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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Spanish Civil War"”.
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The Spanish Civil War in cinema
In this thesis I present a case study of the Spanish civil war in cinema. I examine how this period has been represented in cinema through time, in different countries and in various cinematic forms. I reject the postmodern prognosis that the past is a chaotic mass, made sense of through the …
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The Soviet Union and the Spanish Civil War
… the policies behind Soviet intervention in the Spanish Civil War. The U.S.S.R. had two principal foreign policy goals in the late 193O's, goals which were applied to Spain from the outset of the Civil War. These were to stop the spread of Fascism and to develop close relations with Britain and …
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American Catholoic Periodical Coverage of the Spanish Civil War
… the center of European and world attention. The Spanish nation had become fertile soil for the growing ideologies of the twentieth century; the Spanish battlefield had become a testing ground for the world's newest military tactics and equipment; the Spanish Civil War had become a rehearsal for …
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Leon Blum: Socialist and French Premier During the Spanish Civil War
… study will investigate Blum's response to the Spanish Civil War. Contemporaries and later scholars have differed in their assessments of this response.</p> <p>First, Blum's most recent biographers, Colton and Lacouture, maintain that his fear of taking risks prevented him from taking a strong …
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Massachusetts newspapers and the Spanish civil war: a study in bias
Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University
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Postmemory and Gender in Contemporary Spain: Intergenerational Dialogues on the Spanish Civil War
… gender in contemporary novels and films on the Spanish Civil War: Soldados de Salamina (2001; 2003), La mitad del alma (2004); El lápiz del carpintero (1999); and Death in El Valle/La muerte en El Valle (1996). Each of these texts features intergenerational dialogues that explore how the memory …
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"Bringing it home" New Zealand responses to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
… Zealander's attitudes to and involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to 1939. Although distance muted the war's impact, three general divisions of opinion developed in New Zealand - pro-Republicanism, pro-Francoism and "Non-Interventionism". The first Labour Government's "limited …
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Gender and Nation in Basque Narrative During the Spanish Civil War (1936--1939)
… in each chapter a key feminine figure in war narratives: the mother, the girlfriend or fiancee and the nurse. In the second part I examine the relationship between masculinities and nationalism, dedicating one chapter to the soldier and another to the depiction of the enemy.
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The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
… proved their final campaign on behalf of the Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War. In the wake of this defeat, which seemed to cast doubt on the viability of their politics, these German communists embarked on an odyssey that would test their political mettle not only in the immediate …
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Say That We Saw Spain Die: British and American Women Writers and the Spanish Civil War
All of the writers who went to Spain during the Spanish Civil War had to cope with the differentness of Spain, with the fact that it was a foreign experience. How they handled that foreign experience, whether or not they found an entry point where they could cross the border between being an …
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The Spanish Civil war in contemporary Spanish fiction: Soldados de Salamina, La Mula and Los Girasoles Ciegos
… is looking at the representation of the Civil War in three significant texts: Soldados de Salamina, La mula and Los girasoles ciegos. Approaching this representation is important since it is part of a controversial contemporary revival of the interest in the Civil War. Politics and art …
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Newspapers in Wartime: Case-studies in Madrid, Valencia, and Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Republican newspapers attempted to bridge politically and culturally diverse audiences in defense of an unstable democracy attacked by authoritarian forces. Spain is a complex country home to multiple national identities which claim their own region, …
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Interests Eternal and Perpetual: British Foreign Policy and the Royal Navy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1937
… saw the policy of non-intervention during the Spanish Civil War as the best option available under the circumstances, and will also focus on the role of the Royal Navy in carrying out that policy. Unpublished sources include Cabinet and Admiralty papers. Printed sources include the Documents on …
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British perceptions of Spain during the 1930s,and their use in the interpretation of the events of the Spanish Civil War
… partisanship' that had been brought about by the civil war in Spain. In literature since the war this polarisation of opinion has been central to representations of British responses to the conflict. Much attention has focused on the divergent British political responses, and particularly on those …
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Isolation, Loss of Innocence, Gender, and Trauma in Ana María Matute's Primera memoria and Juan Goytisolo's Señas de identidad
… best writers that emerged in 20th century post-civil war Spain as part of the literary group known as the "generation of the 50s." The writers, who came of age during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), evoke similar themes in their works: isolation, loss of innocence, gender identity issues and …
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Modernism's Impossible Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars
… Witness: Peace Testimonies from the Modernist Wars" begins the process of recuperating the lost history of Spanish Civil War pacifism. It studies the ways in which writers and artists employ the aesthetic techniques of modernism, so often ensconced in violence and militarism, to articulate a …
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Symbolic Franco: Spain’s Dictator in the American Conservative Imagination, 1950-1980
<p>In the postwar period in the United States, conservative political ideology shifted its primary focus from isolationism and New Deal opposition to strict anti-communism. The conservatism of the 1920s through the 1940s, under the leadership of Robert Taft, would give way to a more modern …
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