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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Berlin Wall"”.
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US STRATEGY BETWEEN THE TWO FALLS: FROM THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL TO BAGHDAD
… rather than change from the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the fall of Baghdad in 2003. During this time, the US pursued a hegemonic strategy that aimed to preserve its unipolar moment in the new American century. However, this argument is challenged by two sets of AFP literature. The …
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Postmodernism and the fall of the Berlin Wall: the role of postmodernism in Berlin’s aesthetic before and after 1989
… of postmodern critical theory on the vanishing Berlin Wall and on the work of selected German artists working before, during and after the fall of the Wall. It discusses the Wall itself as a sign that has been subjected to various discursive translations: from divider of a nation to exhibition …
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`ROAMING IN THE GARDEN OF FREEDOM:' CONSTRUCTIONS OF U.S. IDEOLOGY, IDENTITY, AND THE PAST IN TELEVISION NEWS'S ANNIVERSARY COVERAGE ABOUT THE BERLIN WALL
… CNN news shows construct the story of the Berlin Wall's opening from 1990 through 2009. It does so first by examining the networks' 1989 coverage and assessing the themes and ideologies circulated when the Berlin Wall's opening was breaking news. These themes and ideologies are used as a …
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A fragment of the Berlin Wall in the Centre de commerce mondial de Montréal : notes toward a theory of the public artefact at the "end of history"
… examines the placement of a fragment of the Berlin Wall in the 'Centre de commerce mondial de Montreal' in light of the knowledge produced by these political and aesthetic practices. In keeping with materialist approaches to the study of art as well as to urban space, the production of the …
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How One Writes, Makes, Markets a Movie and How an Audience Reads the Movie: Two Biographical Films of Hitler as a Case Study
… in the "New Germany" after the fall of the Berlin Wall, think of Hitler and their country's Nazi legacy? This dissertation is to explore how six young Germans growing up in the new "unified Germany" interpret two films' representations of Hitler and Nazism.</p>
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The Brandenburg Gates : unity, division, and reinvented tradition in post-wall Berlin
… Deutsche Wiedervereinigung), the once divided Berlin is still undergoing a process of recovery from the deep political, social, cultural, and physical divisions of the 20th century. Such divisions seem to have manifested themselves in every corner of the city throughout the course of history, …
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Global Iconic Events: How News Stories Travel Through Time, Space and Media
… help of the central case study, the "fall of the Berlin Wall," I exhibit the successful social construction of a global iconic event. The second case study, the 1956 Hungarian revolution, illuminates some factors, in particular local counter-narration, incoherent and contextual international …
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Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian
… in Germany and Russia after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 respectively. This thesis offers a comparative analysis of Akin’s In July (2000) and Head-On (2004) and Melikian’s Mars (2004) and Mermaid (2007) and explores how issues of identity …
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Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian
… in Germany and Russia after the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 respectively. This thesis offers a comparative analysis of Akin’s In July (2000) and Head-On (2004) and Melikian’s Mars (2004) and Mermaid (2007) and explores how issues of identity …
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After the wall : a Berlin adventure
… writing thesis is a mystery novella set in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. As a "genre work," it relies heavily on setting and attempts to capture the Zeitgeist . The heroine, Rachel Hoffman, is a journalist who branches out into freelance detective work. In the grand tradition of …
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Between memory and history: Shimon Attie's art of remembrance
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, American-Jewish artist Shimon Attie traveled to the former Jewish quarter of Berlin and wondered “Where are all the missing people?” With this question in mind, Attie embarked on a two year project that involved converting black and white archival photographs …
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Tremulous lines : the alternative history of a site of exception
… of World War II, there were 7 standing border walls in the world. By the time the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, there were another 15 walls. Since its destruction, another 20,000km of walls have been erected to divide the world. Today, fathomless quantities of wire, concrete, steel, sand, stone, …
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Folk Fiction: Yiddish and the Negotiation of Literary Legacy in Germany after 1945
… German-language authors on both sides of the Berlin Wall, and those writing after its fall, relied on Yiddish to negotiate national literary identities. By looking at the diverse body of texts that do this and the ways in which these works were received, this dissertation demonstrates that the …
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Africa returning East : can the China development model travel to Africa?
… in the coming decades. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the neo-liberal agenda has been unchallenged allowing little flexibility for developing countries to alter their macroeconomic policies and closely coupled development agenda. However, the successes of economies to the east of Africa are …
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Local-level policies for small firm sector development in Russia and Hungary: a comparative analysis.
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 heralded the beginning of systemic transformation from centrally-planned to market-type economies in Eastern Europe. From the outset, reforms were shaped by a neo-liberal policy agenda which was grounded in the belief that private ownership and markets would …
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Culture from the slums: punk rock, authenticity and alternative culture in East and West Germany
… and helped, in the end, to bring down the Berlin Wall. Detailing the consequences of the 1960s on democratic change in the Federal Republic and contributing to new literature stressing the space for alternative identities and practices in the East German dictatorship, fundamentally, this …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, critical theorists have lamented in elegiac fashion the disappearance of any political economic system, real or imaginary, that could feasibly offer an alternative to liberal capitalism. Utopia, understood as the aesthetic expression of the desire for alternative …
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Boston Urban Farm : mending the Southwest Corridor
… an integrated inclusivity. At about the time the Berlin wall was constructed, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts cleared a swath of land through Jamaica Plain and Roxbury for a proposed eight lane southwest expressway. Community activism and opposition ensured that the road was never built. For …
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From Victim Hierarchies to Memorial Networks: Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial to Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism
… a “hierarchy of victims” (die Zeit). The Berlin Wall fell seven months later, transforming the political and spatial dimensions of Germany’s commemorative landscape. So began a new phase of contestation – a national memorial project at its centre – over the so-called uniqueness of the …
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"There is evil there that does not sleep": The construction of evil in American popular cinema from 1989 to 2002
… - roughly, the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the attack on the World Trade Center - and how this cinema engaged with representations of enemies and of evil per se. The thesis uses content and thematic analysis on a sample of the 201 most successful films at the U.S. box office …
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