decline - and they offer new insights
into the shifting and complex gender politics of contemporary
culture. The collection is a feminist project but does not
straight-forwardly renounce the wedding spectacle. Rather, the
diverse contributions offer close analyses of the myriad forms and
practices of the wedding spectacle, from reality television and
cinematic film to wedding videography and bridal boutiques. Drawing
on feminist and queer theory, the chapters illuminate the
paradoxes, contradictions, disappointments, cruelties and pleasures
that are intimately bound up with the wedding spectacle. Written by
leading and emerging feminist scholars, the chapters range across
different national and cultural contexts to explore how the gender
politics of weddings are changing and adapting to a new cultural
and social landscape. This in-depth analysis of the wedding
spectacle will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of
gender and mass media, cultural studies, feminist studies, and
intercultural communication.
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