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ISBN 13 : 9780900157509
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Refiguring the 50s written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Lindop
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822576422
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book America in the 1950s written by Edmund Lindop and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the important social, political, economic, cultural, and technological events that happened in the United States from 1950 to 1959.
Author : Rian Hughes
Publisher : Goodman/Fiell
ISBN 13 : 9781906863326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Lifestyle Illustration of The 50s written by Rian Hughes and published by Goodman/Fiell. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The determinedly forward-looking optimism of postwar Europe and America was nowhere more evidenced than in the magazine art of the 1950s. In cheery scenes of domestic harmony, of strong-jawed men and winsome women, the illustration arts declared that the wartime years of austerity and uncertainty were at an end and a sunnier, more aspirational culture was taking shape. Featuring over 1,000 beautiful and stylistically diverse illustrations, Lifestyle Illustration of the 50scharts the decade's progression as western economies started to recover and youth culture began to assert itself in the market place. From stylish and urbane young couples in romantic clinches to professional men and women exploring their new-found affluence and economic independence, this book provides expert insight into the evolving styles, fashions, dreams and social mores of the 1950s, through an extensive gallery of rediscovered and restored artwork by some of the decade's finest illustrators. An informative introduction explores the history of this long overlooked art form and orients its impact within wider social trends. Lifestyle Illustration of the 50sprovides a nostalgic trip into a world of midcentury modern living.
Author : William H. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313052956
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The 1950s written by William H. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-04-30 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have the 1950s been overly romanticized? Beneath the calm, conformist exterior, new ideas and attitudes were percolating. This was the decade of McCarthyism, Levittowns, and men in gray flannel suits, but the 1950s also saw bold architectural styles, the rise of paperback novels and the Beat writers, Cinema Scope and film noir, television variety shows, the Golden Age of the automobile, subliminal advertising, fast food, Frisbees, and silly putty. Meanwhile, teens attained a more prominent role in American culture with hot rods, rock 'n' roll, preppies and greasers, and—gasp—juvenile delinquency. At the same time, a new technological threat, the atom bomb, lurked beneath the surface of the postwar decade. This volume presents a nuanced look at a surprisingly complex time in American popular culture.
Author : Maria Fannin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351200097
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Refiguring the Postmaternal written by Maria Fannin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the concept of the ‘postmaternal’ as a response to changing cultural, political and economic conditions for motherhood and responds to Julie Stephens’ contention that gender-neutral feminism has led to a forgetting of the maternal within feminist memory. In Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory, Care (2011) Stephens identifies a significant cultural anxiety about care-giving, nurturing and human dependency she calls ‘postmaternal’ thinking. Stephens argues that maternal forms of care have been rejected in the public sphere and marginalised to the private domain through an elaborate process of cultural forgetting, in turn contributing to the current dominance of a degendered form of feminism. This book argues that refiguring postmaternalism requires opening up the maternal beyond the category of mothers and the nuclear family. The chapters in this edited volume contribute to the field of maternal studies by investigating the connections between maternalism, feminism and neoliberalism through diverse feminist theories, cases and methodologies. We challenge Stephens’ diagnosis of the ‘forgetting’ of certain forms of maternal practices from feminism’s history by highlighting the ongoing contested place of the maternal in feminist scholarship and activism for the last five decades. We argue that the memorializing of the maternal in feminist scholarship needs to reflect its diverse legacies in the analyses of black feminism, socialist feminism and ecofeminism in order to destabilise the association of the maternal with neoliberalism and the depoliticization of feminism. This book was originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist Studies.
