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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"post war America"”.
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Knitting rebellion: Elizabeth Zimmermann, identity, and craftsmanship in post war America
<p>At mid 20th century, hand knitting in the United States was practiced as a minor and fading chore of the domestic economy, with decreasing pattern publications in national women’s magazines, and the demise of <em>Vogue Knitting Book</em> by the late nineteen-sixties. By 1990, it had rebounded …
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Re-examining the maladjusted text: post-war America, the Hollywood Left and the problem with Film Noir
… anxieties faced by this group in the immediate post-war period. Subsequent conclusions were made that the Hollywood Left was opposed to this generalised categorisation similar to contemporary understandings of film noir. The thesis examines those films now considered as film noir in their …
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"A Story in an Obscure Corner of the Front Page": Patricia Highsmith, Pamela Moore, Joyce Johnson and the Negotiatory Politics of Sexual and Gender Insubordination in Post-War America
… as critics continue to re-examine male-written post-war American novels from new perspectives, a curious lacuna persists in the criticism of the novels written by women in that era. As a result of such scanty inquiry, they are largely absent from literary-critical anthologies on post-war …
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Anti-Imperialism and the Critique of Managerialism in Post- War American Thought, 1939–1995
… between anti- statism and social thought in post-war America. I look at a cluster of intellectuals who were critics of the Cold War, empire, and the managerial state, charting debates around these controversial topics from the late-1930s to the mid-1990s. Managerialism created a triad of new …
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Projective Citizenship--The Reimagining of the Citizen in Post-War American Poetry
… in a projective or "open field" tradition in post-war America: Charles Olson, Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, Susan Howe, and Myung Mi Kim. It considers the way these poets engage, via innovations in poetic form, with conceptions of the citizen and meanings of citizenship at different historical …
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Corporeal Modernity: Shared Concepts in the Work of Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham
… in a shared modernist discourse circulating post-war America, especially in New York. This discourse provided the artists access to common sources of inspiration, such as the writings of Carl Jung, Native American imagery, and Asian cultures. Each of these elements characterizes the work of …
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Life on the margins : the autobiographical fiction of Charles Bukowski
… his experiences as one of the working poor in post war America, and in those depicting his experiences as a writer of the American underground, Bukowski represents himself as both a literary and social outsider. Bukowski expresses an alternative literary aesthetic through his fictional persona, …
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Mike Nichols. Elaine May, Mel Brooks, and Woody Allen's "New Cabaret": underground Jewish humor and the evolution of the new Hollywood aesthetic
… evolution of New Hollywood. It proposes that the American cinematic revolution of the 1960s and 1970s emerged from the cultural disruption caused by Jewish nightclub comedians and their projection of anti-Semitism and Nazi spectacle onto American culture in order to critique it. This is …
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The Collision Of Romanticism And Modernism In Post-World War II American Cinema: A Theoretical Defense Of Intellectual History In The Undergraduate Classroom
<p>The post-World War II era in the United States, which ran from 1945 to 1970, has long been divided into two distinct periods; the late 1940s and 1950s and the 1960s. Out of this separation has come a view of the late 1940s and 1950s as a time dominated by a conservative conformist culture that …
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Ideas as Interiors: Interior Design in the United States 1930-1965
… the first decades of the twentieth century, Americans grappled with the idea of what it meant to be a modern society. As in other periods and places, arts, architecture and design played a significant role in expressing and exploring the issues and concerns of the day. In the period 1930 to …
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Outside Looking In: Stand-Up Comedy, Rebellion, and Jewish Identity in Early Post-World War II America
… Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl, became critical of American Cold War policies and the McCarthyistic culture that loomed over the nation’s society. The new stand-up comics tapped into a growing subculture of beatniks and the younger generation at large that rebelled against the conservative ideals …