Mid-20th-century Culture – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 3

John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Popular memory holds that television in Britain began with the 1953 Coronation. But as Magic Rays of Light reveals, extensive programming throughout the 1930s was creatively rich, complex and excitingly i…

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John Wyver
Magic Rays of Light

Magic Rays of Light is an original and ambitious history of the largely unknown early years of television in Britain. A detailed cultural study of the first demonstrations, of the extensive experimental b…

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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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Tabassum Ruhi Khan
Downton Abbey

This book examines Downton Abbey's dramatic narrative and visual aesthetics to interrogate centrality of power and privilege in narrative structuring and to understand audiences' uncritical acceptance of …

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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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Ori Levin
Celluloid Babel

Traces the intellectual history of cinema's aspiration to create a universal language, examining how this vision has been articulated in both writings and films.Celluloid Babel offers a transnational inte…

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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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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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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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John Wells,
American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1960s Volume Two

"The American Comic Book Chronicles continues its ambitious series of full-color hardcovers where TwoMorrows' top authors document every decade of comic book history from the 1940s to today! John Wel…

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Decolonizing Knowledge

Interdisciplinary scholars rethink strategies for moving contemporary decolonization politics forward by revisiting the writings of the mid-20th century anti-colonial movements' leading intellectuals.

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Margot Canaday
Queer Career

A masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as "straight spaces" in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited at…

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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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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Ahmad Shokr
Harvests of Liberation

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and…

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Moira Fitzgibbons
Drawn by the River

Places comics studies in lively dialogue with landscape art and regional studies to shed new light on the Hudson River Valley as an artistic, social, cultural, and natural environment.Drawn by the River e…

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Kim Luperi, Danny Reid
Pre-Code Essentials

From Turner Classic Movies and the creators of @precodedotcom, this is the essential film-by-film guide to must-see cinema from the pre-Code era---a wild and wonderful time in Hollywood history before str…

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Marie Sophie Beckmann
Films That Spill

Films That Spill takes up a previously understudied moment in 1980s underground culture in New York City called Cinema of Transgression, offering both a microhistory of the intermingling art, music, perfo…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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Francisco E Robles
Coalition Literature

"In a series of incisive readings, Francisco E. Robles provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusi…

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