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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 purpose of this thesis is to examine 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 …
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American Catholoic Periodical Coverage of the Spanish Civil War
… internationally, Spain in 1936 became 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; …
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Leon Blum: Socialist and French Premier During the Spanish Civil War
<p>This 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 …
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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
My dissertation examines the connections between postmemory and 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 …
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"Bringing it home" New Zealand responses to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
This thesis discusses New 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 …
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Gender and Nation in Basque Narrative During the Spanish Civil War (1936--1939)
The Basque authors whose works I analyze include the following: Insurgents Rafael Garcia Serrano, Maria Rosa Urraca Pastor, Manuel Iribarren, Jacinto Miquelarena, Jose Maria Salaverria and Jorge Claramunt; Republicans Ernestina de Champourcin, Isidro R. Mendieta, Jose Ramon Alonso and Luis …
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The post-conflict odyssey of German communist veterans of the Spanish Civil War, 1939-1989
… hundreds of German communists counted among the international volunteers who suffered a crushing rout in what 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, …
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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
This dissertation 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 …
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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
This thesis will demonstrate that the British leaders 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 …
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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
… 1936 a Times editorial made reference to the 'clamourous 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 …
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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
… María Matute (Barcelona, 1926) represent some of the 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: …
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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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Rete simbolica e dinamiche della memoria nella trilogia della guerra civile di Juan Eduardo Zúñiga
The aim of this PhD thesis is to explore Juan Eduardo Zúñiga’s private and literary path in order to illustrate the author’s intellectual complexity and especially to offer a critical analysis of the most significant part of his production, that is the so called “trilogy of the Spanish Civil …
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