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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) (1946–2025), 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 started appearing on Garrison Keillor's ''A Prairie Home Companion'' radio show in 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 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''. They appeared on the ''WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour The ''WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour'' is a radio program created, produced, and hosted by folk singer Michael Johnathon. Background WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour is a live audie ... [...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 Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ... 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 howeve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Williams (film Scholar)
Linda Lorelle Williams (December 18, 1946 – March 12, 2025) was an American professor of film studies in the departments of Film Studies and Rhetoric at University of California, Berkeley. Life and career Born in San Francisco in 1946, Linda Lorelle 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''. She taught at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Illinois Chicago, and finally, at Berkeley. Her main academic areas of interest were 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 physic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda M
Linda is an English feminine given name, derived from the Spanish word , meaning "pretty." Linda may also refer to: Names * 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 * Miss Linda, long-time manager and wife of Welsh wrestler Adrian Street Surname * Anita Linda (born Alice Lake, 1924–2020), Filipino film actress * Bogusław Linda (born 1952), Polish actor * La Prieta Linda (1933–2021), Mexican singer and actress * Sarah Linda (born 1987), British actress and model * 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, Tasmania, Australia, a ghost town * Linda Valley, Tasmania * Linda, Georgia, a village in Abkhazia * Linda, Bashkortostan, Russia, a village * Linda, California, United States, a census-designated place * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Ruth Williams
Linda Ruth Williams (born 16 April 1961) is a professor of Film theory, film studies in the department of Communications (of which she is head), Drama, and Film 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 the University of Sussex with an MA in Critical theory, Critical Theory. She earned her PhD from Sussex on ''D.H. Lawrence, Lawrence, Nietzsche, Freud and Feminism''. Career She has lectured at University of Liverpool, Liverpool, Manchester University, Manchester and Exeter University, 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 t ... [...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, officially the County of Wake, is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,129,410, making it North Carolina's most populous county. From July 2005 to July 2006, Wake Count ...). 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 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |