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From:Southwest Review (Vol. 79, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe automobiles of the 1950s have been regarded with a reverence that represents a pagan adulation of machinery, with actor James Dean, who died in an automobile crash in 1955, fulfilling the role of martyr. These 'dream...
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From:Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies (Vol. 22, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe March 18, 1991 issue of People magazine featured a cover story on Sandra Dee. The full head-shot photo showed a beautiful, seemingly ageless woman, while the headline copy read, "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee." The...
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From:The Antioch Review (Vol. 69, Issue 2)For thirteen months, more than fifty years ago, I served with the American Army at a small post in western France. It was a muddy installation, an enclave of Quonset huts and jerrybuilt tarpaper shacks and wooden supply...
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From:Journeys (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Early postwar Czech travel writing was mainly concerned with representations of countries from the newly emerging Soviet Bloc and former European colonies in the developing world. In this way, travel writing...
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedWhat I am afraid of is that some critic will begin matching what General Sarnoff has predicted for the cultural future of television against what NBC is currently showing. That would be most embarrassing for all...
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From:French Politics, Culture and Society (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The Paris police faced considerable problems in trying to identify migrant workers who, during the Algerian War, provided a support base for the Front de liberation nationale. In order to overcome the...
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From:CineActionJapan in the 1950s was a period of accelerated social transformation as a new generation came of age in the wake of the seven-year American occupation. The so-called "golden age" of Japanese cinema corresponds to a time...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article examines the relationship between radical poetics and politics under the Brazilian dictatorship. It focuses on Ferreira Gullar's poetry from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s, alongside his critical...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 133, Issue 4)It is one of the foundational myths of contemporary liberalism: the idea that American culture in the 1950s was not only stifling in its banality but a subtle form of fascism that constituted a danger to the Republic....
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From:Novels for StudentsCritical praise for the success of Go Tell It On The Mountain has not faded since 1953, when the book was first published. One of the earliest reviews, by J. Saunders Redding in The New York Herald Tribune Book Review...
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From:Extrapolation (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn 1999 Elizabeth Cummins published an article in these pages, "American SF, 1940s-1950s: Where's the book? The New York Nexus." This article is a response to Cummins. (1) The short answer to her question, "Where's the...
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From:The American Scholar (Vol. 80, Issue 4)If the 1950s and '60s belonged to Jack Kerouac, then the '60s and '70s belonged to Ken Kesey. Both of them were my clients, and I liked and admired each of them. Although they differed in age, personality, and writing...
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From:Journal of Austrian Studies (Vol. 48, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDer Fokus des folgenden Beitrags liegt auf den materiellen Grundlagen der literarischen Produktion in den Jahren nach 1945: Darauf, wie sich den Verteilungskampfen um Papier, Verlage, Zeitschriften und literarischen...
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From:Cinema Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Theatrically released in 1953, the church-funded biopic Martin Luther (Irving Pichel) was designed to exceed the narrow confines of the Christian film market and successfully compete with Hollywood products....
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From:Velvet Light TrapPeer-ReviewedON DECEMBER 12, 1950, A TRILOGY OF FOREIGN movies entitled Ways of Love opened at the Paris Theatre in New York City. The trilogy contained Jean Renoir's A Day in the Country, Roberto Rossellini's The Miracle, and...
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From:Australian Literary Studies (Vol. 23, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIN 1959 in Tasmania, an unknown poet called Gwen Harwood started a guerilla war on incompetent literary editors by sending out her poems under male pseudonyms. As she had suspected, poems by 'Walter Lehmann' and...
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From:Novels for StudentsThe initial mixed response to The Natural focused on the novel's interplay of realism and fantasy. Harry Sylvester in his review in the New York Times insists the work is "an unusually fine novel. . . . What [Malamud]...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 19, Issue 3)The erosion of authority and the freedom to make personal choices are the hallmarks of society in the 1990s. It has been deluged with a set of mixed-up values. However, people will agree that they have been liberated...
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From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 13, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIN RECENT YEARS HISTORIANS and social scientists have engaged in extensive research on the role that medical, legal, and moral discourses have played in shaping the social politics of sexual health and the regulation of...
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From:Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania (Vol. 177, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedPutu Shanty was one of Bali's leading intellectuals in the middle of the twentieth century, but he has been effaced from official publications identifying cultural leaders of the island. His short stories, written in a...