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Showing 1 to 20 of 122 for “"Cultural memory"”.
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The Cultural Memory of Britain's Cold War
… serve to recall, reflect, and shape Britain’s cultural memory of the period. This thesis assesses a number of post-1989 cultural portrayals of the Cold War to explore how Britain remembers the conflict. It will demonstrate that the ambiguous nature of the Cold War and Britain’s role within it …
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Daedala Tecta: Architectural Terracottas And Cultural Memory In Republican Italy
… In the absence of defined mythic traditions and cultural memories, colonists used architectural terracottas as part of a broader process of tradition-invention aimed at the creation of group identities. The cultural concerns with archaizing and traditionalism to which these terracottas attest …
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The Iconography of Kee -Chung Sohn in Korean Cultural Memory
… and people through economic, military and cultural crisis. The dissertation makes a call to the Korean government that Sohn be better memorialized, suggesting that the use of the image of Sohn in Korean culture may be a key stimulus to South and North Korean unification.
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Memorial Reconstructions: Christopher Marlowe, Cultural Memory, and the Royal Shakespeare Company
"Chapter One traces the creation of the Marlowe myth through the critical record and identifies four persistent aspects of that myth: when compared to Shakespeare, Marlowe is repeatedly figured as an atheist, bohemian, ""queer,"" and foreign figure. Chapter Two explores the permanent, physical …
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Cambodian Genocide Museums And Memorials: A Medium For Transmitting Intergenerational Cultural Memory
… museums in promoting shared intergenerational cultural memory from the Cambodian genocide. I focus on four sites: the Cambodian American Heritage Museum and Killing Fields Memorial in Chicago, Illinois; Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial in Seattle, Washington; the Tuol Sleng …
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MAKING AUSTRIAN: CULTURAL MEMORY, NATIONALISM, AND PERFORMING IDENTITY POLITICS IN LATE IMPERIAL VIENNA
… the interplay between performances of cultural memory, indeed often a fabrication of shared memory, and the theatrical contributions to nationalist aims, has been largely overlooked. This thesis aims to examine the evolution of two interrelated performances: First, the development of …
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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television
… and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The claim that many Germans had been victims became central as evidenced by the vast …
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Sacred Ground, Divided Histories: Conflicts Over Religious Sites and Their Impact on Cultural Memory
… destruction of contested sacred spaces on the cultural memory and identity of the communities involved. Contested sacred spaces involve one or more religions claiming ownership of the site. Conflicts that arise from these disputes can affect the cultural memory of the groups involved. The …
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Cultural critique and canon formation, 1910-1937. A study in modernism and cultural memory
… from the canon. I investigate the work and cultural milieu of three such writers: Douglas Goldring, John Rodker and Mary Butts. The first chapter sets the terms of the argument, and presents the grounds for a reconfiguration of the conventional historical view of modernism. The second …
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A critical practice-based exploration of interactive panoramas' role in helping to preserve cultural memory
… has affected the way researchers look at ways memory – especially cultural memory – can be preserved and enhanced. State-of-the-art communication technologies such as the Internet or immersive environments support participation and interaction and transform memory into ‘prosthetic’ experience, …
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Cultural memory and imagination: dreams and dreaming in the Roman Empire 31 BC – AD 200
This thesis takes Assmann’s theory of cultural memory and applies it to an exploration of conceptualisations of dreams and dreaming in the early Roman Empire (31 BC – AD 200). Background information on dreams in different cultures, especially those closest to Rome (the ancient Near East, Egypt and …
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Branding History: Literature-to-Screen Adaptation and the Cultural Memory of China’s Second World War
… and adapt from each other, shaping China’s cultural memory of the war. Covering screen-based cultural representations of the war that have been produced since 1946, this dissertation is divided into five core chapters, with the first chapter offering a systematic overview of Chinese …
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Divergent Divine Memories: Divine National Power, Cultural Memory, and the Deuteronomistic History of 1&2 Kings
… history as presented by the biblical text as the cultural memory of ancient Israel. Scholars widely regard the historical books (Joshua-2 Kings) as having been influenced by the ideology of Deuteronomy and therefore find a significant compositional level(s) to the text which they call the …
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Weaving histories: cultural memory, similarity, and curatorial approach in the interpretation of Achaemenid and Safavid Persian carpets
… to national identity. A pivotal moment in this cultural vision was the 1931 International Exhibition of Persian Art at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, curated by Arthur Upham Pope with Reza Shah’s support. Reza Shah also encouraged Iranian artists to study abroad, while Mohammad Reza Shah …
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"We Are Not What You Think": Cultural Memory, Group Identity and Resistance in Contemporary Ethnic Historical Fiction
… works of US ethnic historical fiction employ culturalmemory as counter-myth to challenge exclusionary discourse about US history. In thischallenge lies the potential for social justice by centering the experience of marginalized groupsin memory discourse to revise or enhance historical …
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Art from Place: The Expression of Cultural Memory in the Urban Environment and in Place-Specific Interventions
The research question is put as follows: How is cultural memory expressed in the urban environment and how can/do artists utilise this expression to produce work? Under the new streams of critical geography a new sense for the word place has developed, which reformulates the prevalent concept of …
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Rhetoric on the Margins of the Second Wave: Feminism, Cultural Memory, and the Transformation of the Political
"The displacement of radical forms of women's political practices necessitates not the ""recovery"" of certain histories, but the very ""creation"" of histories which reconsider the meaning of ""eventfulness"" and change. By examining the anomalous rhetorical practices and their infectious …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
This thesis advances a reparative framework for cultural preservation by combining immersive documentation with co-authored digital storytelling to support Black spatial memory and community sovereignty. Grounded in fieldwork on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina—a historic Gullah Geechee community …
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The Rhythm of Our Lives: Popular Music and Cultural Memory in the Age of the Internet and Retro Culture
… examines how popular music listening facilitates cultural memory through retro culture and the affordances of the internet and mobile listening technologies. The theoretical framework is comprised of a blend of approaches, namely, Hesmondhalgh’s (2005) ‘none of the above’ thesis, Mannheim’s (1928) …
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Lelov: cultural memory and a Jewish town in Poland. Investigating the identity and history of an ultra - orthodox society.
Lelov, an otherwise quiet village about fifty miles south of Cracow (Poland), is where Rebbe Dovid (David) Biederman founder of the Lelov ultra-orthodox (Chasidic) Jewish group, - is buried. His grave is now a focal point of the Chasidic pilgrimages. The pilgrims themselves are a Chasidic …
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