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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cultural Icon"”.
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Lei Feng: China's Evolving Cultural Icon, 1960s to the Present
In 1962, very few people within the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) had ever heard of Lei Feng, a young soldier who died in a tragic accident while driving a truck for the People's Liberation Army. The following year, his name was known throughout China as one of the finest young soldiers that the …
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Virgin of Guadalupe: The Evolution of Mexico's Mother Image Into a Cultural Icon
… beliefs that has evolved into a popular cultural icon. This progression of her popularity can be seen in artistic expression from Mexican artists in the sixteenth century to the Chicano art movement in the twentieth century United States. This thesis is an analysis of the evolution of the …
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The actions of the state in the production of cultural heritage the treatment of a cultural icon as bearer of values, identity and meaning at Groot Constantia in Cape Town
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references.
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Priming Bush (vs. Obama) increases favorable evaluations of American brands: An intersubjective value perspective
Although the effects of iconic culture priming are well documented, it is unclear how it works. The intersubjective approach posits that a cultural icon activates intersubjective values (values that are perceived to be widely shared among others) and elevates evaluations of attitude objects that …
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<em>On the Road</em> from Melville to Postmodernism: The Case for Kerouac's Canonization.
… the Road</em> in 1957, Jack Kerouac became a cultural phenomenon. Crowned the "King" of the Beat Generation, Kerouac embodied the restlessness of Cold War-era America. What no one realized at the time, however, was that the movement that he supposedly led went against Kerouac's own beliefs. …
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She Had to be Bad: The Femme Fatale in Hard-Boiled Detective Fiction and Film Noir
… Eve, the <em>femme fatale</em> did not become a cultural icon until the publication of Hard-Boiled detective novels in the 1940s. The Hard-Boiled detective novel positions the <em>femme fatale</em> as manipulative seductress who deliberately commits murder and functions as a villain. As the …
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A Case-study of Alcohol Consumption and of the Irish Public House in late Modernity. Social processes that manifest themselves as cultural, economic and political constraints.
… Ireland is acknowledged as a ‘traditional and a ‘cultural’ pursuit. The social world of the drinker however, is constructed in a complex way that extends beyond the cultural sphere. Movement of people, commodities and ideas (global processes) are central to contemporary life-style choices and …
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Coping With Neighbors & other entanglements
… rights struggles have endangered the Kooyooe, a cultural icon in the Paiute community. Such a struggle represents the violence of colonialism in the landscape and inequitable distribution of its resource. Contemporary land management that supports damming and extraction and indigenous land …
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Asanti Daughter of Zion: The life and memory of Harriet Tubman
… one by reconstituting her into a historical and cultural icon suitable for mass consumption as the "Mother of her race". More myth than reality, this historical image has not always been representative of Tubman's real life experience.</p><p>Through the use of long disregarded and obscured …
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Race, Retreat, and Refuge: Black Voices, American Nature Writing, and Ecocritical Exile
… of Henry David Thoreau, literary artist turned cultural icon. This key era—during which black Americans were frequently subject to systematic deprivation of literacy, liberty, and agency—is also the period when the American nature writing genre emerged as a definitive fusion of environmental …
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Businesses as Cultural Icons: Their Application towards Understanding Urban Morphology
Icons surround us but are so ubiquitous they are difficult to observe. Specifically urban cultural icons are a scientific sub-topic under urban morphology's heading and as well are closely related to economic development issues. This study premises that businesses are urban cultural icons which can …
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The Djinn
… motif, primarily, the urgent, silly, celebrated cultural icon of the Bunnychow. This dish, essential to the South African urban experience, is of course, a half loaf of bread with the insides scooped out and the resulting cavity filled with curry, insanely hot and floating in oil.
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Guttersnipes' and 'Eliterates': City College in the Popular Imagination
… to chart the institution's emergence as a cultural icon, a lightning rod, and the perennial focus of public controversy. In each instance a variety of actors from the Catholic Church to the New York Post mobilized popular perceptions in order to alternately shore up and erode support for …
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4 Theatres…
… thought of, but rarely considered, as a local cultural icon almost automatically brings high level of local conservative scrutiny. The wonderful instance about this project is that by merely suggesting a renewal of this magnitude could spur an incredible debate from the word, "Action." The …
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Queering the body: cross-dressing performance and identity politics in Cantonese opera of post-1950s Hong Kong
… history, fandom, and social identity (gender, cultural, and national). Taking a musicological, ethnographic, and historical approach, I examine gender performativity as it pertains to those women performers who play the leading male role-type (the wenwusheng) in Cantonese opera—performers who …