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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"the Sixties"”.
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The Sixties - the lived experience
The period commonly referred to as the Sixties, which in fact mainly covered the years between 1967 and 1975, was a time when society’s accepted values were questioned, undermined and sometimes overthrown. In Australia, opposition to the Vietnam War was at the heart of this turmoil. It is commonly …
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Writing the sixties: stardust and golden
The creative work, Stardust and Golden, a phrase taken from Joni Mitchell’s 1969 hit Woodstock, is a novel set in Adelaide in the late 1960s. The story is told by Mark David who, in 2009, recalls this time after an unexpected encounter with an elderly Elizabeth Ryder, the mother of his closest …
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Blowing Warhol's cool: Decoding the sixties work
… dissertation suggests a new understanding of the art of Andy Warhol by analyzing the personal iconography of his images. Warhol's ""hands-off"" painting technique, his apparently random retrieval of received images, as well as his cool public persona mask the works' highly autobiographical …
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The "Sixties" Come to North Texas State University, 1968-1972
North Texas State University and the surrounding Denton community enjoyed a quiet college atmosphere throughout most of the 1960s. With the retirement of President J. C. Matthews in 1968, however, North Texas began witnessing the issues most commonly associated with the turbulent decade, such as …
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The films of Kenneth Anger and the sixties politics of consciousness
This thesis is an enquiry into avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s stated impetus for aesthetic practice, in that his approach is characterised by a desire to elicit a 'transformative’ response from the spectator: “I chose cinema as the mode of personal expression for its potential and capacity …
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"Everybody get together": The sixties counterculture and public space, 1964--1967
… cultural analysts have traditionally considered the sixties counterculture an apolitical phenomenon by historians and other analysts. Yet concentrated examination of the public activities of the counterculture in San Francisco from 1963 to 1967 reveals that they were engaged in the creation of a …
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Frank Stella, Anne Truitt, Robert Ryman, and Abstraction in the Sixties
… examines transformations in painting during the 1960s. Countering repeated pronouncements of its “death” and subsequent diagnoses of its persistence in melancholic form, my dissertation argues that painting was by no means moribund,nor was its ongoing practice a situation of studious …
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Writing for Singers in the Sixties (With Original Composition) the Graduate Manual
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Hippies in the Park: Yosemite and the Counterculture in the Sixties American West
… however, that divide seems nonexistent. Cars slither by, glinting in the sun. The valley echoes with camera clicks. Tourists stream into grocery stores and souvenir shops. The post office sorts mail and the dentist cleans teeth. In short, Yosemite Valley is little different than a small town. The …
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Shifting Ground: Spatial Representations in the Literature of the Sixties Generation in Egypt
This dissertation examines the representation of space in the fiction of seven members of the sixties generation in Egypt. Focusing upon the novels of Jamal al-Ghitani, Muhammad al-Bisati, 'Abd al-Hakim Qasim, Baha' Tahir Yahya Tahir 'Abdallah, Ibrahim Aslan, and Sun'allah Ibrahim, I contend that …
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Demythologizing the sixties; reappraising the British groupie and her relationship to feminism, 1965-1974
The British groupie phenomenon first came to public attention in the 1960s and 1970s. This period saw radical changes in women’s lives, but roles for women were still restricted and historical accounts of the period continue to underplay and devalue their experiences. By examining groupie …
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A hairy predicament: The problem with long hair in the 1960s and 1970s
By the mid-1970s long hair worn by much of the American youth evoked little comment and indeed was considered fashionable. But during much of the previous two decades male hair length was a contentious issue that divided the generations. The struggle over hair in many ways epitomized the sixties …
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<i>Desde el fuego que en mí arde</i>: Performance, literatura y cine afro-latinoamericano producidos por mujeres afrodescendientes en Perú, Cuba y Brasil (1960–2000)
… women from Peru, Cuba, and Brazil after the sixties with emphasis on the most relevant works of Conceição Evaristo, Sara Gómez, Victoria Santa Cruz, and Lucía Charún-Illescas. I focus my research on the crucial role these artists played in the cultural identity formation of Latin America …
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HAIGHT-ASHBURY AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNTERCULTURE MOVEMENT
The City of San Francisco, specifically the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, was the epicenter of the American Counterculture Movement in the mid to late sixties. The social, cultural, and political impact of this movement is vast and widely known. This thesis provides a themed historical narrative of …
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English Periodical Criticism of the Novel From 1845 to 1865: A Search for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty (Victorian)
… 1845 to 1865 revealed a significant change in the nature of the criticism. In the forties, critics showed interest primarily in the moral effects of novels, even of such artistic elements as plot, characterization, and style. By the sixties, these artistic elements were the main force of …
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Memory, time and place in The Ballad of Rosalind Ballingall
The Ballad ofRosalind Ballingall is a recollection of the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the twenty-year-old University of Cape Town drama student into the Knysna forests in 1969. In search of answers to this unsolved case, the film follows Rosalind's footsteps, from the bohemian city …
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Archiving the revolution : claiming history in Cuban literature and film
… both literature and film were responsible for the construction of the Cuban Revolutionary Archive. On one hand, the immediate foundation of the Cuban Film Institute (ICAIC) three months after the triumph of Fidel Castro's 26 of July guerrilla movement in 1959, showed the urgency to establish a …
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A history of 'relevance' : South African psychology in focus
This thesis investigates the historical and discursive contours of the "relevance" debate in South African psychology. It begins by contextualizing the debate, detailing how appeals for "relevance" in the broader discipline proliferated during the sixties and seventies in American, European and …
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Aspects of the fantastic grotesque in the works of V. Mayakovsky, M. Bulgakov and E. Schwartz
The grotesque in Soviet literature ls a field of study whlch has been neglected both in the Soviet Union and the West. In the Soviet Union interest in the grotesque reached a high point in the formalist criticism of the twenties, since the grotesque is one of the most clearly expressed devices of …
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Optimal finite-thrust spacecraft trajectories using direct transcription and nonlinear programming
"A class of methods for the numerical solution of optimal control problems is analyzed and applied to the optimization of finite-thrust spacecraft trajectories. These methods use discrete approximations to the state and control histories, and a discretization of the equations of motion to derive a …
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