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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"POSTWAR AMERICA"”.
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
… through the lens of New Historicism, African American-authored novels (especially Ellison's Inivisible Man and Himes's Run Man Run) are parsed for their representations of soul food as it emerges as a recognizable commodity in the urban North during that time. By invoking theories of critical …
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Other Than a Citizen: Vernacular Poetics in Postwar America
<p>Few symbols of 1950s-1960s America remain as central to our contemporary conception of Cold War culture as the iconic ranch-style suburban home. While the house took center stage in the Nixon/Khrushchev kitchen debates as a symbol of modern efficiency and capitalist values, its popularity …
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Trucking country : food politics and the transformation of rural life in Postwar America
… food economy, and collective social values-to a postwar framework of anti-statism, minimal market regulation, and fierce individualism. Trucking and rural truck drivers were at the heart of what I call the "marketing machine," a new kind of food economy that arose after World War II, …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
… Specifically, the two musicals provided Americans with a prescription for a postwar Paradise. This was a Paradise based upon the American Dream of rebirth and renewal acted out in a landscape of second chances. The components of this Paradise are examined in topical essays that consider …
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The Color(s) of Perfection: The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970
… culture in general created and perpetuated the postwar feminine ideal of "the Sweater girl" - a busty, curvaceous figure more sexual than maternal. Yet, this ideal gave way in little more than a decade. In the late 1960s, youth culture placed a cult-like status on Twiggy, a model with a 31-inch …
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Invisible Men: The Risks and Pleasures of Self-Portrayal in the Work of Contemporary American Male Artists
… of self-portrayal in the work of contemporary American male artists. The feminist art movement of the 1970s provided the aegis for many women artists to challenge the gendered dichotomy of artist/subject via the strategic deployment of their own bodies as artistic subjects. Yet remarkably …
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Technologies of the operator : engineering the pilot in the U.S. and Japan, 1930-1960
… Over the three decades from 1930 to 1960, American psychologists, physiologists, anthropologists, and engineers produced a large body of knowledge, instruments, and techniques with which to understand, select, and train aircraft pilots. The figure of the pilot thus constructed was less of a …
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Transpacific Transcendence: The Buddhist Poetics of Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and Philip Whalen
… literature and philosophy on post-World War II American poetry. Kerouac's "Desolation Blues," Snyder's "On Vulture Peak," and Whalen's "The Slop Barrel" were all written one year after the famous Six Gallery reading in San Francisco where Allen Ginsberg shocked the literary establishment with …
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Design and the Politics of Knowledge in America, 1937-1967: Walter Gropius, Gyorgy Kepes
Using the American careers of Walter Gropius and Gyorgy Kepes as case studies, this dissertation addresses the intersection of art and architecture with the reciprocal politics of knowledge production and state formation in the mid-twentieth century United States. Inasmuch as the careers of Gropius …
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Modelos y series en la casa americana de posguerra
… unifamiliar suburbana durante la posguerra americana, a través del análisis de los proyectos del Case Study House Program. Esta iniciativa residencial, desarrollada en California entre los años 1945 y 1966, se explora desde la clasificación en modelos y series proveniente de las teorías del …
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THE ONE EXHIBITION THE ROOTS OF THE LGBT EQUALITY MOVEMENT ONE MAGAZINE & THE FIRST GAY SUPREME COURT CASE IN U.S. HISTORY 1943-1958
<p>The ONE Exhibition explores an era in American history marked by intense government sponsored anti-gay persecution and the genesis of the LGBT equality movement. The study begins during World War II, continues through the McCarthy era and the founding of the nation’s first gay magazine, and ends …