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“We Are Not Afraid of Either Ice or Clouds!” The Theme of Conquering the Arctic and the ‘Ocean of Air’ in Soviet Newsreel of the 1930s [PDF]

Художественная культура
The article is devoted to the depiction of the theme of the conquest of the Arctic North and the ‘ocean of air’ in the Soviet newsreels of the 1930s.
Karavaev Dmitry L.
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War film as a political problem in Polish press 1945–1949 [PDF]

, 2015
This book was financially supported by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities: project “Cinema: Intercultural Perspective. Western-European Cinema in Poland, Polish Cinema in Western Europe. Mutual Perception of Film Cultures (1918–1939)
Rachwald, Tomasz
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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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‘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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Shooting the War: The Canadian Army Film Unit in the Second World War [PDF]

, 2012
Very little has been written about the Canadian Army Film Unit (CAFU) since the end of the Second World War, despite Jon Farrell’s postulation. There have been a few short newspaper articles related to teh Film Unit and the D-Day footage that made it ...
Klotz, Sarah
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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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(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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For a New and Bright Future: Propaganda in Hungarian Newsreels Between 1945 and 1954

Historia y Memoria de la Educación, 2022
This study firstly emphasize the importance and relevance of analysing newsreels from a history of education aspect, which is a blind spot in the Hungarian research.
Lajos Somogyvári
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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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When should firms watch for cross‐industry competition? A demand‐side perspective

Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 893-941, March 2026.
Abstract Research Summary Research on competitor identification has primarily focused on intra‐industry competition. However, cross‐industry competitive threats are prevalent and consequential. We adopt a consumer‐oriented perspective to examine how consumer perceptions shape de facto competition across industry boundaries.
Ying Li, Samira Reis, Olga M. Khessina
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