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Modes of film production in 1950s Italy
… in the post-war era and particularly during the 1950s, has not been studied extensively. This lack of specific, in-depth studies around this area, guided me in undertaking a first analysis of this period. In doing so, I combined archival, cultural, and historical analysis, as well as economical, …
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Domesticity And Masculinity In 1950s British Painting
… examines how men experienced domesticity in the 1950s in Britain and analyses the role that artistic representations play in the expression and formulation of this masculine selfhood in this context. It considers domesticity at this historical moment as an inherently flexible concept: one that …
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The Soviet Russian Short Story: 1950s-1970s
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Moving with Words, 1950s–1980s: Language, Notation, Choreography
… the use of language to notate movement from the 1950s to 1980s. During this period, traditional forms of pictographic movement notation get replaced in avant-garde communities by experimental language scores. These emerge within the context of a widespread and international turn towards notation …
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America in British political culture during the long 1950s
… of Britain’s political culture during the long 1950s. During this period events and trends from across the Atlantic were keenly monitored in Britain as the growth of the close Anglo-American diplomatic relationship added to the longstanding interest in US culture. This thesis provides an …
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Teenagers, Everyday Life and Popular Culture in 1950s Ireland
… and their interactions with popular culture in 1950s Ireland. Popular culture is contextualised within the wider social discourses of the decade including emigration, unemployment, globalisation and the rise of mass culture. Understanding the social structures of young people’s lives provides a …
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Malaysian worldmakers in the age of decolonisation, 1950s-1970
In the 1950s and the 1960s, Malaysian nationalists harboured ambitions to remake the world following the age of empires. Among them was a group of state actors whose Anglophile and anti-communist profiles had facilitated their rise to power. Turning to the platform of international institutions, …
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Mother's little helper : minor tranquilizers and women in the 1950s
… social, economic, and political climate of the 1950s, arguing that there is a direct link between the widespread use of Miltown, especially among middle class women, and the decade's obsession with anxiety, gender role conformity, and social stability.
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Film and Fado in Portugal from the 1930s to the 1950s
A popular urban song, fado has been the subject of highly contested debates in Portuguese politics and culture. This dissertation examines the representation of fado in the Portuguese cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, concentrating primarily on the popular comedies, dramas and rural-folkloric films. …
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The Representation of Japan in British POW films of the 1950s
… representations of Japan in British films of the 1950s. Japan's image changed drastically during and after World War II, as knowledge of Japan's maltreatment of prisoners of war (POWs) became known. The thesis considers four films and the novels or scripts from which they were made: The Wind …
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The Function of Physical Space in the Cuban Novel of the 1950s
… the subsequent 1960s ‘Boom’, Cuban novels of the 1950s have been confined to the backwater of literary analysis, often grouped together and dismissed as mere social realism like their Spanish counterparts, or described as inferior. The spatial has been similarly overlooked in literary analysis in …
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The Impact of American Movies on Egyptian Cinema in 1950s and 1960s
The 1952 military coup in Egypt constituted the beginning of a new era in Egypts history and pushed forward substantial societal, economic and political changes. These changes represent the fruits of the revolutionary regime's pro-modernization ideology. In their search for modernity, the Egyptian …
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Born to Shop: Teenage Women and the United States Marketplace in the 1950s
… project tells a story of teenage girls in the 1950s. This story centers on the construction of feminine adolescence and illustrates how, in the shadow of the atom bomb, middle-class culture emerged as indebted prosperity. The false affluence that appeared in the beginnings of the cold war …
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银幕青春——冷战与邵氏青春电影 (1950s-1970s) = HONG KONG YOUTH ON SCREEN: THE COLD WAR AND TEEN MOVIES MADE BY SHAW BROTHERS (1950S-1970S)
… by Shaw Brothers, during the cold war era from 1950s to 1970s.The aim of this thesis is to find out how the cold war had influenced the teen movies. In the study of the teen movies, together with Hong Kong political and cultural environment during the cold war era, I particularly look into the …
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A Fashion Sensibility: Clothing and the Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s–Present
… Politics of Memory through Ghanaian Photography, 1950s to the Present examines Ghanaians’ enduring attentiveness to fashion and proposes a critical rethinking of fashion photography by considering the genre through African aesthetics within a global context. Contrary to previous accounts of …
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Belinda Lee: fame and female identity in British and Continental cinema of the 1950s
… in British and Continental cinema of the 1950s. Changes in societal values and Lee’s screen roles are juxtaposed to indicate many of the populist and progressive trends of the era and the ways in which these may have influenced her career opportunities. The research is presented within a …
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The Urban Culture of Chinese Society in Bangkok: Cinemas, Broadcast and Literature, 1950S-1970S
The thesis has addressed urban culture in Chinese society in Bangkok in the postwar era, with particular focus on cinemas, broadcast and literature. These forms of cultural expression appear in the social sphere?in the streets, on the air and in texts, which constitute important parts of the urban …
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