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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Low Culture"”.
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Common pleasures : low culture in Sydney 1887-1914
This thesis describes and analyses lower-class culture in inner-urban Sydney from 1887 to 1914 as it was enacted in three key institutions— the pub, the vaudeville theatre and the street. It proposes that resistance from below to the dominant order was commonly articulated through cultural codes …
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Low Culture Fever: Pulp Science in Chinese Comics After Mao
… draw out hidden subtexts and formal innovations, Low Culture Fever places science popularization picture stories within the context of their reception by censors and readers, as presented in first-person accounts. This multi-pronged approach brings to light the influence of the much longer legacy …
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The South According To Quentin Tarantino
… a “southern way of life,” nor meant to exploit lower class whites. Tarantino’s application of southerness in his movies are self-reflexive commentaries on “southerness,” assembling them in a postmodern fashion by mixing high and low culture and multiple, even contradictory, genres and images …
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Marvellous geometry : narrative and metafiction in modern fairy tale
… fairy tale is able to adapt itself to a range of cultures and contexts, including numerous examples in the twentieth century. Various authors and film-makers are reasserting the power and value of the fairy tale as a response even to the uncertain and ironic experience of contemporary culture. The …
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Ellas Se Fugan Del Museo: La Narrativa Femenina Frente a La Imagen De La Mujer en Publicaciones Ilustradas Espanolas Del Fin De Siglo
… our assumptions about so-called high and low culture in turn-of-the-century Spain, but also serve as striking reminders that, far from being true copies of a stable reality, representations of women always encode the point of view and the gender of the producer."
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Ellas Se Fugan Del Museo: La Narrativa Femenina Frente a La Imagen De La Mujer en Publicaciones Ilustradas Espanolas Del Fin De Siglo
… our assumptions about so-called high and low culture in turn-of-the-century Spain, but also serve as striking reminders that, far from being true copies of a stable reality, representations of women always encode the point of view and the gender of the producer.
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The Bonwit Teller Window: homoeroticism and gender play in Andy Warhol's early pop exhibition
… mannequins with paintings inspired by popular culture, the display represents a transitional moment in Warhol’s career. By 1960 Warhol had begun to decrease his commercial output in pursuit of a career as a gallery artist, taking up painting in lieu of illustration. The resulting paintings …
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Ridiculous Geographies: Mapping the Theatre of the Ridiculous as Radical Aesthetic
… they all shared a reverence for popular culture of the twentieth century; they all blended references from high and low culture in their dramaturgy; and they all created performances that took a unique approach to cross-dressed performance. The objective of this project is to "map" the …
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Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography
… narratives bridge the gap between 'high' and 'low' culture in ways that encourage their wide-ranging transatlantic readership not only to think critically about the workings of native and foreign sociopolitical systems, but also to consider how these systems complicate the self-narration of …
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Making English Low: A History of Laureate Poetics, 1399-1616
My dissertation analyzes lowbrow literary forms, tropes, and modes in the writings of three would-be laureates, writers who otherwise sought to align themselves with cultural and political authorities and who themselves aspired to national prominence: Thomas Hoccleve (c. 1367-1426), John Skelton …
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The Little Magazine in Britain: Networks, Communities, and Dialogues (1900-1945)
… Chapter 1 explores magazines through the high/low culture dichotomy that continues to dominate our conception of the modernist field and considers how the dichotomy’s implied idea of networks of difference impacts upon how we study, consider, and categorise little magazines. Chapter 2 uses …
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Planning families in Zaria: an investigation into the information-behaviours and favoured advice-givers of parents in northern Nigeria.
… family planning (FP), utilisation remains low. Culture, religion, fear of medical side-effects and the dominant decision-making influence of men have repeatedly been identified by researchers as barriers to the adoption of FP by parents and prospective parents in the region. …