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Dan Graham's Video-Installations of the 1970s
… created by American artist Dan Graham in the 1970s. It investigates the artist's relationship to Minimalism by analyzing themes Graham highlights in his own writings and in interviews. In particular, I explore how the artist's understanding of Herbert Marcuse, Walter Benjamin, and R.D. Laing …
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Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s
"Roles Recast: Eleanor Antin and the 1970s" provides the first book-length study devoted to Eleanor Antin (b. 1935), and positions her practice as a pivotal point between late modernism and postmodernism in American art. The project focuses on Antin's work from 1971 to 1977, made while the artist …
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The Soviet Russian Short Story: 1950s-1970s
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:33:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726628.pdf: 8574324 bytes, checksum: e75abfcfa2addf49c4ae0f1d3429bdb9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Porno Ludens: Soviet literary pornography, 1970s – 1990s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2021-12-01
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Under Age: Redefining Legal Adulthood in 1970s America
… and the legal age of majority during the early 1970s, legislators effectively lowered the legal age of adulthood from twenty-one to eighteen, and launched a broader, more wide-ranging debate over other minimum age laws that would preoccupy legislators for much of the decade that followed. These …
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Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation In The 1970s
… the experiences of single mothers from the early 1970s until the mid-1980s. Because most accounts of single motherhood in these decades focused on single motherhood as the cause of social problems, most of the discourse about single motherhood is framed on the premise that single mothers are bad. …
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American Manpower: Work and Masculinity in the 1970s
… three things, as examined over the course of the 1970s: the changes in the state and dependability of work, the pressures of masculinity as felt by heterosexual white men over the age of 20 in the working and middle classes, and what occurred because of the relationship between work and that …
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Phenomenologies of Women's Illness in Ingmar Bergman's 1970s Films
… conceives phenomenologies of illness in three 1970s films by Ingmar Bergman – Cries and Whispers, Face to Face, and Autumn Sonata – that reveal the assaultive effect of illness on the body from both the disease-state itself and the anxious societal perceptions of disability. A phenomenological …
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Generic innovation and social change : the American thriller in the 1970s
… will concentrate on the American thriller in the 1970s, attending to the connection between readings of thrillers and crucial political events such as Watergate. Following a survey of what might be thought to be the key discursive features of the history of the 1970s, the thriller in the period …
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"Celtic Pride": White Nostalgia and Working-Class Masculinity in 1970s Professional Basketball
In the 1970s, the Boston Celtics were widely regarded as the pinnacle of "white" basketball, a style of play that emphasized teamwork, intelligence, efficiency, hard work, grit, and selflessness. They were upheld as a bulwark against the invasion and takeover of the NBA by "black" basketball. If …
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Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi
… twentieth century with a large increase in the 1970s. The majority of the scholarship surrounding Mexican migration focuses on the 1990s leaving a historiographical gap concerning this earlier period of significant population growth. This thesis argues that Mexican migrants during the 1970s and …
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Transnational Connections of the Mexican Left with the Chicano Movement, 1960s-1970s
… and Mexican activists through the 1960s and 1970s in the midst of the Mexican Dirty War, the Chicana/o Movement, and Third World Solidarity movements. These claims of political solidarity between these two groups rested on ideas of a shared sense of cultural, historical, ethnic, and political …
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The making of modern Scottish craft: revival and invention in 1970s Scotland.
The 1970s were a period of renaissance for the crafts in Britain, often referred to as a craft revival. The creation of national organisations and infrastructures to support craft, and define its identity, played a crucial role in this. The received craft revival narrative focuses on the Crafts …
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Los Grupos and the Art of Intervention in 1960s and 1970s Mexico
… itself as aligned with socialist causes, the 1970s saw an unofficial dirty war launched against perceived radicals to quash the momentum activists had gained in 1968. This heated environment found artists in a continuing struggle to find new forms of expression as well as spaces for the …
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Crafting Lagrange: A Southern Town's Search For Historical Identity In The 1970s
<p>This thesis looks at the 1976 bicentennial of the American Revolution. Many towns across the United States took part in, or planned their own, celebrations to commemorate national history. Yet in many cases these town celebrations also memorialized a local and individual history. LaGrange, …
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Political crisis and the politics of water pollution control in the 1970s
In the late 1970s public trust in government and business increased considerably. During this period the federal government amended the 1972 act. The Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1977 extended industrial compliance deadlines for meeting the national water quality standards and …
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Public aesthetics and collaborative “post-studio” practices in South America 1960s-1970s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Beyond sound effects: Designing sound for the American theatre in the 1970s
… and sound reproduction technologies in the 1970s. Through an analysis of Abe Jacob’s sound design for Broadway and productions created by experimental theatre practitioners such as Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman, and the Wooster Group, I explore how these productions extended formal theatre …
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