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Showing 1 to 20 of 454 for “"1940s"”.
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More Alive than Ever? Futurism in the 1940s
The 1940s are undoubtedly the years most neglected by scholars of Italian Futurism. The movement had long supported Fascism, but its vocal endorsement of Mussolini’s regime and its military adventures at this time is widely considered to represent Futurism’s ultimate betrayal of those …
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The plight of women in Egyptian cinema (1940s 1960s)
It has been suggested that the period between the 1940s and the 1960s was 'the golden age' of Egyptian cinema -a period of growth, innovation and popularity. The aim of this research is to focus on the plight of Egyptian women in selected long feature films of this period, and how this -was …
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Commodifying and Consuming Endocrine Drugs in Republican China (1920s–1940s)
Since the introduction of hormone pharmaceuticals into China during the early twentieth century, these substances became objects of fascination for a growing urban elite class. Drawing from newspapers, medical journals, and advertisements, this article examines the unique trajectories of hormone …
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A Syncretic Modernism: Articulations of Painting in Turkey (1910s-1940s)
This dissertation is a critical history of modern art in Turkey, focusing on two generations of artists that came to articulate the parameters of painting in the late Ottoman Empire and the Turkish early republic. I follow the trajectories of a selection of artists who became leading figures in the …
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A Comparison of Bluegrass Bands: 2013 Bands Versus the 1940s-1960s Bands
… 2013 and compared it with bluegrass found in the 1940s and 1960s. To date, only one similar study has been identified. In 1963, L.M. Smith completed a study entitled, Bluegrass Music and Musicians: An Introductory Study of a Musical Style in Its Cultural Context. In the conclusion to his study, …
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American social science and the psychology of development in India, 1940s-1960s
With the arrival of independence in 1947, India’s first generation of post-colonial leaders embraced the concept of ‘development’ as a central objective of nation-building and a raison d'être of the post-colonial state. The opportunity of freedom, it was argued, would pave the way for a dramatic …
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Inspiring the Nation: French Music about Jeanne d'Arc in the 1930s and 1940s
… to Jeanne d'Arc during the tumultuous 1930s and 1940s. Jeanne d'Arc's status as an ambivalent symbol of French nationalism allows a novel appraisal of both the music of this period and its larger historical issues: the formation of French national identities, how music is used to convey …
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Two shadows in the moonlight : music in British film melodrama of the 1940s
In this thesis I examine the differences between music in the two cinemas. Concentrating on exemplary films from the late 1930s to the early 1950s, I show how the apparent differences are manifested, and by analysing a number of key British films, I illustrate the modes of musical expression used. …
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Realism, Fantasy, and the ‘H’ Certificate: Rethinking Horror Cinema in Britain during the 1940s
Existing research on British cinema during the 1940s has often assumed an opposition between realism and fantasy or, as it is also known, 'realism and tinsel'. However, through an analysis of contemporary critical reception and censorship discourses, it becomes apparent how this division was …
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A Reconsideration of the Interpretation and Analysis Typically Applied to Edward Hopper’s Art During the 1940s
… of Edward Hopper’s art focusing on the 1940s. The thesis proposes that Hopper should be categorised as a Modernist. This notion was explored by selecting and critically evaluating literature and original paintings by Hopper. The literature utilised for this research included: materials …
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The management of malaria and leprosy in Hong Kong and the International Settlement of Shanghai, 1880s-1940s
… and of leprosy from the 1880s through the 1940s. This dissertation has two main objectives. Firstly it examines the historical management of malaria and leprosy within specific geo-political contexts. By focusing on British possessions in coastal China, this project explores the production …
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One-room schools and their role in the development of the Appalachian hills of West Virginia: 1863--1940s
One-room schools provided the educational settings for the majority of West Virginians until well into the twentieth century. The distribution of the population throughout the rural, rolling, and mountainous terrain resulted in the location of schools within walking distance for most students. The …
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A historiography of South Africa's public health care governance affecting health system strength from the 1940s to 2023
Segregationist minority rule socially engineered a system built on the brutality of black and brown people in South Africa leading to the aggravation of opportunistic infections. Centuries of white capitalist governance enslaved Black populations through settler colonialism and continued to inflict …
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Crossing borders from Hungary to Ireland: the cross-cultural adaptation of Hungarian refugees from the 1940s and their compatriots from the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
Hungary was compelled to release great emigration waves several times during the course of its history. In 1956, shortly after the Post-War polarisation and the Hungarian uprising, the Irish government granted asylum to 541 Hungarian refugees. The arrival of the Hungarians marked Ireland’s first …
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Selling Art in the Age of Retail Expansion and Corporate Patronage: Associated American Artists and the American Art Market of the 1930s and 1940s
… the social-historical context of the 1930s and 1940s.</p>
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Practice in theory, and the theory of practice: Examining the place of climate and modernity in postcolonial architectural mediation in Ghana since the 1940s
The need to mediate architectural practices by expropriating knowledge concepts between cultures in contact remains a twenty-first century concern globally but is especially so in developing former colonies. This interest is raised in the Cultural Policy of Ghana (2004). In the larger African …
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The long journey to become 'the river of national unity': The Sao Francisco river basin from 1940s to 2008 and the interactions of environment, government and local citizens
… the ecosystem's services of the river during the 1940s--2008 timeframe. A new legal instrument, the 1997 Water Policy, introduced a novel form of management regarding public participation, policy goals and ways of achieving them. The new policy mandates participation of multiple stakeholders' …
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The ambiguities of empowerment: a deconstructive approach to the adult education work of Edward Roux in the 1930s and 1940s and its implications for present conceptions of learner materials for adult basic education and training (ABET)
This research is an attempt to understand the ambiguities of empowerment inherent in transactions between educators and adult learners studying at a basic level. Through analysing the case study of Edward Roux's text-based adult education intervention for Africans in South Africa in the 1940's, …
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