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‘Magic Negro’, Saint or Comrade: Representations of Nelson Mandela in Film
Altre Modernità, 2014 “In the late 1980s, Nelson Mandela stood alone against the apartheid state.” This comment taken from the DVD Box set cover of Nelson Mandela: From Freedom to History summarises the approach taken by many of the cinematic and televisual representations of
Roger Bromley
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, 2014 An artist, whichever art branch he is in, tries some ways to focus on the theme that he tries to describe, and expose the strength of art. Peculiar to human, art work naturally includes various human-specific elements. Play is one of these elements.
Guvenc, Ahmet Ozgur
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European Journal of American Studies, 2013 This article argues that the practical jokes running throughout Wilson’s novel Our Nig; or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (1859) are evidence of a deliberate and sophisticated comic strategy that exploits the spectacular body’s potential for ...
Elizabeth Boyle
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, 1954 Cast members at the 1954 Houston, Miss. Jaycees Minstrel Show pose for a photo.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-atkinson-papers/1031/thumbnail ...
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L'Ordinaire des Amériques, 2014 Examining the typescripts and manuscripts of interviews in the Mississippi state archives from the WPA project on former slaves reveals the often heavy-handed and manipulative editing that occurred before the narratives were published.
Ellen Hampton
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, 1954 Cast members at the 1954 Houston, Miss. Jaycees Minstrel Show pose for a photo.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-atkinson-papers/1030/thumbnail ...
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Signification, Objectification, and the Mimetic Uncanny in Claude Debussy’s “Golliwog’s Cakewalk”
Current Musicology, 2010 On October 30, 1905, Emma Bardac gave birth to Claude Debussy’s only child, a daughter named Claude-Emma (1905-1919). Debussy was a doting father; he dedicated his 1908 piano suite entitled “Children’s Corner” to her, and named four of the six movement ...
Elizabeth de Martelly
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Minstrel Remixed: Procedurally Generating Stories
, 2010 We are recreating, investigating, and defining new uses for one of the most influential artificial intelligence projects of the past 25 years: Scott Turner’s Minstrel, which is regarded as a landmark in both the story generation and computational ...
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Anti-Black Racism in British Popular Music (1880-1920)
Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2012 The rapid expansion of the British Empire in the second half of the XIXth century was accompanied by a rise in the diffusion and the legitimacy of racist ideas in Britain.
John Mullen
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