Not a mere romance... But a haunted inheritance...A forgotten Princess, a Queen... A woman learning how to live with history inside her...When twenty-seven-year-old Josie Anna Atcheson leaves behind her family's wealth and expectations in New Jersey, she arrives in New Orleans seeking a new life and new experiences. What she inherits instead is a shuttered novelty shop in the French Quarter... along with its sealed relics, restless history, and a legacy she never asked for....

The Gothic Lady (Love Story) A Novel...Darkness was never meant to save her... until love found her anyway...JoAnna Lynn has always felt out of place... too quiet, too intense, too different for the small-town world that never tried to understand her...After the loss of her mother, she wraps herself in mere shadow, finding comfort in black roses, solitude, and the fragile safety of keeping her heart...

The Atcheson-Barnes Manor stands at the edge of New Orleans' French Quarter... a house of roses and butterflies, of whispers and sorrow. Two centuries ago, Elizabeth Atcheson was struck down by her fiancé, Victor Collins, in a storm of betrayal and rage. Her ghost never left...When novelist, JoyAnna Blackenship inherits the Manor generations later, she finds Elizabeth's diary and begins to write her tragic tale. But the more JoyAnna writes, the more she feels the ghost's mere prese...

A Sugar Skull Love (A Poem in Story) is a gothic, epic poem set in the heart of New Orleans, the French Quarter, during the Day of the Dead parade...Told in lyrical, poetic, flowing verses...It follows the tragic love story of Julia... Of Henry...Amid the swirling masks, roses, and music of the French Quarter, the two are bound together by a vow so fierce it defies even death itself...As their love burns brighter than the candles on the altars, it also curse...

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 inclu...

′This is an Excellent textbook and a valuable addition to the growing field of ′how to′ books providing advice and guidance for practitioners and students wishing to undertake fieldwork of an ethnographic nature.... this books deserves to be high on your reading list′- Active Learning in Higher Education`Gray′s book tells us an important story, starting from the epistemological and methodological background of a number of key studies in the Birgmingham trad...

The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television.In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these entertainment facilities were used within their households, and what kinds of programmes and films they themselves particularly enjoyed.Ann Gray draws heavily on verbatim quotes from ...

In recent years non-fiction history programmes have flourished on television. This interdisciplinary study of history programming identifies and examines different genres employed by producers and tracks their commissioning, production, marketing and distribution histories.With comparative references to other European nations and North America, the authors focus on British history programming over the last two decades and analyse the relationship between the academy and media profe...

From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.Shaun Moores draws on ideas from a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and expertly connects the analysis of media and communications with key themes in contemporary social theory.Examining core issues of time and space, Moores also examines mat...

Before Saturday March 26th 2005, "Doctor Who" had been off the air as a regular, new TV series for more than fifteen years; until a production team led by Russell T. Davies re-imagined the programme so successfully, so triumphantly, that it's become an instant Christmas tradition, a BAFTA winner, an international 'superbrand' and a number one rated show. It's even been credited with reinventing family TV. This is the first full-length book to explore the 'new Who' phenomenon through to the...

Contemporary British Television Crime Drama examines one of the medium’s most popular genres and places it within its historical and industrial context. The television crime drama has proved itself capable of numerous generic reinventions and continues to enjoy some of the highest viewing figures. Crime drama offers audiences stories of right and wrong, moral authority asserted and resisted, and professionals and criminals, doing so in ways that are often highly entertaining, innovative, a...

Come on Down represents an introduction to popular media culture in Britain since 1945. It discusses the ways in which popular culture can be studied, understood and appreciated, and covers its key analytical issues and some of its most important forms and processes. The contributors analyse some of popular culture's leading and most representative expressions such as TV soaps, quizzes and game shows, TV for children, media treatment of the monarchy, Pop Music, Comedy, Advertising, Consume...