Laura's Ghost

Laura's Ghost

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  • Author: Courtenay Stallings
  • Publisher: Fayetteville Mafia Press
  • ISBN: 1949024091
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 312

In 1990, the groundbreaking television series Twin Peaks, co-created by David Lynch and Mark Frost, opened with a murder mystery when a beautiful homecoming queen, wrapped in plastic, washed up on a cold and rocky beach. Laura Palmer's character began as a plot device that triggered a small town to face its fractured self. But after three seasons and a film, Laura Palmer is no longer just a plot device. Instead of solely focusing on the murderer, like most traditional storytelling at the time, the audience gets to know the victim, a complex young woman who explores her sexuality and endures incredible abuse. Laura's Ghost: Women Speak About Twin Peaks is an examination of Laura Palmer's legacy on the 30th anniversary of Twin Peaks. Palmer's character was one of the few frank and horrific representations of sexual abuse victims which did not diminish the strength and complexity of the victim. Sheryl Lee, who played Laura Palmer, discusses the challenges of the role and how it has impacted herself as well as women she has met over the years, many of whom are survivors of sexual abuse. The role demanded Lee give all of her vulnerability as an actor to this role. This role is one she cannot escape, one with which she will forever be identified. It's a role that still haunts her today. For many women, this character represents them. Here was a woman who was not just a victim, but who was owning her sexuality as well—a woman coming into her own and discovering her sources of power. This book is a reckoning in which women from the show and community speak about grief, mischief, humor, sexuality, strength, weakness, wickedness, and survival.


LAURA ROSEWOODS'DIARY OF DEATH

LAURA ROSEWOODS'DIARY OF DEATH

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  • Author: RICHARD SATTANNI
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1387577417
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 71

A most provocative spine tingling collection of characters out of the "Laura Rosewood"dynasty. They all were meant to come here but never meant to live. Read how everyone finds their faith and the gory outcome of each character


A MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY

A MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY

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  • Author: RICHARD SATTANNI
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1387360566
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72

As you read each page you will be drawn into this book of short stories until the end.


Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts

Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts

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  • Author: Louise Child
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350087114
  • Category : Religion
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 195

Drawing from social theory and the anthropology of religion, this book explores popular media's fascination with dreams, vampires, demons, ghosts and spirits. Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts does so in the light of contemporary animist studies of societies in which other-than-human persons are not merely a source of entertainment, but a lived social reality. Films and television programs explored include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Truly Madly Deeply and the films of Hitchcock. Louise Child draws attention to how they both depict and challenge ideas and practices rooted in psychology, while quality television has also facilitated a wave of programming that can explore the interaction of characters in complex social worlds over time. In addition to drawing on theories of film from Freudian psychology and feminist theory, Dreams, Vampires and Ghosts uses approaches derived from a combination of Jungian film studies and anthropology that offer fresh insights for exploring film and television. This book draws attention to explicit and subtle ways in which cinematic narratives engage with myth and religion while at the same time exploring collective dimensions to social and personal life. It advances new developments in genre studies and gender as well as contributing to the growing field of implicit religion using in-depth analyses of communicative dreaming, the shadow, and mystical lovers in film and television.


Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards

Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards

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  • Author: Susan Tan
  • Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
  • ISBN: 1250797012
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 167

"Susan Tan's writing is funny, fun, and hits straight to the heart."—Christina Soontorvat, two-time Newbery Honor recipient From APALA Honor award-winning author Susan Tan, a middle-grade novel about a girl who must overcome her worries to find the truth behind her town's urban legend. Moving to a new town is never easy, but it’s even harder when you’re dealing with a stepdad who just left and a mom who can’t get out of bed long enough to find a new job. But Mo doesn’t have time to dwell on these things. Because it’s her job to keep her family together. To keep them safe. So when an elephant starts to haunt her dreams—and a mysterious spirit attacks her home—Mo knows it’s up to her to intervene before things get too dangerous. With her new friend, Nathaniel, she embarks on an investigation, searching for the truth about the town, its people, and their history. But things are much more complicated and tangled than she thought. To find out what’s really going on, Mo might have to live a little dangerously after all.


Field of the Stranger

Field of the Stranger

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  • Author: Olivia Robertson
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Ireland
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296


Ghosts Like Us

Ghosts Like Us

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  • Author: Inez Baranay
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 1329400607
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 185

3 eras, 3 women: linked by Berlin, performance art, and a poem In the 1890s young poet Erika Kieler attends the most progressive artistic salon in Berlin to perform her poem inspired by a visitor from the capital of the Ottoman Empire. In 1989, just before the Wall comes down, punk artist Trudi Zahn performs her own version of the same poem in an East Berlin club. And in 2009 Lottie Hoffmann prepares to perform Trudi's work at a cabaret for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story explores the drive for women's authentic creativity and personal freedom, cross-cultural exchange, interpretations of history, artistic influence, and a universe in which ghosts appear.


Women and Ghosts

Women and Ghosts

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  • Author: Alison Lurie
  • Publisher: Nan A. Talese
  • ISBN: 0307828565
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 192

The author of The War Between the Tates and the Pulitzer prize-winning Foreign Affairs now brings her irresistible wit to the ghost story. In nine spooky tales, Alison Lurie writes of women haunted by ghosts both literal and metaphorical: A woman about to marry Mr. Right is visited by the spirit of his first wife; a dead fiancé haunts a foreign service officer every time she has an intimate moment with another man; the ghost of a girl in a Halloween costume disconcerts the perfect housewife. A secretary on a diet begins to see obese people everywhere she looks; a self-conscious poet is shadowed by her intrusive doppelganger; and a capricious, malevolent spirit seems to have inhabited an acquisitive matron’s prized piece of furniture. Delightfully strange and beautifully told, these nine tales show Alison Lurie at her luminous best.


Chasing a Ghost

Chasing a Ghost

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  • Author: D. A Ravenscroft
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 0244205299
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 432


The Ghost of Cattingham Hall

The Ghost of Cattingham Hall

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  • Author: Amber A. Cross
  • Publisher: Lulu.com
  • ISBN: 132654585X
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 274

While staying with her Aunt Lydia at Cattingham Hall Maddie Johnson conducts a seance with her friend Sam. They make contact with Anna, a young girl who may be the ghost who haunts the Hall, and Maddie forms a deep bond with her despite the hundreds of years that separate them. Anna warns Maddie that the witches who trapped her long ago are hunting for new souls, and Maddie fears they might be after her because she can communicate with Anna across time. But although the witches attack Maddie it is not her they want. It is someone who is a natural witch. Who will help Lydia defend her beloved home from the evil witches who are using their deadly power and dark arts to attack the Hall? Can Anna finally be laid to rest in time? And how does the secret room help Lydia save the Hall from the clutches of her scheming brother-in-law?