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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"mass culture"”.
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The New Manila Sound: Music and Mass Culture, 1990s and Beyond
… provides the first detailed account of the mass musical culture of the Philippines that originated in the 1990s and continues to be the most popular style of musical entertainment in the country — a scene I dub the New Manila Sound. Through a combination of archival research, musical …
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Vsevolod Meyerhold : modernism, mass culture and the Russian avante garde stage
As early as 1907, Russian director Vsevolod Meyerhold writes of the need to renovate the theater by "means of new forms and new methods of scenic presentation" predicated on the "collective enterprise" of the author, director, actor and audience. The "new forms and new methods" that Meyerhold …
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The socialist sacred: atheism, religion, and mass culture in Romania, 1948-1989
"Drawing on new archival sources, official publications, and oral histories, I challenge the self-portrayal of socialist civilizations as scientific, secular, and the ""other"" of everything religious. Between 1948 and 1989, the Romanian communist regime sought to disenchant believers with a …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… in antebellum New York City. Representations 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 …
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Middlebrow Modernism: Professional Writing, Genre, and the Circulation of Cultural Authority in U.S. Mass Culture, 1913--1932
"This project investigates the role of middlebrow culture in creating an understanding of the term ""modernism"" for its readers. Middlebrow culture consists of those institutions and writers who taught readers the bounds of ""high"" art and literature beginning with the rise of U.S. mass culture …
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Images as tools of social control: an analysis of the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture
… the production of identities in contemporary mass-culture. In employing the term "mass-culture" I wish to refer to a network of interlinked forms which dominate contemporary existence. The mass-media are commonly cited as the major players with respect to mass-culture, entrenching …
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"True Patriots for the Salvation of the Fatherland": Sinarquistas and the Struggle for Post-Revolutionary Mexico
… of conservative Catholics in part by means of a mass culture produced by the movement's elites, such as elaborately staged rituals, canons of national heroes and martyrs, interpretations of national history, and songs. With this propaganda, the Sinarquistas sought to generate popular support for …
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Prior Commitments: Multiply Affiliated Women Writers and Modernism's Shifting Boundaries
… vexed but at times productive relationship with mass culture. Negotiating various avant-garde, traditional, and mass cultural affiliations, Loy, Millay, and Parker created work that troubles the dividing lines often drawn in discussions of modernism between ironic and sentimental, experimental …
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Roberto Bolaño’s 2666, the Funneling Effect of Capitalism, and the Production, Consumption, and Proliferation of Violence for Profit
… women as consumable entertainment in American mass culture.</p>
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Popularizing Egyptian Nationalism: Colloquial Culture and Media Capitalism, 1870-1919
… The principal reason why the Egyptian urban masses are not well represented in the literature is the almost complete neglect of colloquial Egyptian sources. Indeed, I would contend that writing a history of modern Egypt without taking into account colloquial Egyptian sources is, by default, a …
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Understanding personality through preferences in popular mass media: An archetypal approach
… examines individual preferences in popular or mass culture media and what they say about people's psychological processes. For example, knowing that someone likes romantic comedy movies and jazz music arguably paints a more useful picture of personality than saying that one is high in both …
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
… so much refute the difference between elite and mass culture, but instead show how even in their fictionality, those very categories inform the very structure of how we understand the categories of the author, the book, and of modernism itself."
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
… construction of modernist authorship in American culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to create their literary reputations through their success in commercial publishing, and how later critics and scholars …
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De Cortés al Mago de Oz: Estrategias posmodernas en el teatro latinoamericano: 1980-1992
… including the combination of elite and mass culture, the mixture of various literary and nonliterary genres, anachronism, ahistoricity, metafiction, transvestism and parody are used by the playwrights to question the traditional beliefs of history, genre, gender and art. By exploring …
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A Comparison of the Origins, Goals, and Techniques of Storytelling and Literary Journalism.
… communities that offer an alternative to mass media and mass culture. Overlapping techniques include the use of simple slots, the personal "voice" of the narrator, character development through dialogue and scenes, and an emphasis on theme.</p>
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Figurative Sculpture in Paper Clay.
… Staebler, in his treatment of the individual in mass culture, and of Mary Frank, in psychological content and in the use of negative space; similarities with sensuality in Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings; paper clay technique and the work of Rosette Gault; ceramic workshops in Appalachia; …
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Male Visual Dominance Continues: a Global Study of Images of Men and Women in 750 Online Newspapers in 74 Nations.
… in how visual images can dictate stereotypes in mass culture.</p>
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Andrew Allan, Nathan Cohen, and Mavor Moore: Cultural nationalism and the growth of English-Canadian drama, 1945 to 1960.
… for the potential of Canadian drama, and high culture in general, was thwarted by public apathy, an inferiority complex, the failure of the government to act on the recommendations of the Massey Report, and the omnipresence of television which paved the way for the conquest of mass culture and …
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Your Thoughts Projected: Television Comedies, Economic Content, and American Economic Attitudes, 1949-1990
… analysis includes discussion of television as a mass culture medium, the significance of television program ratings and reviews, and the change and continuity found in the forms of economic content within the selected television comedy programs that in turn illustrated the different economic …
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