Claire Lynch's Books

Eraserhead

By: Claire Henry

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A surreal and darkly humorous vision, David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) has been recognised as a cult classic since its breakout success as a midnight movie in the late 1970s. Claire Henry's study of the film takes us into its netherworld, providing a detailed account of its production history, its exhibition and reception, and its elusive meanings. Using original archival research, she traces how Lynch took his nightmare of Philadelphia to the City of Dreams, infusing his LA-shot film with the industrial cityscapes and sounds of the Callowhill district. Henry then engages with Eraserhead's irresistible inscrutability and advances a fresh interpretation, reframing auteurism to centre Lynch's creative processes as a visual artist and Transcendental Meditation practitioner. Finally, she outlines how Lynch's 'dream of dark and troubling things' became a model midnight movie and later grew in reputation and influence across broader film culture. From the opening chapter on Eraserhead's famous 'baby' to the final chapter on the film's tentacular influence, Henry's compelling and authoritative account offers illuminating new perspectives on the making and meaning of the film and its legacy. Through an in-depth analysis of the film's rich mise en scène, cinematography, sound and its embeddedness in visual art and screen culture, Henry not only affirms the film's significance as Lynch's first feature, but also advances a wider case for appreciating its status as a film classic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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183902562X

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9781839025624

THE CEO'S SCANDALOUS AFFAIR

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Roxanne St. Claire,Yukako Midori

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THE CEO'S SCANDALOUS AFFAIR

Mills & Boon Comics

By: Roxanne St. Claire,Yukako Midori

Anna is a secretary in a Miami company. Her boss, Parker, is a good-looking man. Needless to say, she is attracted to him, but she never lets it show. One day Parker has a family meeting to discuss leadership of the company after his father’s sudden death. After the family meeting, Parker decides to go to London on a whim and tells Anna to come with him. Anna can’t help but feel excited by his invitation but reminds herself that he’s still her boss. Little does she know that he’s begun to have feelings for her, too!

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Harlequin / SB Creative

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4596287767

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9784596287762

Embodying the Dead

Writing, Playing, Performing

By: Claire Hind,Gary Winters

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Embodying the Dead

Writing, Playing, Performing

By: Claire Hind,Gary Winters

Where do we find the dead? Do the dead appear in our dreams? What is it like to play dead? This book is an exciting exploration of the relationship between death and play in performance. Exploring a range of artists and creative disciplines that remember, personify and re-imagine the dead, it playfully unpacks the psychoanalytic concepts of the Death Drive, Desire and the Uncanny as a way of thinking about performance. Embodying the Dead draws on work of Gary Winters and Claire Hind and the various qualities of deadness found in their projects. The authors' work includes live art, theatre, installation, Super 8mm film, walking arts practice and durational performance. This book includes scripts and scores of their performances, original creative texts, interviews with internationally renowned artists and a series of practice-led research tasks to support readers creating their own imaginative performance work. Rich in creative and critical content, this book is ideal for students of drama, theatre and performance studies who have an interest in devised theatre, theatre making, writing for performance and intermedial practice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350316636

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9781350316638

Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age

By: Claire Copper,Alex Gibson,Deborah Hallam

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Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age

By: Claire Copper,Alex Gibson,Deborah Hallam

Cups are the least studied of all Bronze Age funerary ceramics and their interpretations are still based on antiquarian speculation. This book presents the first study of these often highly decorated items including a fully referenced and illustrated national corpus that will form the basis for future studies.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803271671

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9781803271675

The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914

By: Claire L. Jones

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The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914

By: Claire L. Jones

By the late nineteenth century, advances in medical knowledge, technology and pharmaceuticals led to the development of a thriving commercial industry. The medical trade catalogue became one of the most important means of promoting the latest tools and techniques to practitioners. Drawing on over 400 catalogues produced between 1870 and 1914, Jones presents a study of the changing nature of medical professionalism. She examines the use of the catalogue in connecting the previously separate worlds of medicine and commerce and discusses its importance to the study of print history more widely.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822981750

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9780822981756

Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860

The Legacy of Charlotte Smith

By: Claire Knowles

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Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860

The Legacy of Charlotte Smith

By: Claire Knowles

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with critical hostility by a literary culture that valorised sincerity. This sets the stage for Charlotte Smith, who pioneers an autobiographical approach to poetic production that places increased emphasis on the connection between the poet's physical body and her body of work. Knowles shows the poets Susan Evance, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning advancing Smith's poetic strategy as they seek to elicit a powerful sympathetic response from readers by highlighting a connection between their actual suffering and the production of poetry. From this environment, a specific tradition in female poetry arises that is identifiable in the work of twentieth-century writers like Sylvia Plath and continues to pertain today. Alongside this new understanding of poetic tradition, Knowles provides an innovative account of the central role of women writers to an emergent late eighteenth-century mass literary culture and traces a crucial discursive shift that takes place in poetic production during this period. She argues that the movement away from the passionate discourse of sensibility in the late eighteenth century to the more contained rhetoric of sentimentality in the early nineteenth had an enormous effect, not only on female poets but also on British literary culture as a whole.

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307

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Routledge

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1317057244

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9781317057246

Envisioning Ireland

W.B. Yeats's Occult Nationalism

By: Claire Nally

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Envisioning Ireland

W.B. Yeats's Occult Nationalism

By: Claire Nally

Although Yeats is an over-theorized author, little attempt has been made to situate his occult works in the political context of 20th-century Ireland. This book provides a methodology for understanding the political and cultural impulses which informed Yeat's engagement with the otherworld.

