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Author : Paul Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh the Fabulous Fifties written by Paul Harris and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florence Theriault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931503785
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Fabulous Fifties written by Florence Theriault and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne Douglas
Publisher : Piatkus
ISBN 13 : 1405521821
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book As The Years Go By written by Anne Douglas and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced by the post-war boom to leave their shabby Edinburgh tenement for a new bungalow on the outskirts on the city, Madge Gilbride is comforted by the fact that at least she has her family near her. And when her grandsons, Will and Hamish, fall in love with local girls she is delighted. But life is not sailing- especially for Will. In love with the fiery Kate Rossie, he discovers she wants both a husband and a politcal career. Conventional Will makes a choice he will regret for years- a sensible marriage of convenience to the suitable Sara. As she watches her grand-children with their own families joys and troubles, Madge can't help but remember her old tenement home and hope that the new generation of Gilbrides never forget their roots...
Author : Terrie M. Rooney
Publisher : Contemporary Authors
ISBN 13 : 9780787611811
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Terrie M. Rooney and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).
Author : A. Riach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554962
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography written by A. Riach and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-12-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. At the core of the book are discrete literary studies of Scotland and Shakespeare, Walter Scott, R.L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, the modern Scottish Renaissance of the 1920s and more recent cultural and literary phenomena. The central theme of literature and popular 'representation' recontextualises literary analysis in a broader, multi-faceted picture involving all the arts and the changing sense of what 'the popular' might be in a modern nation. New technologies alter forms of cultural production and the book charts a way through these forms, from oral poetry and song to the novel, and includes studies of paintings, classical music, socialist drama, TV, film and comic books. The international context for mass media cultural production is examined as the story of the intrinsic curiosity of the imagination and the intensely local aspect of Scotland's cultural self-representation unfolds.
Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628908
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book American Culture in the 1950s written by Martin Halliwell and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a stimulating account of the dominant cultural forms of 1950s America: fiction and poetry; theatre and performance; film and television; music and radio; and the visual arts. Through detailed commentary and focused case studies of influential texts and events - from Invisible Man to West Side Story, from Disneyland to the Seattle World's Fair, from Rear Window to The Americans - the book examines the way in which modernism and the cold war offer two frames of reference for understanding the trajectory of postwar culture. The two core aims of this volume are to chart the changing complexion of American culture in the years following World War II and to provide readers with a critical investigation of 'the 1950s'. The book provides an intellectual context for approaching 1950s American culture and considers the historical impact of the decade on recent social and cultural developments.
Author : Florence Theriault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781931503853
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Fabulous Fifties and Beyond written by Florence Theriault and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Fenton
Publisher : John Donald
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Scottish Life and Society: Bibliography for Scottish ethnology written by Alexander Fenton and published by John Donald. This book was released on 2000 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major project comprises fourteen thematically arranged volumes. The aim of the Compendium is to examine the interlocking strands of history and traditional culture that go into the making of a national identity, in an up-to-date synthesis of the current state of knowledge. By bringing together information from a variety of sources, the Compendium not only provides a digest of topics, but also points towards areas for new investigation. The Compendium concentrates upon the present and the historical period and does not generally deal with prehistory, although for certain themes, such as the development of agriculture and buildings, early evidence is taken into account. Where appropriate, reference is made to foreign parallels and to the influence on Scotland of the cultures of neighbouring peoples. Scottish influence on the world at large is also taken into account, whether in relation to urban or rural, maritime or land-based topics. Material and non-material aspects of history and tradition are considered equally, at all levels of society, indeed oftentimes focusing on the interaction between people of differing social strata
Author : Graham K. Riach
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837644977
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Short Story after Apartheid written by Graham K. Riach and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Short Story after Apartheid offers the first major study of the anglophone short story in South Africa since apartheid’s end. By focusing on the short story this book complicates models of South African literature dominated by the novel and contributes to a much-needed generic and formalist turn in postcolonial studies. Literary texts are sites of productive struggle between formal and extra-formal concerns, and these brief, fragmentary, elliptical, formally innovative stories offer perspectives that reframe or revise important concerns of post-apartheid literature: the aesthetics of engaged writing, the politics of the past, class and race, the legacies of violence, and the struggle over the land. Through an analysis of key texts from the period by Nadine Gordimer, Ivan Vladislavić, Zoë Wicomb, Phaswane Mpe, and Henrietta Rose-Innes, this book assesses the place of the short story in post-apartheid writing and develops a fuller model of how artworks allow and disallow forms of social thought.
