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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"High Culture"”.
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BEHIND THE ART HOUSE: The Evolution of Art-House Distribution after World War II and the Rise of the Selling of Films as High Culture
… and development of what I call "art-film culture" in the United States from 1945 to 1962. It is based in large part on original interviews with film distributors, film critics, and exhibitors, as well as newly discovered archival material from numerous sources. After World War II, Italian …
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Jewels in the Queen's crown: The fine and performing arts in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1865-1919
… period of this study to be the ""golden age"" of high culture in Cincinnati, during which the city's major arts institutions came into being and the Queen City enjoyed a national reputation as a center of the fine and performing arts."
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“The most popular humorist who ever lived” : Mark Twain and the transformation of American culture
… a hierarchical cultural category that included high culture literary figures, such as James Russell Lowell and Bret Harte; literary comedians, such as Artemus Ward and Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby; and clowns and minstrels, who were placed at the bottom of the hierarchy. I argue that Mark Twain …
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The role of cultural flagships in the perception and experience of urban areas for tourism and culture. Case study: The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
… of a well established urban area for tourism and culture, taking the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden as a case study. Covent Garden, as an important part of London’s tourist portfolio is a case study of interest because of its wide array of land use that makes it a popular area for tourism and …
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Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, and Implicit Forgiveness in the Works of Junot Díaz
… of Junot Díaz’s combination of “low” and “high” culture art and literature in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.In the wake of Díaz publishing “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma,” and the subsequent accusations of abuse against him, it seemed irresponsible to examine the text …
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
… period for the potential of Canadian drama, and high culture in general, was thwarted by public apathy, an inferiority complex, the failure of the government to act on the recommendations of the Massey Report, and the omnipresence of television which paved the way for the conquest of mass culture …
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Precarious luxury
… requirements are necessary, yet within present culture, there is evidence of a movement towards mashups or collaborations between high and low, high culture and street culture, which is also to be reflected within the program. Thus, the program itself is rethought of clusters that are used by …
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Digital and Interactive Media Analysis of Myths and Traditions Expressed in Thai Fairground Art
… popular entertainment, Thai official/ royal high culture and confessional Buddhist ethical instruction by analysing the art forms associated with temple fairgrounds at major festivals. Based on a review of related literature and analysis of Thai artists, it concludes that the renaissance of …
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"""A house of difference"": Constructions of the lesbian poet in Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Paula Gunn Allen"
… performs a loaded function in the literate high culture of literary discourse, it is also a curiously slippery designation which often undermines its own privileged status. Lesbian poets are at once women who perform lyric identity to grass-roots audiences, and writers whose signatures need …
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Materials of Buddhist Culture: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism at Mindroling Monastery
… the relationships between Buddhism and culture as exemplified at Mindroling Monastery. Focusing on the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, this work argues that Mindroling was a seminal religio-cultural institution that played a key role in cultivating the ruling elite class …
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The doocots of Moray: a holistic approach to their evolutionary development.
… bias. In stark contrast to large-scale, 'high culture', urban buildings erected for human occupation, the mere doocot has been mostly omitted from inclusion in architectural studies, Scotland especially having the ignominious claim to a dearth of published material on doocots. As a …
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Valorising Hidden Culture: Power, Identity and Affect in Leicester Food Practices
… mainstream cultural studies discourse, in which culture is conceived as capital, through economic valorisation, and a productionist gaze, which favours culture as produced and as product. The thesis highlights the shortcomings of such an approach, expressed as a deficit in our understanding of …
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St. Nicholas Magazine: A Portable Art Museum
… readers in the acceptable taste associated with high culture, provide morally uplifting art that would inspire a proper Victorian American life, and train the upper and middle classes to become visual consumers.</p> <p>I argue that St. Nicholas should be considered an art magazine specifically …
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Female subjectivity and agency in popular Mexican corridos (Ballads): an examiniation of images and representations of soldaderas (female soldiers) in the Mexican Revolution 1910-1920
… and representations of women in Mexican popular culture. This study proposes to explore the " intersectionality" (Collins 1998) of gender, race, and class in female subjectivity and agency, during the Mexican culture of the Revolution of 1910- 1920, as depicted in the images and representations …
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Cultivat(ing) modernities : the Society for National Heritage, political propaganda and public architecture in twentieth-century Iran
… impact permeated the definition and function of high culture in Iran's 20th-century sociopolitical history. The dissertation offers a critical analysis of the political underpinnings, pedagogical aims, racial schemas, and aesthetic ends of propaganda architecture as they were conceived and …
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''Even the Truth needs a Barnum'' Nicolas Nabokov, Music and the Cold War
… impression that the USA was ' lacking in culture', whilst chapter 6 examines the split Nabokov's policy produced between the CCF in Paris and its New York-based American affiliate. Finally, chapters 7 and 8 seek to consider whether there might be broader connections between this …
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Compositional Issues with Corigliano, Oliveros, and Kernis
… elements of popular music with so-called 'high culture', and if so, which are more fruitful than others?Some of the questions were specifically directed at the artists and their own works. For instance, Oliveros was asked what initially attracted her to the accordion and what is useful …
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Learning to kill? Taking aim with the first-person shooter.
… ‘serious’, replicating pre-existing notions of high culture and popular culture: this thesis rejects this tendency towards canonisation and focuses on how a popular gaming franchise can become the site for a wide range of learning opportunities. This project has undertaken research with three …
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Nietzsches Begriff der décadence : kritik und analyse der moderne
… 'Darwinist' hypothesis would be that occidental culture impedes the development of humanity because it makes 'natural selection' ineffective. The second, 'historico-philosophical' hypothesis would be: everything has existed before, nothing changes, there is neither progress nor degeneration. …
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The Contemporary Shakespearean Actor as the Site of Adaptive Encounter
… Though ubiquitous figures within culture, there is a dearth of criticism which questions what qualities are invoked in the use of the term ‘Shakespearean’ and what implicit judgements of value or taste, class or cultural function are at work in its attribution. Although works such …
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