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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"public entertainment"”.
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Historical Accuracy and the IRA Over 70 Years of Cinema
… of this research is to examine how the Irish Republican Army has been represented in theatrical cinema since the 1930s. The goal is to demonstrate the necessity for historical accuracy in movies produced for public entertainment, which often neglect historical facts and circumstances in …
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A Market for Death: The Use and Abuse of Cadavers in Nineteenth-Century America
… procurement of human bodies for educational and entertainment purposes. In the late eighteenth century, new medical schools sought cadavers for dissection and anatomical study, and public entrepreneurs used bodies and body parts for entertainment in dime museums and traveling shows. While some …
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The Paradoxical Twenty-Fifth: Performance, Race, and Conditional Belonging on the American Imperial Frontier, 1882-1918
… the Civil War. Through nearly eight decades of public entertainment, the Band’s performances were both carefully circumscribed as well as spontaneous, choreographed but with room for improvisation. The Band not only acted as military public relations. It was instrumental in the production of a …
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Contemporary Developments in Cinema Exhibition
… start of this period, cinemagoing as a form of public entertainment entered a long period of decline that was only arrested with the development and growth of multiplex cinemas in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite these changes, the feature film itself remained a culturally and commercially valuable …
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The Formulation of an Adult Dramatic Program for the Division of Recreation and Parks in Henrico County, Virginia
It is hoped that the contents of this thesis will help to provide a course of action through which the dramatic arts program may move closer to the objectives established for it by the HDRP administration. The dramatic arts program for adults, as set forth in the thesis, should create specific …