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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Playboy"”.
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A Playboy jelenség kulturális és társadalomtörténeti összefüggései = The cultural and sociological associations of the Playboy phenomenon
A Playboy jelenség kulturális és társadalomtörténeti összefüggései című disszertáció arra keresi a választ, hogy kimutatható-e ok-okozati összefüggés a Hugh Hefner által az 50-es évek elején életre keltett „Playboy” életfilozófia és a nyugati kultúrában, a XX. század második felében az élet minden …
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More than a Centerfold: Gender, Politics and Playboy, 1954-1988
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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
… the County Courts: Taming the Wild Gender of the Playboy Revue,” I investigate the spectacularly detailed reporting of legal battles fought by the eleven “Playboys” who performed at a tavern in Troy, New York. The legal cases and the discursive media accounts that I discuss in the case study never …
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Staging Modernism
… century. During this period, magazines such as Playboy, Escapade and Rogue created features on modern living to reassure an independent and affluent man that a dwelling with style and taste would ensure a happy bachelor life and facilitate intimacy. My photographs and collages add complexity to …
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Playboys, Single Girls, and Sexual Rebels: Sexual Politics 1950-1965: A Trilogy of Significant Developments.
… and third, the impact of the publications of <em>Playboy</em> magazine and <em>Sex and the Single Girl</em>. These developments mark a shift from an age of idealism that permeated the consciousness of postwar Americans to an age of realism concerning American sexuality.</p>
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"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts
… Owenson's The Wild Irish Girl, J.M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People. Each text comes from a different historical moment, but each of these moments is distinguished by major change, a change so paradigm-shifting as to be worthy of the adjective …
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The New Man And The New Lad: Hegemonic Masculinities In Men's Lifestyle Magazines
… roles, irony, "new sexism" and double voicing. Playboy had a high level of gender certitude, marginal levels of new sexism and irony and low levels of double voicing. Lastly, GQ had relatively high levels of gender certitude but it had very low levels of the other masculinities.
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Trauma Begetting Trauma: Fukú, Masks, and Implicit Forgiveness in the Works of Junot Díaz
… the portrayal of Díaz’s recurring tragic playboy narrator through two short story collections and a novel, making note of the character’s proximity to Díaz’s own life story as presented in “The Silence,” and considering the implicit forgiveness offered to both the character and the author …
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Lonely Monsters
… liaison with Wyatt Sharpe, the villainous playboy. By assuming this persona, Fisher recasts herself as the damsel, the monster, and the heroine.
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Bondmania: Spy Films, American Foreign Policy, and the New Frontier of the 1960s
… magazines from <em>Life</em> to <em>Playboy, </em>promoted the idea of the “Bond lifestyle,” and the perceived benefits that came from modeling one’s life after a superspy. The Bond media figure demonstrates that Cold War militarization took many forms and that characters from pop …
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… Students for a Democratic Society activists, Playboy fashion editors, and Blaxploitation film directors—show that the artistic and political appropriations over the course of the period changed as the images of black men in the media varied, but that they nevertheless had similar consequences. …
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Coverage of alcoholism and the consequences of alcohol use in lay magazines: A content analysis
… the general population, were Cosmopolitan, Playboy, and Reader's Digest. Alcohol is a popular subject from a social perspective demonstrated by the fact that all 36 magazines touched on the subject. More than 20% of articles in the sample made reference to alcohol. Three hundred and …
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Ein Vergleich: Das österreichische und irische ländliche Volksstück des 20. Jahrhunderts als Ausdruck nationaler Selbstdarstellung auf der Bühne
… analyses comprise: John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World (1907) and Karl Schönherr’s Erde (1908) to cover the period of the early 20th century. In the 1930s, a time of political and social conservatism, T. C. Murray’s rather ‘timid’ Michaelmas Eve (1932) and Richard …
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City, suburban and pastoral spaces and the formation of identity in Cold War America (1945-1965)
… The Monsanto House of the Future & the Playboy Mansion), places (New York City, Southern American states and suburbia) texts, and objects (television & cook books). Racial, sexual and youth identities are examined in chapter one, through the street spaces of Ralph Ellisonʼs Invisible Man …
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Matters of verisimilitude: transitional and transnational realisms in Ireland, 1880-1940
… appropriation, arguing that J.M. Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World adopted a deliberately oppositional hybrid mode of comedy and realism in order to resist the cultural nationalism of the literary Revival. I conclude with an analysis of how these instantiations of an Irish realism …
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Shaken, Not Stirred: Espionage, Fantasy, and British Masculinity During the Cold War
<p>This project seeks to define and explore the development of Cold War British masculinity and national identity in response to decolonization. Following World War II, Great Britain experienced a time of political and cultural rebuilding. This project argues that following World War II, Britain …