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Women's History Review: Introduction (2008)
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Holden, K., Hannam, J., & Froide, A. (2008). Women's History Review: Introduction. Women's History Review, 17(3), 313-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612020801924084

This article is an introduction to a special issue on the history of single women based on papers given at conference held in June 2006 at the University of the West of England, entitled ‘Single Women in History 1000–2000’. The analysis is based on o... Read More about Women's History Review: Introduction.

Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer (2008)
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Hammond, A. (2008). Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer. History of Photography, 32(1), 51-58. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290701723238

Ansel Adams's photographic career was paralleled by his desire to achieve the finest quality of photomechanical reproduction of his images for his many fine printed books. For thirty years, he relied upon letterpress halftone to recreate the aestheti... Read More about Ansel Adams and George Waters: Photographer and printer.

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature (2008)
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Hammond, A. (2008). Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature. History of Photography, 32(4), 301. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087290802315736

Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe, although committed realist artists using straightforward photographic technique and an objective style of painting, transfigured the natural scene artistically to express profoundly metaphysical responses to nature.... Read More about Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe: On the intangible in art and nature.

Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction (2008)
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Ballinger, G. (2008). Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction. Gothic Studies, 10(2), 35-50

In recent years Dickens's use of Gothic has been the focus of some diverse and absorbing critical interpretations. This paper seeks to address in more detail the ways in which Gothic features in Dickens's various responses to the law in his work. Sce... Read More about Haunting the law: Aspects of gothic in Dickens's fiction.

Review of Theatre as witness: Three testimonial plays from South Africa, by Yael Farber (2008)
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Nevitt, L. (2008). Review of Theatre as witness: Three testimonial plays from South Africa, by Yael Farber. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 13(3), 377-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569780802410731

Review of published plays, drawing also on extracts in performance and interviews with the director and performers, all of which took place at the launch of the book.

Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language (2008)
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Milton, J., Meara, P., Richards, B., Malvern, D., Daller, H. M., Treffers-Daller, J., & Daller, M. (. (2008). Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language. Journal of French Language Studies, 18(3), 269-276. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095926950800344X

This is the first volume which exclusively focuses on vocabulary acquisition of L2 learners of French. All other volumes on the L2 acquisition of French have so far ignored this dimension. The issue is timely, because of the growing importance of voc... Read More about Introduction: Special issue on knowledge and use of the lexicon in French as a second language.

Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words (2008)
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Tidball, F., & Treffers-Daller, J. (2008). Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words. Journal of French Language Studies, 18(3), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959269508003463

In this paper we study different aspects of lexical richness in narratives of British learners of French. In particular we focus on different ways of measuring lexical sophistication. We compare the power of three different operationalisations of the... Read More about Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: What frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words.

Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page (2008)
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Hammond, A. (2008). Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page

Despite the separate hand-made status generally attributed to the artist’s book, its study yields insights into the more commercially generated photographic book. This essay uses the examples of books by three 20th century photographers – Dorothea La... Read More about Photography and the sequence: The image as poetry, page by page.

When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime (2008)
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Tuck, G. (2008). When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime. Science Fiction Film and Television, 1(2), 249-273. https://doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.1.2.4

This paper explores CGI as a mode of commodity consumption and asks to what extent the consumption of spectacle mimics the notion of the ‘sublime’ and to what extent this ‘sublime’ status can be applied to the commodity form more generally. In parti... Read More about When more is less: CGI, spectacle and the capitalist sublime.

Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias (2008)
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Glascock, J., Livesay, C., & Ruggiero, T. (2008). Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias. Journal of Media and Religion, 7(4), 256-270. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348420802429554

This study sought to investigate the influence of religious involvement (religious partisanship, religiosity, and religious service attendance) as well as demographic factors (sex, ethnicity, and age) on the perception of media coverage of a controve... Read More about Religious involvement, audience demographics, and media bias.

The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives (2008)
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Seale, C., & Charteris-Black, J. (2008). The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives. Ageing and Society, 28(07), 1025-1045. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X0800737X

Recognition of the greater capacity of older women to draw on supportive social networks has now supplemented an earlier focus of research into gender and ageing which portrayed older men as a 'privileged gerontocracy' because of their greater access... Read More about The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives.

The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair (2008)
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Hanks, P. (2008). The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair. International Journal of Lexicography, 21(3), 219-229. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecn031

John Sinclair opened up possibilities for new kinds of dictionaries. He assigned a central role to collocations and phraseology, insisting on close attention to textual evidence coupled with a broad theoretical perspective and ruthless jettisoning of... Read More about The lexicographical legacy of John Sinclair.

Specifying colour and maintaining colour accuracy for 3D printing (2008)
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Parraman, C., Walters, P., Huson, D., & Reid, B. (2008). Specifying colour and maintaining colour accuracy for 3D printing. Proceedings of SPIE, 6805, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766540

Advances in rapid prototyping technologies have led to the emergence of three-dimensional printers which can fabricate physical artefacts, including the application of surface colours. In light of these developments, this paper asserts that the need... Read More about Specifying colour and maintaining colour accuracy for 3D printing.

Colour in flux: Describing and printing colour in art (2008)
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Parraman, C. (2008). Colour in flux: Describing and printing colour in art. Proceedings of SPIE, 6807, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766612

This presentation will describe artists, practitioners and scientists, who were interested in developing a deeper psychological, emotional and practical understanding of the human visual system who were working with wavelength, paint and other materi... Read More about Colour in flux: Describing and printing colour in art.

The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives (2008)
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Seale, C., & Charteris-Black, J. (2008). The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives. Sociology, 42(3), 453-469. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038508088835

Perspectives on gender and identity that emphasize variability of performance, local context and individual agency have displaced earlier paradigms.These are now perceived to have supported gender stereotypes and language ideologies by emphasizing ge... Read More about The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives.