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Linda Williams (film Critic), Williams, Linda
Linda Williams may refer to: * Linda Williams, American folk singer in duo Robin and Linda Williams * Linda Williams (singer) (born 1955), Dutch singer * Linda Williams (film scholar) (born 1946), American professor of film studies * Linda M. Williams (born c. 1949), American sociologist and criminologist * Linda Ruth Williams (born 1961), British film studies academic * Linda Hunt Williams Linda Hunt Williams (born August 12, 1948) is an American politician. She was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2016 and she served from 2017 until her resignation on August 31, 2018. A Republican, she represented the 37th ... (born 1948), American politician in the North Carolina House of Representatives [Baidu] |
Robin And Linda Williams
Robin and Linda Williams are a husband-and-wife singer-songwriter folk music duo from Virginia. They met in South Carolina in 1971, and began performing in 1973. The Williamses appeared on Garrison Keillor's ''A Prairie Home Companion'' radio show from 1975. The duo were members of the Hopeful Gospel Quartet with Keillor and Kate MacKenzie. After touring with Mary Chapin Carpenter in 1993, the pair later sang on her Grammy Award-winning album ''Stones in the Road''. ''Sugar for Sugar'' spent 11 weeks in the top 20 of the Americana (music), Americana Chart in the ''Gavin Report'' in 1996. In 2004, they switched labels, recording ''Deeper Waters'' as their first release on Red House Records. The Williamses appeared in the film ''A Prairie Home Companion (film), A Prairie Home Companion''. They appeared on the ''WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour'', hosted by Michael Johnathon. Discography *''Robin & Linda Williams'' (1975) *''Shenandoah Moon'' (1977) *''Welcome Table'' (1978) *''Dixi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Williams (singer)
Linda Williams (born Henriëtte Willems on 11 June 1955) is a Dutch singer, best known for her participation in the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest. Williams was unknown at the time she took part with two songs in the 1981 Dutch Eurovision selection, as a last-minute replacement for singer Oscar Harris, who had had to drop out at short notice. One of her songs, "Het is een wonder" ("It's a Miracle") emerged the winner, sending Williams forward to the 26th Eurovision Song Contest which took place in Dublin on 4 April. "Het is een wonder" finished the evening in ninth place of the 20 entries. Following her Eurovision appearance, Williams released a few singles which passed unnoticed, and soon returned to obscurity. She did however make another appearance on the Eurovision stage in 1999, when along with her daughter Eva-Jane, she was among the backing singers for that year's Belgian entrant, Vanessa Chinitor Vanessa Chinitor (born 13 October 1976, Dendermonde, East Flanders) is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Williams (film Scholar)
Linda Williams (born December 18, 1946) is an American professor of film studies in the departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley. Career Williams graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A in Comparative Literature in 1969, and then earned a PhD at the University of Colorado for her dissertation subsequently published as ''Figures of Desire: A Theory and Analysis of Surrealist Film''. Her main academic areas of interest are: film history, film genre, melodrama, pornography, feminist theory and visual culture; all with an emphasis on women, gender, race, and sexuality. With respect to film genres, she argues that horror, melodrama, and pornography all fall into the category of "body genres", since they are each designed to elicit physical reactions on the part of viewers. Horror is designed to elicit spine-chilling, white-knuckled, eye-bulging terror (often through images of blood); melodramas are designed to elicit sympathy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda M
Linda may refer to: As a name * Linda (given name), a female given name (including a list of people and fictional characters so named) * Linda (singer) (born 1977), stage name of Svetlana Geiman, a Russian singer * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake in 1924), Filipino film actress * Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor * Solomon Linda (1909–1962), South African Zulu musician, singer and composer who wrote the song "Mbube" which later became "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" Places * Linda, California, a census-designated place * Linda, Missouri, a ghost town * Linda, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town * Linda, Georgia, village in Abkhazia, Georgia * Linda, Bashkortostan, village in Bashkortostan, Russia * Linda Valley, Tasmania * 7169 Linda, an asteroid * Linda, a small lunar crater - see Delisle (crater) Music * ''Linda'' (Linda George album), 1974 * ''Linda'' (Linda Clifford album), 1977 * ''Linda'' (Miguel Bosé album), 1978 ** "Linda" (Miguel Bosé song), the title song * " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Ruth Williams
Linda Ruth Williams (born 16 April 1961) is Professor of Film Studies in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter, UK. Her special interests include sexuality and censorship in cinema and literature (she has written widely on pornography, including a book on soft-core cinema), women in film, psychoanalytic theory and D. H. Lawrence. Biography Education Williams went to school in Bristol, where she grew up, and followed her English degree at Sussex University with an MA in Critical Theory. She earned her PhD from Sussex on ''Lawrence, Nietzsche, Freud and Feminism''. Career She has lectured at Liverpool, Manchester and Exeter Universities, and, between 1994 and 2017, at Southampton University. She is currently Professor of Film at the University of Exeter. She has written several books, including the influential ''Critical Desire: Psychoanalysis and the Literary Subject'' and ''The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema'', and is a regular contributor to the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Hunt Williams
Linda Hunt Williams (born August 12, 1948) is an American politician. She was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2016 and she served from 2017 until her resignation on August 31, 2018. A Republican, she represented the 37th district (based in southern Wake County Wake County is located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. In the 2020 census, its population was 1,129,410, making it North Carolina's most-populous county. From July 2005 to July 2006, Wake County was the 9th-fastest growing county in the U ...). Honors In 2018, Williams was listed as a Champion of the Family in thNC Values Coalition Scorecard Committee assignments *Commerce and Job Development *Education - Community Colleges *Finance *Homeland Security, Military, and Veterans Affairs *Homelessness, Foster Care, and Dependency *State and Local Government II Electoral history References {{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Linda Hunt Living people Republican Party members of the No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |