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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Popular press"”.
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Gender, Bolshevism & the Popular Press in Britain, 1916-1921
… This dissertation examines how the British popular press constructed a gendered hegemony using narratives involving women and Bolshevism during the aftermath of the First World War. These narratives were a response to a perceived crisis of gender related to the women’s suffrage movement and …
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The image of the American businessman in the popular press, 1928-1941
… of businessmen as presented in the periodical press.Businessmen are an integral part of American society; however, historical writing has tended to favor political and military exploits. The businessman's ability to influence societal decisions and his role as a major functioning and …
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Coverage of skin cancer prevention in professional journals and the popular press
… health education journals and in the popular press as a means to compare coverage of skin cancer prevention, ozone layer depletion, and suntanning norms. Articles were also reviewed for coverage of individual sun protection measures and coverage of collective skin cancer risk reduction …
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"The Popular Press As Symbolic Interactionism: A Socio-cultural Analysis Of ""ebony,"" 1945-75"
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Representations of Crime, Justice, and Punishment in the Popular Press: A Study of the Illustrated Police News, 1864-1938
… of crime, justice, and punishment in the popular press, with particular focus upon The Illustrated Police News, a weekly newspaper published between 1864 and 1938. The Illustrated Police News, notorious for its sensational reporting of the week’s most exciting and dramatic crimes, has …
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The public and the popular media in China
… through a study of the readership of the Popular Press and through text analysis. How the Popular Press engages with the general public, how the general public reads and judges media messages, and crucially whether the Popular Press could employ an indirect approach working to constitute …
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Popular Magazines in Fascist Italy, 1934 - 1943
The dissertation examines the field of popular magazines in 1930s Italy, by first examining the broad field of magazine production under Fascism and then undertaking three case studies of individual magazines – L’Avventuroso (1934 – 1943), Omnibus (1937 – 1939), and Grazia (1938 –) – in order to …
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An evaluation of the performance of black-influenced and black-owned companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange
From 1995 to 1998 the popular business press regularly reported that black-influenced (BI) and black-owned (BO) companies outperformed the all-share index (ALSI) and the financial and industrial index (F&I). However, popular business press reports were not necessarily based on sound theoretical …
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Mobility Without Mayhem: Disciplining Mobile America Through Safety
… primarily due to suburbanization. Countless popular press articles responded to and helped create this crisis, most notably in women's magazines. They assisted in altering women's relationships to mobility and technology, while also validating women's roles in the newly created suburbs. The …
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Hero in West and East
… Yimou’s Hero (2002) from American and Chinese popular press, this research considers western film theories, as well as the specific Chinese film ecology of the current decade 1999-2009. Reflections on the different readings of the filmic text are discussed with the focus on martial arts film …
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‘Love it or loath it’: a cross-national comparison of tabloid reading experiences in the UK and Germany
… While many academic approaches to genre consider popular newspapers hazardous to the workings of democratic society; this study takes a different approach. Drawing on a range of academic ideas that can largely be associated to the intellectual tradition of ‘cultural studies’, the research …
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A Rhetorical Examination of the Barack Obama Phenomenon in the 2008 Presidential Campaign
… addresses the analytical deficiencies of the popular press in describing and elucidating Obama’s rhetoric during the 2008 Presidential Campaign by closely examining four speeches, their contexts within the campaign, and the commentary surrounding them to give a richer account of what exactly …
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Hep: Jazz Modernisms
… Harlem and its musicians had been troped in the popular press as a counter-modern force (a move critiqued by Rudolph Fisher, Eudora Welty, and others). But Mezz Mezzrow, Cab Calloway, Slim Gaillard, and other musicians published mock-scholarly guides to their talk---guides both about jive, and …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… in mass culture, specifically in the popular press and on minstrel sheet music covers, serve as a window into understanding native-born discourses on Irish Americans. Various elements of the Irish immigrant trope are analyzed, including massive immigration, crowding, disease, poverty, …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
… of smartness that are prevalent and academic and popular press. These constructions frame smart girls as being either Losers, Have-It-All Girls, or Imposters. By conducting semi-structured group interviews with six self-identified smart girls, I explore the question of how smart girls perform …
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'Pyrates' of the Lyceum: Big Pharma, Patents, and Academic Freedom in Neoliberal Times
Academic freedom and freedom of expression are threatened by the corporatised university. As neoliberal policies embed themselves in all aspects of public (if not private) life, freedom of expression and academic freedom are being degraded and denigrated in the university, in the popular press, in …
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Perilous pop: ragtime, jazz and progressive social thought in the early 20th Century Press, 1900-1930.
… century music controversy as it appeared in the popular press and as it articulated the assumptions and contradictions of progressive social thought. Through close textual analysis, the author illustrates the ways in which musical spaces, musical sounds, and dance practices, operated as the …
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Fear of hypnosis: the role of labeling in patients' acceptance of behavioral interventions
… in part, due to negative attitudes shaped by the popular press. The media have often associated hypnosis with magic or the super- natural, overdramatized its effects, and characterized the hypnotized indi- vidual as dependent and vulnerable. It is unclear whether these negative attitudes are in …
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The determinants of mortgage delinquency
… by race and ethnicity as well as reports in the popular press regarding the propensity for rising numbers of homeowners to strategically default motivate a careful study of mortgage delinquency in America post-housing bubble. Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), …
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That's not what I heard : synchronized sound cinema in Montreal 1926-1931
… to the editor and editorials in the Montreal popular press to examine appeals made to audiences, I locate patterns and relationships of moviegoing. This study makes clearer the development of a process through which social and cultural experience is articulated, interpreted and contested all …
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