Author : Marsha Kinder
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822319382
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (193 download)
Download or read book Refiguring Spain written by Marsha Kinder and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Refiguring Spain, Marsha Kinder has gathered a collection of new essays that explore the central role played by film, television, newspapers, and art museums in redefining Spain's national/cultural identity and its position in the world economy during the post-Franco era. By emphasizing issues of historical recuperation, gender and sexuality, and the marketing of Spain's peaceful political transformation, the contributors demonstrate that Spanish cinema and other forms of Spanish media culture created new national stereotypes and strengthened the nation's place in the global market and on the global stage. These essays consider a diverse array of texts, ranging from recent films by Almodóvar, Saura, Erice, Miró, Bigas Luna, Gutiérrez Aragón, and Eloy de la Iglesia to media coverage of the 1993 elections. Francoist cinema and other popular media are examined in light of strategies used to redefine Spain's cultural identity. The importance of the documentary, the appropriation of Hollywood film, and the significance of gender and sexuality in Spanish cinema are also discussed, as is the discourse of the Spanish media star--whether involving film celebrities like Rita Hayworth and Antonio Banderas or historical figures such as Cervantes. The volume concludes with an investigation of larger issues of government policy in relation to film and media, including a discussion of the financing of Spanish cinema and an exploration of the political dynamics of regional television and art museums. Drawing on a wide range of critical discourses, including feminist, postcolonial, and queer theory, political economy, cultural history, and museum studies, Refiguring Spain is the first comprehensive anthology on Spanish cinema in the English language. Contributors. Peter Besas, Marvin D'Lugo, Selma Reuben Holo, Dona M. Kercher, Marsha Kinder, Jaume Martí-Olivella, Richard Maxwell, Hilary L. Neroni, Paul Julian Smith, Roland B. Tolentino, Stephen Tropiano, Kathleen M. Vernon, Iñaki Zabaleta
Author : The New Yorker Magazine
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448151260
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The New Yorker Book of the 50s written by The New Yorker Magazine and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-10-29 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s are enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and “I Like Ike.” But this was also a complex time, in which the afterglow of Total Victory firmly gave way to Cold War paranoia. A sense of trepidation grew with the Suez Crisis and the H-bomb tests. At the same time, the fifties marked the cultural emergence of extraordinary new energies, like those of Thelonious Monk, Sylvia Plath and Tennessee Williams. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era’s placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new contributions from the magazine’s present all-star line-up of writers, including Jonathan Franzen, Malcolm Gladwell, and Jill Lepore. Here are indelible accounts of the decade’s most exciting players: Truman Capote on Marlon Brando as a pampered young star; Berton Roueché on Jackson Pollock in his first flush of fame. Ernest Hemingway, Emily Post, Bobby Fischer, and Leonard Bernstein are also brought to vivid life in these pages. Among the audacious young writers who began publishing in the fifties was one who would become a stalwart for the magazine for fifty-five years: John Updike. Also featured here are great early works from Philip Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton. Completing the panoply are insightful and entertaining new pieces by present day New Yorker contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes.
Author : Valerie Renegar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000822591
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology written by Valerie Renegar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood. This diverse collection is at the cutting-edge of rhetoric, feminism, and motherhood studies, and the chapters challenge the confines of biological parenting as heteronormative within the neo-liberal nuclear family. The contributors examine, how despite the diversity of parental relationships, many are excluded by the understanding of mothers biologically tied to their children. The volume seeks to expose the underpinnings of biological primacy and argues that 21st-century families and familial circumstances are ill-served by biological ideology. Topics include Re-Imagining Queer Black Motherhood, Chicana Feminist approaches to reproductive justice, the commercialization and medicalization of infertility, and ableism and motherhood. This is a unique and fascinating book suitable for students and scholars in gender studies, sexuality studies, communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies.
Author : Molly Sandling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000492818
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Exploring America in the 1950s written by Molly Sandling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring America in the 1950s: Beneath the Formica is an interdisciplinary humanities unit that looks at literature, art, and music of the 1950s to provide an understanding of how those living through the decade experienced and felt about the world around them. Through the lens of "identity," it explores life in America and the myriad groups that coexisted in harmony and, often, with friction. Cultural icons like Elvis and the Beat poets are examined alongside larger issues such as the Cold War, conformity, and Civil Rights struggles. The unit uses field-tested instructional strategies for language arts and social studies from The College of William and Mary, as well as new strategies, and it includes graphic organizers and other tools for analyzing primary sources. It can be used to complement a social studies or language arts curriculum or as standalone material in a gifted program. Grades 6-8
Author : Peter Simonson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252077059
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Refiguring Mass Communication written by Peter Simonson and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique inquiry into the history and the ongoing moral significance of mass communication as an idea and social form.
Author : Ali Coles
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178450775X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries written by Ali Coles and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to explore and evaluate the potential of museum and gallery spaces and partnerships for art therapy. Showcasing approaches by well-known art therapists, the edited collection contains descriptions of, and reflections on, art therapy in museums and galleries around the globe. Case studies encompass a broad range of client groups, including people with dementia, refugees and clients recovering from substance abuse, exploring the therapeutic skills required to work in these settings. The collection also establishes the context for art therapy in museums and galleries through reviewing key literature and engaging with the latest research, to consider wider perspectives on how these spaces inform therapeutic practice. Offering a comprehensive look at ways in which these locations enable novel and creative therapeutic work, this is an essential book for art therapists, arts and health practitioners and museum professionals.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343520
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 18 in the series Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies is entitled Exile and Gender II: Politics, Education and the Arts. It is edited by Charmian Brinson, Jana Barbora Buresova and Andrea Hammel, and is intended as a companion volume to Volume 17, which focused on literature and the press. This new volume considers the life and work of exiled women politicians, academics and artists, among others, examining the ways – both positive and negative - in which their exile affected them. The sixteen contributions, which are in English or German, set out to throw new light on aspects of gendered relations and experiences of women in exile in Great Britain and Ireland. Contributors are: Jana Barbora Buresova, Rachel Dickson, Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Gisela Holfter, Hadwig Kraeutler, Ulrike Krippner, Dieter Krohn, Gertrud Lenz, Bea Lewkowicz, Sarah MacDougall, John March, Iris Meder, Irene Messenger, Merilyn Moos, Felicitas M. Starr-Egger, Jennifer Taylor, Gaby Weiner.
