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A Technician's Dream? The Critical Reception of 3-D Films in Britain [PDF]
, 2012 Recent debates about the role of 3-D within cinema (and other media) have contained the traces of a largely anti-stereoscopic agenda that can be traced back to critical responses to 3-D in the 1950s.
Johnston, Keith M.
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L’Année du Maghreb, 2022 The United Kingdom of Libya, established on 24 December 1951 under the crown of Idris al-Sanusi, found its legitimacy in Islam according to the way of the Sanusiyya, a religious Sufi brotherhood founded near Mecca in 1837, which had its centre of ...
Carlotta Marchi
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Nabokov’s Cold War Novels and the Containment of American Sexuality
CoSMO, 2015 This paper focuses on Nabokov's American fiction as novels of the so-called “Long 1950s” and tries to divert traditional debate of Nabokov’s work from its canon of post-modern reception, as centering on language play and upended narrative codes.
Andrea Carosso
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Hooked on a New Technology: The Automation Pioneers in Post-War Norway [PDF]
Modeling, Identification and Control, 2009 This paper presents the initial activities in servo engineering in Norway originating in the early 1950s based on contacts at the Massachusets Institute of Technology.
Stig Kvaal
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New ways of analysing the history of varieties of English - an acoustic analysis of early pop music recordings from Ghana [PDF]
, 2012 I will present first results of an acoustic analysis of Ghanaian “Highlife” songs from the 1950s to 1960s. My results show that vowel subsystems in the 1950s and 1960s show a different kind of variation than in present-day Ghanaian English.
Schmidt, Sebastian
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Football and Film: Comrade President – Center-Forward
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2015 The paper is the first in the planned series of texts on football in films and TV programmes in Yugoslavia (Serbia and Croatia). The film Comrade President – Center-Forward (1960, directed by Žorž Skrigin), labelled as the genre of “film humoresque ...
Ivan Kovačević
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Chanchadas and intermediality: On the musical numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Watson Macedo, 1950)
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2020 This audiovisual essay investigates the intermedial nature of Brazilian film comedies produced during the 1940s and 50s by exploring the musical numbers of Aviso aos navegantes (Calling All Sailors, Watson Macedo, 1950).
Flávia Cesarino Costa, John Gibbs
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The state of police staffing in the Ukrainian SSR in the mid-1950s.
Law and Safety, 2023 A topical and insufficiently studied issue in historical and legal science is the question of structural changes in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and their impact on the state of staffing of the police operating in the Ukrainian SSR in the first ...
V. A. Grechenko
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Draft Genome Sequence of the Salt Water Bacterium Oceanospirillum linum ATCC 11336T [PDF]
, 2017 Oceanospirillum linum ATCC 11336T is an aerobic, bipolar-tufted gammaproteobacterium first isolated in the Long Island Sound in the 1950s. This announcement offers a genome sequence for O. linum ATCC 11336T, which has a predicted genome size of 3,782,189
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Les étudiants congolais à Bruxelles dans les années 1950
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2021 Very few of the first Congolese students in Belgium entered Belgian higher education before the independence of the Republic of the Congo. This can be explained in particular by the general education policy pursued by the Belgian authorities in their ...
Romain Landmeters
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