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‘A Pageant Apart from Politics’: The Opening of the South African Parliament, 1910–2020*

Parliamentary History, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 163-180, February 2025.
Abstract In Westminster‐model institutions of which the South African parliament is one, an opening ceremony takes place annually at the start of a parliamentary session. In the South African context in the early 20th century, it involved a speech by the governor general on behalf of the British monarch, but it is now known as the ‘State of the Nation ...
Rachel Johnson
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The Act of Documenting: Documentary Film in the 21st Century by Brian Winston, Gail Vanstone and Wang Chi

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2019
John Grierson first used the term “documentary” in writing about Robert Flaherty’s Moana (1926), noting that the film, “being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth, has documentary value” (qtd. in Rosenbaum).
Iacob Raluca
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Professor Bajram Preza (1923-2007), a leading academic figure in the Albanian medicine. [PDF]

Sci Prog, 2022
Vyshka G, Mana T.
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‘University is Ill’: Representations of the Italian Student Crisis in 1968 Radar Cinematografica Newsreels

On_Culture, 2017
In 1968, the protest culture of the younger generation reached its peak internationally, and it was at the universities that students ignited the turmoil.
Inês Gamelas
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'Goodwill Ambassador'

VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 2015
The article looks back at the films commissioned and produced by the Dutch governments about their colony in teh East-Indies between 1912 and 1962. The main focus is on the newsreels and documentaries about the colonial war between the Netherlands and ...
Jansen Hendriks, Gerda
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Constructed news: events and rituals of political life

BRAC, 2014
This text invites a reflection on early cinema, focusing on the model which gave rise to actuality film, the precursor of newsreels. Actuality film is understood not only as film which tries to document reality but as a model which purports to capture ...
Ramon Girona, Àngel Quintana
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War Spoliations and Cultural Transfers: The Case Study of Soviet Cinema (1939-1949)

Connexe, 2019
This collection of articles is one of the last achievements of the scientific project called Cinema in the Soviet Union at war, 1939-1949. This project was initiated by Valérie Pozner (CNRS, Arias THALIM) and Alexandre Sumpf (University of Strasburg ...
Eric Aunoble
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Re-aligning Yugoslavia: The Construction of Alterity in the Yugoslav Newsreels

On_Culture, 2017
During the 1960s, Filmske Novosti (the state-run Yugoslav Newsreels) played a key role in the representation of President Josip Broz Tito’s international travels. Tito visited newly independent African and Asian countries in search of political alliances,
Mila Turajlić
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Help Spain by showing films. British film production for humanitarian aid during the Spanish Civil War

Culture & History Digital Journal, 2019
The Spanish Civil War mobilised a wide spectrum of the British population, a mood which materialised in the despatch of humanitarian aid, mainly to republican Spain.
Laura López-Martín
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Otherness in the Context of Martin Luther King’s Assassination in Les Actualités Françaises of 1968

On_Culture, 2017
The concept of alterity is always related to identity, and based on one’s self-perception: the Self influences what we perceive as the Other. Following this idea, the present article explores the hidden Self of French cultural identity in French ...
Nicola Nier
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