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Showing 1 to 20 of 1743 for “"1980s"”.
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Negotiating Traditions : Taiwanese Art Since the 1980s
Traditions, especially those that are non-Western, tend to be popularly perceived as very ancient. This is frequently not the case as shown, for instance, by Eric Hobsbawn and others in their studies demonstrating that traditions are "often quite recent in origin and sometimes invented." Employing …
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Moving with Words, 1950s–1980s: Language, Notation, Choreography
… 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 that …
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Counter-sites in 1980s New York Poetry-Videos
… of home-video making technology in the 1980s, and secondly, that these videos (re)deployed space in order to visualise alternative ways of thinking about particular social issues through the creation of ‘counter-sites.’ This thesis traces the journey from page to screen of a selection of …
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New patriotism of the post-1980s generation in China
… the new characteristics of patriotism of Post-1980s generation in China. The analysis is based on a carefully-designed research process. The findings are focused on the research questions. The new patriotism of Post-1980s generation in China has been presented by newspapers. The secondary …
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Uncommon Knowledge: A History of Queer New Mexico, 1920s-1980s
… political organizations in the 1920s through the 1980s. Using New Mexico as case study, I provide an alternative narrative to previous scholarship that focuses either exclusively on gay urban or gay rural lives and instead present an example of a migratory queer network where lesbians and gay men …
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A History of the Night in South Africa, 1860s-1980s
This dissertation uses the night as a vantage point to reassess the history of South Africa between the mid-nineteenth and late-twentieth century. It combines methods from cultural and social history, infrastructural studies, and the emerging field of ‘night studies’, to present a new way of …
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Making a community : Indians in Cape Town, circa 1900-1980s
The contention underlying this dissertation is that ethnic identity and notions of community in South Africa are the result of several intertwined processes, which include historic interventions by the state to create 'groups' and 'nations' as building blocks for apartheid structures. These …
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The evolution of intimacy : advertising personal computers in the 1980s
… constructing the personal computer in the mid -1980s, we come to understand the role and potential implications of advertising in socially constructing meaning, as well as gain a deep perspective on how the personal computer was constituted in the early years of its introduction into the home. …
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Mutterrecht to Mauerfall: Cassandra and Penthesilea in 1980s east German art
… figures emerged in East German art in the 1980s: Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess, and Penthesilea, the Amazon warrior queen. Christa Wolf’s 1983 novel, Cassandra, exerted a profound influence on the pacifist movement and enhanced women’s gender consciousness during this period. The 1986 …
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Uses and Misuses of Chemicals in the British Home, 1930s – 1980s
Between the 1930s and 1980s, British home life was transformed by the adoption of labour-saving technologies, among which were chemicals. The voluntary, domestic use of man-made, branded and unbranded chemicals and products (excluding drugs or medicines) is a topic that has been neglected, making …
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Presidential, Post-Imperial and Personal: Envoy Diplomacy in Japan, 1960s-1980s
This dissertation is a case-study-led analysis of the role of special envoys in Japanese postwar diplomacy based on multiarchival research in Japan, the UK, the US, and South Korea. It examines how and why, in the early postwar period, Japanese prime ministers often relied on trusted individuals …
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The Visual Syntax of a Postcolony: Photographs in Zambia, 1930s – 1980s
… and textual materials from the 1930s to the 1980s, collected from the National Archives of Zambia as well as several private collections, including that of the Fine Art Studios in Lusaka, this dissertation attempts to understand the different ways in which critical attention to the role of …
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Beginnings of the Nuevo South: Mexican Migration in 1970s and 1980s Mississippi
… that Mexican migrants during the 1970s and 1980s were uniquely affected by Mississippi’s racial climate due to their ambiguous status in a Black and white society, where they fit in neither category. The examination of tactics by businesses, like B.C. Rogers Poultry plant, show the impact …
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Inkatha, Propaganda, and Violence in KwaZulu-Natal in the 1980s and 90s
<p>The 1980s and 1990s marked the beginning of the end of Apartheid in South Africa but before the first fully democratic election in 1994, the KwaZulu-Natal region was being torn apart by a low level civil war. This conflict was not the black majority fighting against white minority, but part of …
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A Cauldron of Chaos and Cultivation: Rediscovering Disney Animation of the 1980s
… transitional Disney animated features of the 1980s <em>The Fox and the Hound</em> (1981), <em>The Black Cauldron</em> (1985), <em>The Great Mouse Detective</em> (1986), and <em>Oliver and Company</em> (1988)— in order to reassess the significance of this period in Disney history. The Walt …
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Great Expectations: The Role of Myth in 1980s Films with Child Heroes
This study performed a mythic analysis on three films with child heroes including E.T.—the Extra-Terrestrial, Stand by Me, and The Goonies. Several unifying themes were extracted and then compared with the dominant values of Reagan America to determine if these films provided a unique cultural …
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Labor Law and the State: The Crises of Unions in the 1980s
… many Western capitalist democracies during the 1980s. Specifically examined are the effects of state labor law policies on union strike effectiveness in Great Britain and the United States. Three case studies of union strikes in Great Britain reveal that the Thatcher administration's legislative …
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