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Peter Lang

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303911882X

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9783039118823

Higher History: Practice Papers for SQA Exams

By: Simon Wood,Claire Wood

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Higher History: Practice Papers for SQA Exams

By: Simon Wood,Claire Wood

Practise for your SQA exams with three specially-commissioned Hodder Gibson Practice Exam Papers. - Practise with model papers written and checked by experienced markers and examiners - Get extra advice with specially-written study-skills guidance sections - Gain vital extra marks and avoid common mistakes with examiner tips

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Hodder Gibson

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1510413855

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9781510413856

When Men Fell from the Sky

Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe

By: Claire Andrieu

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When Men Fell from the Sky

Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe

By: Claire Andrieu

Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. When Men Fell from the Sky is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an insurrection nipped in the bud, that the 'People's War' in Britain was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the 'racial community of the people' had in fact become a social reality with Allied airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war 'at home'.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009266691

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9781009266697

Cyber Ireland

Text, Image, Culture

By: C. Lynch

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Cyber Ireland

Text, Image, Culture

By: C. Lynch

Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Bringing together such varied themes as Celtic mythology in video games, Joycean hypertexts and virtual reality Irish tourism, the book introduces a new strand of Irish studies for the twenty-first century.

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Springer

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1137386541

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9781137386540

Online Learning and its Users

Lessons for Higher Education

By: Claire McAvinia

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Online Learning and its Users

Lessons for Higher Education

By: Claire McAvinia

Online Learning and Its Users: Lessons for Higher Education re-examines the impact of learning technologies in higher education. The book focuses particularly on the introduction and mainstreaming of one of the most widely used, the virtual learning environment (VLE) or learning management system (LMS). The book presents an activity theoretic analysis of the VLE's adoption, drawing on research into this process at a range of higher education institutions. Through analysis and discussion of the activities of managers, lecturers, and learners using the VLE, lessons are identified to inform future initiatives including the implementation of massive open online courses (MOOCs). A replicable research design is included and explained to support evaluation and analysis of the use of online learning in other settings. The book questions accepted views of the place of technologies in higher education, arguing that there has been a repeated cycle of hype and disappointment accompanying the development of online learning. While much research has documented this cycle, finding new strategies to break it has proved to be a more difficult challenge. Why has technology not made more impact? Are lecturers going to be left behind by their own students in the use of digital technologies? Why have we seen costly and time-consuming failures? This book argues that we can answer these questions by heeding the lessons from previous experiences with the VLE and early iterations of the MOOC. More importantly, we can begin to ask new and different questions for the future to ensure better outcomes for our institutions and ultimately our learners. - Presents institution-wide analysis of the adoption of a key educational technology for higher education, validated across multiple sites, to support deeper understanding of the use of learning technologies in context - Describes Activity Theory and presents a replicable model to operationalise it for investigations of the use of online learning in higher education and other settings - Provides a unique perspective on the historical experience of VLE adoption and mainstreaming to identify important insights and essential lessons for the future

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Chandos Publishing

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0081006330

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9780081006337

A Teen Guide to Buying Stocks

By: Claire O'Neal

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A Teen Guide to Buying Stocks

By: Claire O'Neal

Despite spectacular stock market highs and lows, most Americans today hold stock, especially the educated and the very rich. Anybody with a little spare change, even young people, can invest in the stock market. Kids and teens may not have Warren Buffett's billions, but thanks to young age—and the power of compounding—investing even a little money early on can bring a huge payday later. Learn how to buy and sell stocks online, how to pick winning stocks, and how to decode stock charts like a pro, from EPS to P/E to funny ticker symbols like YUM! With a little research, strategy, and patience, even kids can become savvy investors.

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Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.

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1612284876

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9781612284873

Little Book of Tropical Drinks

By: Rosa Mashiter,Claire Clifton,Chronicle Books

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Little Book of Tropical Drinks

By: Rosa Mashiter,Claire Clifton,Chronicle Books

Bargain Books are non-returnable.In the popular tradition of The Art of the Cocktail, this classic little volume includes recipes for drinks made with vodka, rum, gin, tequila, and brandy.

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Chronicle Books (CA)

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0811810402

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9780811810401

Parents Under Siege

Why You are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life

By: James Garbarino,Claire Bedard

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Parents Under Siege

Why You are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life

By: James Garbarino,Claire Bedard

Offers advice and strategies for successful and effective parenting, from building character, confidence, and trust to establishing authority.

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0743201345

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9780743201346

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Eraserhead

Eraserhead

THE CEO'S SCANDALOUS AFFAIR

THE CEO'S SCANDALOUS AFFAIR

Embodying the Dead

Embodying the Dead

Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age

Funerary and Related Cups of the British Bronze Age

The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914

The Medical Trade Catalogue in Britain, 1870-1914

Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860

Sensibility and Female Poetic Tradition, 1780–1860

Envisioning Ireland

Envisioning Ireland

Higher History: Practice Papers for SQA Exams

Higher History: Practice Papers for SQA Exams

When Men Fell from the Sky

When Men Fell from the Sky

Cyber Ireland

Cyber Ireland

Online Learning and its Users

Online Learning and its Users

A Teen Guide to Buying Stocks

A Teen Guide to Buying Stocks

Little Book of Tropical Drinks

Little Book of Tropical Drinks

Parents Under Siege

Parents Under Siege

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