Alison Griffiths: 4 books
Shivers Down Your Spine
Cinema, Museums, and the Immersive View
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2008
From the architectural spectacle of the medieval cathedral and the romantic sublime of the nineteenth-century panorama to the techno-fetishism of today's London Science Museum, humans have gained a deeper understanding of the natural world through highly illusionistic representations that engender...
Carceral Fantasies
Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies tells the little-known story of how cinema found a home in the U.S. penitentiary system and how the prison emerged as a setting and narrative trope in modern cinema. Focusing on films shown in prisons before...
Wild Horse Annie and the Last of the Mustangs
The Life of Velma Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
The true story of the intrepid woman whose life-long determination to protect America’s mustangs captured the heart of the country.
In 1950, Velma Johnston was a thirty-eight-year-old secretary enroute to work near Reno, Nevada, when she came upon a truck of battered wild horses that had...
by Rachel Abbott, Sharon Bolton, Jane Casey
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by bestselling, award-winning female crime writers from the Killer Women crime-writing collective. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as twenty deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places...
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