Thats classified: class politics and adolescence in twin peaks

Twin Peaks arguably paved the way for the television programmes currently popular with adolescent audiences, like The OC and Veronica Mars and, in it, many of the issues and representational strategies in those later programmes have their earlier manifestation. Specifically, the Twin Peaks plotline evinces a set of cultural anxieties about class-difference. Twin Peaks creates a cultural microcosm of American society that is paradoxically writ large by the limited parameters of an isolated community. Within a constricted space, characters are depicted as both individuals and as archetypes of a class location.<br /

Loss of control defence-Fit for purpose?

This article examines the case law on the loss of control defence and considers whether the interpretation of the defence has been too conservative so that the defence is barely available as a defence to murder

Book Review: Music, Sound, and Multimedia, From the Live to the Virtual

A 3000 word review of a series of ten academic papers on Music Sound and Multimedia, compiled into a single edited volum

Vermont\u27s Dairy Sector: Is There a Sustainable Future for the 800 lb. Gorilla?

Key Questions Will the organic sector resume its previous prolific growth or will it stagnate? The growth in artisan cheese presents an opportunity for a few farmers, but will it continue? How does the interest in local foods affect Vermont’s dairy sector? Will the interest in raw milk present a future option for dairy farmers

T-Duality and Conformal Invariance at Two Loops

We show that the conformal invariance conditions for a general sigma-model with torsion are invariant under T-duality through two loops.Comment: 21 pages. Uses RevTex. Revised Version with extra references and typos correcte