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The din of gunfire: Rethinking the role of sound in World War II newsreels
NECSUS, 2014 French film historian Laurent Véray has famously called World War I ‘the first media war of the twentieth century’. Newsreels, which first appeared in 1910, brought the war to movie theaters across Europe and the U.S., screening combat for those on the ...
Masha Shpolberg
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‘A Sort of Armed Argument’: Ireland's Civil War of Words
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article sets out to contribute to the study of the languages of European civil wars through outlining and analysing the deployment of language as a weapon by the opposing sides of the Irish independence movement that split over the terms of the Anglo‐Irish Treaty of December 1921.
DONAL Ó DRISCEOIL
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
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Spectacle and Spy Stories: The 1954 Royal Commission on Espionage
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Menzies government's 1954 royal commission, established to investigate Soviet espionage in Australia, is well known as the backdrop to the Labor Party split. It saw opposition leader H.V. Evatt's demise and ushered in an almost 20‐year period of Liberal Party governance.
Ebony Nilsson
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Ulster versus Éire: Border Narratives in Cinema Newsreels
Review of Irish Studies in Europe, 2023 Ulster versus Éire (1938) was an American March of Time newsreel exploring the complexities of Irish politics on both sides of the border. It came hot on the heels of an earlier film made by the same company, misleadingly titled Irish Republic (1937 ...
Ciara Chambers
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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Newsreels from 1968 Communist Bulgaria: The Encompassing Us vs. the Different Them
On_Culture, 2017 This study provides an original interpretation of 53 newsreels, produced and projected in the People’s Republic of Bulgaria in the year 1968. Based on a thorough audio-visual analysis, the article shows that newsreels are prime examples for the power of ...
Lyubomir Pozharliev
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(Re-)presentation of Everyday Heroes in German Post-war Newsreels (West-East)
Akademisk Kvarter, 2020 In the post-war period, life was challenging and required people to stand up for the community. In the two German states, however, different views of community were propagated by the media.
Dr Sigrun Lehnert
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