The Young Elizabeth by Alison PlowdenRequirements: .ePUB reader, 699 KBOverview: Elizabeth I is perhaps England’s most famous monarch. Born in 1533, the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth was heir to her father’s title, then disinherited and finally imprisoned her half sister Mary. Her childhood was one of fear […]
The Scene of Violence: Cinema, Crime, Affect by Alison Young Requirements: .PDF reader, 6 MBOverview: In the contemporary fascination with images of crime, violence gets under our skin and keeps us enthralled. The Scene of Violence explores the spectator’s encounter with the cinematic scene of violence – rape and revenge, homicide and serial killing, torture […]
For Alison: The Murder of a Young Journalist and a Father’s Fight for Gun Safety by Andy Parker , Tim KaineRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.2 MBOverview: Renowned activist Andy Parker’s account of the story that shocked America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his extraordinary ensuing fight for commonsense gun […]
The Young Victoria by Alison PlowdenRequirements: .ePUB reader, 555 KBOverview: I delight in this work’, wrote the young Victoria shortly after she became Queen. She was an engaging creature, high-spirited and eager to be ‘amused’. But her early years were difficult ones. Fatherless from the age of eight months, she was brought up at Kensington […]
Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law by Alison YoungRequirements: .PDF reader, 4.7 mbOverview: Art, value, law – the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the […]