Mid-20th-century Culture – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 2

Marc Stein
Bicentennial

As the United States marks its semiquincentennial in 2026, renowned historian Marc Stein looks back at the politics of another landmark celebration during a time of striking similarities and surprising di…

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Julia Tischler
Cultivating Race

Cultivating Race explores the rise of scientific knowledge in farming in South Africa and ways in which it informed - or was informed by - questions of race in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Kirk Ellis
They Kill People

A deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns.On May 23, 1934, two borderline inept but ruthless criminals named Clyde Barrow and Bonnie…

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Henry Carroll
The 1990s

An exploration of history, art, film, music and culture in a unique, immersive and visual narrative of a conflicted and momentous decade.As the Cold War ended and a new millennium approached, grunge, hip-…

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David Cottis
How Stage Playwrights Saved the British Cinema, 1930-1956

Examines the film careers and work of British playwrights who worked as screenwriters between 1930-1956.During the period between the 1927 Cinematograph Films Act and the 'new drama' of the 1950s, many Br…

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Daniel Rachel
Don't Look Back in Anger

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, film, football, literature and music…

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Sabur& Yoshida,
Diary of a Farmer at the Foot of Mt. Kanpū

On March 13, 1935, in a small village on the craggy Oga Peninsula in northeastern Japan, an industrious vegetable farmer named Yoshida Saburō began writing a one-year chronicle of his life and community, …

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Mark Hlavacik
Willing Warriors

"How the rise of the culture wars afflicts the politics of education. On August 9, 2022, the Denton Independent School District held a meeting to address complaints about its libraries. Like so many …

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Kevin L Ferguson, Melissa Lenos
Generation X

"This all-in-one resource provides an illuminating overview of Generation X and its enduring impact on American life in such realms as music, television and film, literature, advertising, and societa…

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Alison Fields
Lone Star

A deft history and analysis of John Sayles' 1996 cinematic masterpiece. Alison Fields places Lone Star in a western film framework and emphasizes Lone Star's ability to highlight the conflicts between soc…

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Imelda Whelehan,
Post-War Adaptations

Noted scholar Imelda Whelehan looks at key adaptations released during this period and considers the impact of social change, film consumption and film tastes, as well as noting the most popular genres at…

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John Kapusta
Self-Realization Nation

The story of an unexpected group of performing artists who led one of the most influential artistic movements in contemporary American history.After World War II, personal fulfillment emerged as a definin…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London's Frith Street of a 'seeing by wireless' apparatus that he and many others had been work…

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Paul Mcewan
Cinema's Original Sin

How century-long arguments about The Birth of a Nation have profoundly shaped ideas about film, race, and art.

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It's a Man's World: Men's Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps, Expanded Edition

Expanded edition covering the Adventure Magazine genre of Cold-War masculinity including new material wartime xenophobic American magazine articles and advertisements.

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Whit Frazier Peterson
The Image and the Fire

Racial identity and literary form in the modernist anthologyThe Image and the Fire examines the coterie anthology---a small, outsider literary collection---as a key, yet understudied, instrument of litera…

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Elizabeth Evans,
The Enchanting Kinora

"In The Enchanting Kinora, Elizabeth Evans examines the Kinora in its technological, industrial and socio-cultural context to explore how early attempts to domesticate moving images were configured. …

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Amy Kaplan
Our American Israel

How did a Jewish state come to resonate profoundly with Americans in the twentieth century? Since WWII, Israel's identity has been entangled with America's belief in its own exceptionalism. Turning a crit…

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Cha Cha Au Harem: Orientica - France 1960 - 1964

Product Information In 1963, David Lean's Lawrence of Arabia won seven Oscars. Launching its actors to stardom, including Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif who played Prince Ali Ibn Kharish at the age of th…

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