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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"National myth"”.
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Mémoire et silence autour de la guerre d’Algérie
… de Gaulle perpetuated by the creation of a national myth that included the concepts of a civilizing mission' and the need to revive its 'glorious past. The question of torture during that period proved discordant with the republican ideals of France and the construction of the myth, thus …
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Engagement Paper for the Animated Film MASK
… derived just from my experiences as an international student. In other words, this film’s plot emphasizes a newcomer’s arrival into a strange environment, but how one interprets the environment and character’s suffering changes based on the viewer’s experience. As a result, this paper only …
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The Myth of La Malinche: From the Chronicles to Modern Mexican Theater
… from a historical figure of the Conquest to a national myth and a symbol of all those who have allied themselves with foreigners against their own country and its native values and traditions. On the other hand, La Malinche is regarded as the symbolic mother of the mestizos. This thesis …
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‘Ye Olde Englishe Communists’: Popular Front Historians and the Left, 1936-1940
… these works existed within a shift toward a more national focus within the cultural expression of the socialist and communist movements, enacted to engage with the growing threat of fascism. These writers and performers reinterpreted the cornerstones of British national myth, from Alfred the Great …
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The Persistance of National Ideology and Myth: Attempting to Re-Define German National Identity in Post-War Europe
… society from its pre-war roots, changing international and domestic acuity of the German people as violent and racially defined. These postwar leaders, however, were unable to convincingly portray and create a modern nation to shatter the myth of German origins, and accordingly shifted the …
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Postwar art and historical roots of Beirut's cosmopolitanism
… to the present, examining how this putatively national trait is established through the visual arts. It contends that in order to understand the strategies of a group of artists who have come to represent artistic production in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990), we must …
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British National Identity and Maritime Film and Television, 1960-2012
Abstract This thesis considers the mythology connected to the maritime sphere and notions of British national identity and collective unity through the projection of the maritime in British film and television. Specifically, it traces the evolution of this myth through the period 1960-2012, a …
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Nietzsche’s Europeanism: A Critical Genealogy
… 1950s, Friedrich Nietzsche, once associated with National Socialism, has been rediscovered as a ‘good European’. For most commentators, he is the quintessential, philosophical critic of the nation-state, a lone cosmopolitan voice calling for the unification of Europe in an age of nationalism, …
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Manifest Density: Decentering the Global Western Film
… form, one so deeply ingrained as to constitute a national myth. This perception persists despite its inherent shortcomings, among them its inapplicability to the many instances of filmmakers outside the United States appropriating the genre and thus undercutting this view of generic …