Author : Michael Fry
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330539973
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh written by Michael Fry and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, said that Edinburgh was the most beautiful city in Europe. Like some other great cities it is set on seven hills. But only one of these, Rome, rivals Edinburgh in matching the beauty of its setting with the stateliness of its buildings. Edinbrugh, too, provides the backdrop to much of the dark drama of the Scottish past, from Mary Queen of Scots to Bonnie Prince Charlie and beyond. Michael Fry, who has lived and worked there for nearly forty years, provides a compellingly readable account of this great city, from the earliest times to the present, balancing Edinburgh's cultural, political and social history, and painting a vivid portrait of a city - that like Stevenson's Dr Jekyll - is both dark and light, both dark and light, both 'Auld Reekie' and 'Athens of the North'. ‘Impressive ... in the style of Peter Ackroyd’s history of London’ Magnus Linklator, Spectator 'No one interested in the history of Edinburgh, and indeed Scotland, should be without it’ Allan Massie,Scotsman
Author : Astrid M. Fellner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527505286
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Gender in Popular Culture in the 21st Century written by Astrid M. Fellner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores popular culture representations of gender, offering a rich and accessible discussion of masculinities and femininities in 21st-century popular media. It brings together contributors from various European countries to investigate the workings of gender in contemporary pop culture products in a brave, original, and rigorous way. This volume is both an academic proposal and an exercise of commitment to a serious analysis of some of the media that influence us most in our everyday lives. Representation matters, and the position we take as viewers or consumers during reception matters even more.
Author : Paul Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life in a Scottish Country House written by Paul Harris and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
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Author : Matthew Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501322532
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain written by Matthew Jones and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia about Soviet brainwashing and the nuclear bomb. However, classic films, such as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and It Came from Outer Space (1953), and less familiar productions, such as It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), were regularly exported to countries across the world. The histories of their encounters with foreign audiences have not yet been told. Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain begins this task by recounting the story of 1950s British cinema-goers and the aliens and monsters they watched on the silver screen. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Jones makes an exciting and important intervention by locating American science fiction films alongside their domestic counterparts in their British contexts of release and reception. He offers a radical reassessment of the genre, demonstrating for the first time that in Britain, which was a significant market for and producer of science fiction, these films gave voice to different fears than they did in America. While Americans experienced an economic boom, low immigration and the conferring of statehood on Alaska and Hawaii, Britons worried about economic uncertainty, mass immigration and the dissolution of the Empire. Science Fiction Cinema and 1950s Britain uses these and other differences between the British and American experiences of the 1950s to tell a new history of the decade's science fiction cinema, exploring for the first time the ways in which the genre came to mean something unique to Britons.
Author : Eileen Miller
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh International Festival, 1947-1996 written by Eileen Miller and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Festival has also helped to launch the careers of renowned performers such as Jessye Norman, Claudio Abbado and Daniel Barenboim as well as championing the work of the twentieth-century's most important composers.
Author : baroness Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune St. Helier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memories of Fifty Years written by baroness Susan Mary Elizabeth Stewart-Mackenzie Jeune St. Helier and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : baroness Stewart-Mackenzie St. Helier (Jeune)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Memories of Fifty Years written by baroness Stewart-Mackenzie St. Helier (Jeune) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