Author : Judith Forsythe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615945538
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (455 download)
Download or read book It's the 1950s - Let's Pretend We're Happy written by Judith Forsythe and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-27 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the 1950's and Betty Crocker, Jell-O, and TV sitcoms idealizing the perfect family were all the rage. Unfortunately, they really didn't make us happy. Roles for women were defined by making their families happy or appear happy at all costs. Women were expected to be the ideal caring mother, perfect homemaker and obedient wife, carrying out every wish of her husband. Girls were expected to play with dolls, be poised and ladylike, and without complaint be stand-in mothers. This book is a firsthand account of what it was like growing up as a female in middle America during the 1950's and living a completely different reality than what society is telling you should have. Imagine growing up with colorful dysfunctional characters none of whom matched the societal norms of the times. Your father is a verbal bully who evokes fear and silence among the children. Your mother is unable to cope with not meeting the expectations of the perfect marriage, descends into alcoholism, and sudden death. Add to this drama stressful financial conditions where even 5 cent sodas and 15 cent sundaes are a rarity. What would you do? How do you survive? The author found the answers to these questions in the kindness of loving grandparents, her spiritual connection to the land and in breaking free by eloping at 19 to escape this family prison. Forsythe provides a poignant narrative of the coercive expectations women faced during these years in a style that is intimate, lyrical, deeply moving, and at times humorous. Anyone interested in the 1950's, women's roles, and finding personal freedom will find this book a very satisfying read.
Author : Martin Halliwell
Publisher : Twentieth-Century American Cul
ISBN 13 : 9780748618842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (188 download)
Download or read book American Culture in the 1950s written by Martin Halliwell and published by Twentieth-Century American Cul. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 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. Key Features: * Focused case studies featuring key texts, genres, writers, artists and cultural trends* Chronology of 1950s American Culture* Bibliographies for each chapter* over twenty illustrations
Author : Mike Brown
Publisher : Sabrestorm Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780955272332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (723 download)
Download or read book The 1950s Look written by Mike Brown and published by Sabrestorm Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 1950s Look: Recreating the Fashions of the Fifties' takes the reader on a tour of the trends and signature styles of the era - from Audrey Hepburn chic to high school prom queen. Over 144 pages, with more than 300 full colour photographs and pictures, readers can learn about the new synthetic wonder fabrics, the Trapeze dress and the Teddy Boys' quiff, pedal pushers and drain pipe trousers"--Publisher's description.
Author : James Eli Shiffer
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452950199
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book The King of Skid Row written by James Eli Shiffer and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City blue laws drove the liquor trade and its customers—hard-drinking lumberjacks, pensioners, farmhands, and railroad workers—into the oldest quarter of Minneapolis. In the fifty-cent-a-night flophouses of the city’s Gateway District, they slept in cubicles with ceilings of chicken wire. In rescue missions, preachers and nuns tried to save their souls. Sociology researchers posing as vagrants studied them. And in their midst John Bacich, aka Johnny Rex, who owned a bar, a liquor store, and a cage hotel, documented the gritty neighborhood’s last days through photographs and film of his clientele. The King of Skid Row follows Johnny Rex into this vanished world that once thrived in the heart of Minneapolis. Drawing on hours of interviews conducted in the three years before Bacich’s death in 2012, James Eli Shiffer brings to life the eccentric characters and strange events of an American skid row. Supplemented with archival and newspaper research and his own photographs, Bacich’s stories re-create the violent, alcohol-soaked history of a city best known for its clean, progressive self-image. His life captures the seamy, richly colorful side of the city swept away by a massive urban renewal project in the early 1960s and gives us, in a glimpse of those bygone days, one of Minneapolis’s most intriguing figures—spinning some of its most enduring and enthralling tales.
Author : Paula Powell
Publisher : J G Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572151727
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (517 download)
Download or read book 50's and 60's Style written by Paula Powell and published by J G Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the styles of the 1950s and 1960s in their social, economic and cultural contexts.
